Someone cares more about me than the thread again.
Shocking.
Obama Reminds That Racism Must Be Tackled
Monday, 29 Jun 2015 11:23 AM
Barack Obama hadn't dug so deep, found so much, and been so moving on the tender subject of race since his historic speech to explain his relationship to his controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, during his first presidential campaign in 2007. On Friday, the president reminded us both how much and how little American society has evolved in the intervening years.
Obama came to Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church to eulogize his friend, the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was gunned down along with eight others ranging in age from 7 to 87 as he led Bible study one night last week.
The killer was a punk kid who sat for an hour beside the people he would kill for worshiping while black. He was a white supremacist who inhaled hate propaganda and blamed blacks for everything that was wrong in his life.
Dylann Roof, the alleged killer, the president said, thought he would "incite fear and recrimination." He "could have never anticipated the way the families of the fallen would respond when they saw him in court, in the midst of unspeakable grief, with words of forgiveness." Nor could Roof "imagine how Charleston, the state and the country would react with revulsion but also with generosity and a thoughtful introspection we so rarely see in public life."
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http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/652663