Kimi;4182318 said:
doubletee;4182291 said:
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redhandedbandit;4182276 said:
everybody wants to jump on the kony bandwagon but this shit is popping off in our own backyards if obama doesnt speak on it he lost a vote
He didnt speak on the black girl who was raped,beaten, set on fire and killed by those army men either so.........
Obama can't speak out on crimes like this just because he's Black.
Like I know we want him to, but that's playing the race card within himself. He can't just speak out on the injustices happening to Black people before any other race of people. :-??
President Barack Obama says police in Cambridge, Mass., acted "stupidly" this week when they arrested Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, someone they knew was in his own home.
In the final question of a live prime time news conference this evening that largely dealt with health care, Obama was asked about the Gates case.
"My understanding is that Professor Gates then shows his I.D. to show that this is his house and, at that point, he gets arrested for disorderly conduct, charges which are later dropped," Obama said.
Police dispute the extent of Gates' cooperation, saying he didn't initially provide identification when asked and berated the police.
However, Obama continued, "I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that [Gates case]. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact."