NEW YORK TIMES: After days of angry protests and mounting public pressure, President Obama summoned five of his closest advisers to the Oval Office on Thursday evening. It was time, he told them, for him to speak to the nation about the Trayvon Martin verdict, and he had a pretty good idea what he wanted to say.
For the next 15 minutes, according to a senior aide, Mr. Obama spoke without interruption, laying out his message of why the not-guilty ruling had caused such pain among African-Americans, particularly young black men accustomed to arousing the kind of suspicion that led to the shooting death of Mr. Martin in a gated Florida neighborhood.
On Friday, reading an unusually personal, handwritten statement, Mr. Obama summed up his views with a single line: “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.”… (more)
EDITOR: The president posed the question of what if Trayvon Martin had been 21 and armed and “stood his ground” because he felt threated by being followed. It was though the president was sitting in the living room, formulating his thoughts as he went along. Truly memorable. Too bad so many are blinded with political ideology and racism to appreciate this unique human being.
What a tragic waste for this country that so many impediments have kept him from doing all he could to innovate and solve complex problems.
“Too bad so many are blindsided with political ideology and racism”…………………that gate swings both ways!!! Obama is NOT the greatest president, other than being the most divisive since Buchanon.