jimnyc
10-23-2015, 06:39 PM
Based on the bold, it makes me wonder. If the goal is to address lives that are being lost, lives that matter - why do they continually ignore places like Chicago, Detroit & other places where blacks are killing other blacks in record numbers? Why is there only concern, protests and such for black lives lost at the hands of a white person/cop? Do black lives otherwise not matter?
I guess Obama doesn't care much for those dying in record numbers in his old hood?
This is ALL about agendas and very, very little to do with actual concern for "black lives". I think some folks would rather see a race issues than they would see black lives saved.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defending the Black Lives Matter movement, President Barack Obama said Thursday the protests are giving voice to a problem happening only in African-American communities, adding, "We, as a society, particularly given our history, have to take this seriously."
Obama said the movement, which sprung up after the deaths of unarmed black men in Florida, Missouri and elsewhere, quickly came to be viewed as being opposed to police and suggesting that other people's lives don't matter. Opponents have countered that "all lives matter."
At the conclusion of a White House forum on criminal justice, Obama said he wanted to make a final point about the nexus of race and the criminal justice system before launching into his defense of the movement.
"I think everybody understands all lives matter," Obama said. "I think the reason that the organizers used the phrase 'Black Lives Matter' was not because they were suggesting nobody else's lives matter. Rather, what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that's happening in the African-American community that's not happening in other communities.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_BLACK_LIVES_MATTER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-22-17-51-28
I guess Obama doesn't care much for those dying in record numbers in his old hood?
This is ALL about agendas and very, very little to do with actual concern for "black lives". I think some folks would rather see a race issues than they would see black lives saved.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defending the Black Lives Matter movement, President Barack Obama said Thursday the protests are giving voice to a problem happening only in African-American communities, adding, "We, as a society, particularly given our history, have to take this seriously."
Obama said the movement, which sprung up after the deaths of unarmed black men in Florida, Missouri and elsewhere, quickly came to be viewed as being opposed to police and suggesting that other people's lives don't matter. Opponents have countered that "all lives matter."
At the conclusion of a White House forum on criminal justice, Obama said he wanted to make a final point about the nexus of race and the criminal justice system before launching into his defense of the movement.
"I think everybody understands all lives matter," Obama said. "I think the reason that the organizers used the phrase 'Black Lives Matter' was not because they were suggesting nobody else's lives matter. Rather, what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that's happening in the African-American community that's not happening in other communities.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_BLACK_LIVES_MATTER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-22-17-51-28