"Pink Mass" has made WBC founder's mom GAY in afterlife, Satanists claim President Barack Obama, making his first public remarks on the George Zimmerman acquittal, said today that many African-Americans believe that “both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different” if Trayvon Martin had been white.
“You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son,” Obama said somberly during a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room. “Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.”
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In searingly personal terms, Obama described his experience with race-based prejudice:
“There are very few African-American men who haven’t had
the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me -- at least before I was a senator,” he said.
“There are very few African-Americans who haven’t had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often.”
So “the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history,” judging “what happened one night in Florida” through that lens, he said.
Obama seemed to pour cold water on prospects that a Justice Department review of the case would lead to federal charges against Zimmerman.
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