Obama also suggested that the outcome of the case could have been different if Martin were white. “If a white male teen would have been involved in this scenario,” he said, “both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.”
There is zero evidence that this had anything to do with race. Zimmerman was investigated by the FBI, police and the prosecutors, and none found any evidence to support that idea.
The issue was an out of control teenager who decided to attack a “creepy ass cracka“. Obama is the person who brought race into it.
The president also nodded to the Justice Department investigation which is probing whether or not to bring federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman. But Obama also urged state and local officials to review their own procedures to see how to improve their law enforcement practices.
The fifth amendment prohibits this
He also called for a review of so-called “Stand Your Ground” laws, a central issue in the case.
It was not brought up during the case.
“If Trayvon Martin was of age and was armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?” Obama asked. “If the answer to that question is at least ambiguous, then it seems to me that we should examine those laws.”
Martin was suspended from school for drug abuse and theft. He never could have gotten a CCW license. He would have been extremely dangerous with a gun. There was no indication that Zimmerman threatened Martin any way. Zimmerman was waiting for the police to arrive when he was attacked.
And though Obama sidestepped the idea of demanding a new, national conversation on race — and while he said that racism was far from eliminated — the president ended on an upbeat moment, expressing his view that race relations are “getting better.
Obama: ‘Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago’ – NBC Politics
Obama has sent race relations backwards by 50 years with his constant race baiting. There was no evidence presented that this case had anything to do with race. Just like when he accused the Cambridge police of racism. Why is Obama talking about it?
…because he has to open his mouth about everything….he has no class, and no idea of what he represents….and he’s acting exactly like I thought he would
Exactly, started with the beer summit
He got caught with the responsibility for hands in the cookie-jar. NSA, IRS, DOJ & journalist’s phone info, IRS and Tea-parties, the Bengahzi episode, etc. etc.
Like any politician / preacher caught doing wrong, Oh-Bomb-Ya’s instinctive reaction is to point elsewhere and scream “Look what’s happening over there!!!”
Race relations arson is just another arrow in the Oh-Bomb-Ya quiver.
I just found this regarding crime in the US. You have got to love their thought processes.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/07/12/murder-mystery-is-lead-ban-reason-for-fewer-killings/?intcmp=obnetwork
Skeeter is playing the race card as are the rest calling to investigate the stand your ground laws.
Without racism, Skeeter never would have been elected dog catcher.
The whole community organizer thing was a bit of a head scratcher when first announced since hardly anyone knew what that was. Now it is clear that when you hire a community organizer, you get a community organizer.
Stand Your Ground, in Fla., in used by blacks in a 1/3 or cases and successfully 55% of the time. Because of ignorance, they are arguing against their own best interests.
Obama’s only interest is himself.
“Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama”.
– Thomas Sowell
Obombster and crew were quite upset that the media coverage didn’t cause the mass disruption and total chaos that Valerie promised it would.
Low life pieces of shit are found in all classes of society, regardless of race, religion or upbringing, but when an agitator is brought up to hate a capitalist society, this is what we get!
When I saw the Obama speech, I got the impression he was sick. As in disturbed. Manufacturing a race issue where none exists. A poor excuse for a President.*
*Though he could have just been reading what was on the teleprompter.
“…President Barack Obama on Friday jumped into the debate over the acquittal of the man who killed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, declaring that Martin “could have been me, 35 years ago” and urging Americans to understand the pain blacks felt over the case…”
Wow. The president thinks that “Trayvon could have been me, 35 years ago”
And any one of the millions of illegal aliens could be the next Zimmerman.
If the black community was really concerned about Hispanics, they should be lining the border.
I would like to personally thank President Obama for proving today that he actually DID pay attention all those years when Jeremiah Wright was his “pastor”.
Both Zimmerman and Obama have one white parent. What makes Zimmerman different from Obama? Zimmerman was a democrat who voted for Obama so are they saying that democrats are racist?
Maybe the worst President ever. Maybe the worst 2 consecutive Presidents ever. Maybe the worst 4 consecutive Presidents ever. No wonder the country is in such a mess.
Truly the worst president ever. What president has said something this divisive and inflammatory? I can’t imagine any previous president being this irresponsible while in the office of president. Every statement is calculated to keep his sheep in the fold and to paint the political opposition as greedy/racist/etc. Is there anything he wouldn’t say to keep his 47%? Let’s hope BO is not tested on this in the rest of his term.
“Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.” – Barrack Obama
That’s just funny. Can you envision our first female president attacking George Zimmerman? BHO has delusions of badass.
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