Obama said black Americans feel a particular pain about Martin’s - TopicsExpress



          

Obama said black Americans feel a particular pain about Martin’s shooting death because they are “looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.” Zimmerman was cleared of criminal charges in Martin’s death, but the Justice Department is exploring whether he violated the teen’s civil rights. Obama spoke very personally about his own experiences growing up as a black man, saying, “There are very few African American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were in a department store. And that includes me.”
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 04:37:16 +0000

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