The FBI says it wasn’t about race, but the president disagrees. President Obama surprised reporters by showing up at the daily White House press briefing to comment on the George Zimmerman case and made some bold assertions as well as candid admissions. Obama said Trayvon Martin might still be alive if he 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.” That suggests Zimmerman racially profiled Martin, but that’s not what the FBI or the lead detective in the case found. After interviewing almost three dozen people, the FBI concluded racial bias was not a motivating factor in the shooting death of Martin. Lead Sanford Det. Chris Serino told agents Zimmerman profiled Martin because of what he was wearing and the circumstances, not because of race. But almost all of Obama’s comments were on race. “There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me,” the president said. “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. Read more at wnd/2013/07/obama-says-its-about-race/#Bt65gm96qgku0K8e.99
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:15:14 +0000
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