minusmanhattan:
“You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
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President Obama remarking in personal terms on the shooting and killing of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch captain in Florida. Video and full article here.
I don’t get it. Why does America still need an election this year when the current president says meaningful things like this while the other candidates say stupid things like “tell the plants how dangerous CO2 is” and “I understand how the blacks feel because my family owned slaves last time”?