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Originally Posted by PIMking
My fiance is an UBER Obama fan, she is working on her BA in Social Work (going to pharmacy school) and was just FURIOUS with what Obama said today. She stated that this is something that that guy needs to shut up about and the only thing he is doing is pouring fuel on the racial fire.
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I disagree on this.
Regardless of whether Zimmerman did anything illegal, the profiling aspect is going to cause a lot of rage, and people want to feel vindicated. They won't get that through the court system, and rightfully so. Acknowledgement by the President, however, can go a long way.
Obama isn't telling people to kill whitey, he's telling people to direct their energy at fixing some of the underlying societal problems that led to this situation.
By acknowledging these issues, Obama can difuse things and hopefully avoid riots and other civil unrest. A lot of the time anger is about not being acknowledged.