ME TOO!!! Obama on Eric Garner: 'I'm not interested in talk, I'm interested in action.'

[kpete]

“This is an issue that we’ve been dealing with for too long...” Obama said. “I’m not interested in talk, I’m interested in action. I’m absolutely committed as president of the United States” to ensure equality before the law.

“We are not going to let up until we see a strengthening of the trust and a strengthening of the accountability” in the relationship between communities and law enforcement. He says law enforcement can only work “if everybody has confidence in the system.”

He calls discrimination “an American problem, and not just a black problem and not just a native American problem.”

“When anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, that’s a problem, and it’s my job as president to try to solve it.”


http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2014/dec/03/eric-garner-staten-island-chokehold-death#block-547f83e6e4b0492ecd0a1fdb

[True Blue Door]

1. And if doesn't personally 100% solve it nationwide in the next two weeks

he will be a bitter, pathetic failure and a sellout. /half the left-wing bloggers on the internet

[kpete]

3. some of us old hippies

have more patience than you might think....


peace, love & tolerance,
(even if it is not in MY lifetime),
kp

[riqster]

7. Yes, because we freaks were right.

[True Blue Door]

9. I'm more aligned with Mario Savio.

He organized the free speech movement at Berkeley that spread nationwide, then bemoaned the crowd of incoherent nincompoops who descended on the movement and turned it an unfocused counterculture circus that the rest of society could easily dismiss.

Some people have a message.
Some people just have a fetish.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Somebody sounds bitter already.

[True Blue Door]

5. Really, who?

[Cha]

2. thank you, kpete

[upaloopa]

6. Go out and get a copy of the movie "Mississippi Burning" it is relevant to todays cop killings

A few lines from the movie:

Eulogist: They want me to say, "Let us not forget that two white boys also died helping negros help themselves." They want me to say, "We mourn with the mothers of these two white boys." But the state of Mississippi won't even allow these white boys to be buried in the same cemetary as this

[points to coffin]

Eulogist: negro boy. I say, "I have no more love to give! I have only anger in my heart today, and I want you to be angry with me! That I am sick and I am tired, and I want you to be sick and tired with me! I-I-I am sick and tired of going to the funerals of black men who have been murdered by white men! And I-I am sick and tired of the people of this counrty who continue to allow these things to happen!" What is an unalienable right if you are a negro? What does it mean, Equal Treatment under the law? What-what does it mean, Liberty and justice for all? Now I say to these people, "Look at the face of this young man, and you will see the face of a black man. But if you look at the blood shed, it is red! It is like yours! It is JUST... LIKE... YOURS!"

[Bandit]

8. Listen to the wind blow....

Why is Clive Bundy still walking around a free man?