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user-inactivated  ·  4155 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Obama Explains Black America To White America : It's All Politics : NPR

The "unimpressed" link is entitled: Obama tries to break it to the left that the DOJ’s not going to prosecute Zimmerman

I think that everyone has co-opted Trayvon Martin's death. At this point Trayvon is become Brahma with many faces reciting not the Vedas but the excuses of his defenders, the excuses of his tormenter, the cries of his family and the war cries of his foes.

He own voice stolen while everyone around him uses his corpse for a puppet-show morality play with no end ... only a distraction for an audience divided amongst ourselves.





thenewgreen  ·  4155 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I think that everyone has co-opted Trayvon Martin's death.
Oh, absolutely. But, it's a good springboard for conversations that are worth having. That said, I do think that the "unimpressed" link is spot on, the DOJ is not going to pursue anything further and Obama had to somehow appease the left. That is why the speech occurred.

I will be shocked the day that Obama does something like this for the sake of doing it rather than in response to a political pressure.