03-22-2019, 01:55 PM
(03-19-2019, 09:23 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Obama stating that a person involved in an unsettled criminal case could be "his son" is divisive and stereotypical.
Really? How exactly were those comments "divisive". Seems like they are appealing to a universal quality of parenthood to me.
“I can only imagine what these parents are going through,” he said. “And I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this, and that everybody pulls together — federal, state and local — to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened.”
“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” Obama said. “When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids.”
How would any white person be offended by that? The only ones that were offended were the ones who let the right wing echo chamber tell them when to be offended. For example calling the alleged victim of a criminal investigation "a person involved in an unsettled criminal case".
