“Well, look, obviously there was a tragedy in New York. I said at the time, without benefit of all the facts before me, that it looked like a possible case of excessive force. The judge has made his ruling, and we’re a nation of laws, so we respect the verdict that came down,”
“The most important thing for people who are concerned about that shooting is to figure out how do we come together and assure those kinds of tragedies don’t happen again,” he continued. … “Resorting to violence to express displeasure over a verdict is something that is completely unacceptable and counterproductive.”
What the hell was Barack Obama thinking when he said this? Sean Bell was assassinated by the NYPD on his wedding day and they got off scott free. They weren’t identifiable as police officers and they fired over 50 rounds at a man who wasn’t armed! First of all, who the hell was on this jury, the L.A.P.D? Black folks have the right to be upset and to express their anger at this injustice because that’s exactly what this is…… Mr. Obama, I know you don’t want to seem like one of the members of Public Enemy or The Nation of Islam but referring to the emotions of black people as displeasure over the murder of a black man by the police is utterly ridiculous. What he should have done was take this time to speak about the injustices that ”people” in general still face today afterall he is a black man in America so he would definitely know about that- hell he is facing it in his own campaign. We know that he doesn’t want to appear as a black extremist or a black man with a chip on his shoulder but at the same time, HE SHOULDN’T TRY TO NOT BE BLACK. Nobody was asking him to protest or point fingers but fair is fair……and to make these comments when the only thing that happened was a peaceful protest that Al Sharpton organized; makes his statement even more ludicrous. Yeah, he tried to choose his words carefully but even HE said that it looked like excessive force……..He is a presidential candidate so I don’t expect him to jump up and speak out with vigor on social injustice for minority folks but damn it don’t make light of what we go through, by calling anger, outrage, and disgust- “displeasure”. Shit dealing with over 400 years of social, racial, and economic injustice is a little bit more than unpleasant, don’t you think, Senator Obama? Just ask those 3 Black guys in Philly were their police-gifted ass whoopings- unpleasant? …………






May 10th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
lol well you know after Hilary started playing the race card, he had to say SOMETHING to appeal to the white people who hilary is telling to gang up on the black guy (himself). You know the black guy trying to make it has to act like the rest are animals to look good. lol Hey, at least he’s not Clarence Thomas!
May 11th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Clarence Thomas is black? Lmao the clinton’s are blacker! Rotflmao obama just needs to keep replaying Toni morrison’s the clinton’s are the first black folks in the white speech! Lmao