‘the same kid who got stopped on the freeway is now the ag of the united states’
Attorney General Eric Holder in Ferguson today
(Excerpts from his remarks, as provided by the Justice Department)
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I understand that mistrust.
I am the Attorney General of the United States, but I am also a black man. …I think about my time in Georgetown — a nice neighborhood of Washington — and I am running to a picture at about 8 o’clock at night. I am running with my cousin.
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Now my cousin started mouthing off; I’m like, ‘This is not where we want to go. Keep quiet.’
I’m angry and upset.
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At the time that he stopped me, I was a federal prosecutor. I wasn’t a kid. I was a federal prosecutor.
I worked at the United States Department of Justice.
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This country is capable of change.
But change doesn’t happen by itself.”
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/08/20/the-same-kid-who-got-stopped-on-the-freeway-is-now-the-ag-of-the-united-states/
