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In reply to the discussion: President Obama and the Michael Brown case [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,530 posts)Robert Kennedy was never the President - he was the Attorney General just like Eric Holder is now. And I expect that Holder, who is also black (and heavily disparaged here on DU) and is married to Vivian Malone's sister, is going to do some of this. And guess what? Sadly, thousands of black men and women and even children, are brutalized by the police daily. Should he be expected to speak out as each case comes forward?
Since this country is so virulently racialized, the risk is alienating the rest of the nation if he goes beyond the personal anecdotes that he has mentioned over and over during the past 6 years - not counting his pre-election speech "A More Perfect Union".... As has been said - he is not "the President of the black people of the U.S.", he is "President of all of the people of the U.S."