Viewpoint: The Bravery of Obama’s Trayvon Speech

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1. "Who’s to know what Trayvon would’ve become?"

That's just it, isn't it? Trayvon Martin didn't get a chance because he stood his ground against a lying stalker with a gun.

It was a treacherous speech politically because for one part of the divide the answer to black pain is: get over it, as Rep. Andy Harris recently said. Racism is in the past, white privilege is a myth, profiling is a ghost: doesn’t Obama’s election prove we’re beyond all that? The President knows better. He asked, in his 19 minute address, that black pain be acknowledged, that internalized bias be taken seriously, that history be understood as not done with us yet.

Don't know who Andy Harris is but he obviously doesn't know much about this.

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