A year ago, Trayvon Martin could have been Obama’s son. Today, Martin could have been Obama, 35 years ago.

Obama “sidestepped the idea of demanding a new, national conversation on race …” That’s good of him, since a “conversation on race” would lead to the same faces popping up in front of cameras in all the TV news studios, the faces saying the same words as five or 10 or 15 years ago, with the same result – people first angry because we’ve been through this all before, and then attention turning to the next blonde missing somewhere or a cruise liner throwing up passengers like Pinocchio’s whale. And just where would a president get the authority to “demand” a conversation?

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/19/19563211-obama-trayvon-martin-could-have-been-me-35-years-ago?lite

“(T)he speech was the usual narcissistic insertion of himself into the story in order to generate a crisis.”

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(To Obama there are two Americas – him and people who think the way he does. The rest do not matter.)