[net-gold] Obama Addresses Trayvon Martin Shooting Death in Personal Terms
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- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:52:27 -0400 (EDT)
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Obama Addresses Trayvon Martin Shooting Death in Personal Terms
By Christi Parsons and Michael A. Memoli
March 23, 2012, 4:28 p.m.
Los Angeles Times
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Reporting from Washington
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Declaring that if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon, President Obama
chose a highly personal way to join the heated national debate over the
death of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager fatally shot by a neighborhood
watch volunteer in Florida.
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Obama took care to voice no opinion on the conduct of the shooter, George
Zimmerman, or any legal aspect of the case beyond a call for a thorough
investigation. The attorney general reports to me so Ive got to be careful
about my statements to make sure that were not impairing any
investigation, he said.
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Yet his remarks Friday could have a powerful influence on how the public
views the case. It was a rare White House moment a president identifying
himself with a victim in a racially-charged shooting. More broadly, it
drew attention to the way young black men are seen by a predominantly
white society.
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Whether Zimmerman acted legally in the Feb. 26 shooting and whether the
Sanford, Fla., police acted properly in declining to arrest him turn in
large part on how the victim is viewed.
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Zimmerman, 28, has claimed he shot Martin, 17, in self-defense after
calling police to say he was following a person in his gated community who
he believed was acting suspicious. Supporters of Martins family have said
the high school student was merely walking to a relative's home and that
nothing about him could reasonably have been considered suspicious or
threatening.
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Martins parents appeared to acknowledge that Obamas public identification
with their son carried huge symbolic importance.
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The president's personal comments touched us deeply, they said. The
remarks made us wonder: If his son looked liked Trayvon and wore a hoodie,
would he be suspicious too?
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Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), who has been in close contact with the
Martin family, expressed a view held by many black leaders: that being
targeted for violence is the reality of being a black boy in America.
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Its a problem that has existed for generations since slavery, she said,
expressing the hope that Obamas remarks might change how black men are
perceived.
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Every time the president is realistic about a situation, it helps the
country grow and mature, she said.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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