Saturday, July 20, 2013

AMERICA - President Obama on Trayvon Martin's Death

"Obama Gives Highly Personal Take on Trayvon Martin Death, Urges Soul-Searching" PBS Newshour 7/19/2013

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  President Barack Obama offered some personal reflection about the ways persistent racial prejudices inform how African-Americans have reacted to the death of Trayvon Martin and the George Zimmerman trial.  Jeffrey Brown gets perspective on his remarks from Jonathan Turley, Carol Swain, Leonard Pitts Jr., and Michael Beschloss.




Ladies and gentlemen, my President of the United States of America....

FULL SPEECH (16:59)

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