Barack Obama Weighs In on How To Bring About Real Change After George Floyd's Death! (via JustJared)
“Let’s not excuse violence, or rationalize it, or participate in it. If we want our criminal justice system, and American society at large, to operate on a higher ethical code, then we have to model that code ourselves,” the former president wrote in an article onHe continued, “The bottom line is this: if we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We have to do both.
“It falls on all of us, regardless of our race or station — including the majority of men and women in law enforcement who take pride in doing their tough job the right way, every day — to work together to create a ‘new normal’ in which the legacy of bigotry and unequal treatment no longer infects our institutions or our hearts,” he added.
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