Barack and Trayvon -By CHARLES M. BLOW: "We could all have been Trayvon."
Barack and Trayvon
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: July 19, 2013 77 Comments
On Friday President Obama picked at America’s racial wound, and it bled a bit.
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Most blacks don’t believe that racial prejudice is the whole of black people’s problems today, or is even chief among them. According to a Gallup poll released Friday, only 37 percent of blacks believe that the fact that they, on average, have worse jobs, income and housing is “mostly” because of discrimination.
But it would be hard to argue that bias plays no role, even if it’s immeasurable.
That’s why there was value in the president of the United States acknowledging his “two-ness” on Friday and connecting with Trayvon Martin — because we can never lose sight of the fact that biases and stereotypes and violence are part of a black man’s burden in America, no matter that man’s station.
We could all have been Trayvon.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/opinion/blow-barack-and-trayvon.html?_r=2&
