Black Folks, It's time to STOP Taking Care of White People.

[NoOneMan]

4. I guess this is a thread as good as any others...

But I was disturbed/confused by a few things about Obama's speech and I think it parallels to this article somewhat

But I did want to just talk a little bit about context and how people have responded to it and how people are feeling.

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And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away.

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And I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African American community interprets what happened one night in Florida.

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And that ends up having an impact in terms of how people interpret the case.

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And so the fact that sometimes that's unacknowledged adds to the frustration. And the fact that a lot of African American boys are painted with a broad brush and the excuse is given, well, there are these statistics out there that show that African American boys are more violent — using that as an excuse to then see sons treated differently causes pain.

But they get frustrated, I think, if they feel that there's no context for it and that context is being denied.

I don't know. Isn't everyone with a brain frustrated, white people included? Why is Obama making excuses for black people being angry about this situation and this trial? Isn't he perpetuating a social myth of them being "frustrated" victims that do not think entirely rational because of their history of victimization? Shouldn't everyone be frustrated? Why does this fully matter in terms of justice not being served, as it was not?

Maybe I hear things differently but the entire time Obama was talking about this it seems like he was telling white people why black people are angry, and almost apologizing for them making a "big deal" out of this trial.

Im white. Im pretty pissed about the entire matter. Maybe I misunderstood Obama. I didn't think Obama had to spell this out; its his right to, don't get me wrong. I didn't think he had to explain "frustration", and attribute it solely to black people (thinking people are frustrated...this case isn't about black people having a "special" perception of these events which pretty objectively shows a racists murderer was freed due to racists on the jury). Someone talk me down here, but it just seems a bit like he was apologizing for a group that he didn't need to so us white folk wouldn't be annoyed anymore