he wouldn't want to make racists angry, so no.

@1 white people either telling minorities to get over it, or criticizing minorities for not having what they determine to be a strong enough reaction to racism.

He's an idiot if he thinks that all of the usual suspects won't scream that he has a thumb on the scale no matter what he does! Why hasn't he learned that by now?

I can hardly believe this thread isn't 40 posts of zok defending his blatantly racist comments as fair and balanced yet.

He's not even up for election anymore and he still can't take a strong stand. This is pathetic.

@3: Third Way Democrats in a nutshell.

How about you step in because kids are getting murdered?

The prime suspect in Michael Brown's homicide remains in hiding, yes?

One neighbor said he knew Officer Wilson was on the Ferguson police force, and figured out that he might be linked to the shooting of Mr. Brown when police cars, marked and unmarked, started showing up in the neighborhood several days ago. Then on Tuesday, Officer Wilson began mowing his lawn, but “he did not finish,” said the neighbor, who wore a faded Cardinals T-shirt and camouflage shorts. “It appears they left in a hurry.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/us/fer…

Obama has run roughshod (as well as continued the treasonous edicts of prior badministrations) over our Constitutional rights as citizens. Did he bother to mention the ignorance of the Bill of Rights? Habeas Corpus? Posse Comitatus? Does he know the long history of racism directed against Blacks in the USA by Whites? ( not only via the so-called peace officers, but in EVERY aspect of Human Life!) Pfft! Perhaps somebody with an advanced degree in Black Studies , USA History, or Philosophy should run for office . . . . ---- http://www.sevenstories.com , http://blackrosebooks.net , http://www.akpress.org .