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发帖数: 6571 | 1 President Barack Obama today said his empathy for the grievances expressed
by black people about how they are treated by police and fellow citizens is
rooted in his experiences as an African-American man.
At an ABC town hall on race relations in America titled "The President and
the People: A National Conversation," a person in the audience — in light
of the national debate over whether law enforcement officers unfairly target
black people — asked Obama if he was ever pulled over by police.
Obama said he has been pulled over, though he was careful not to say it was
due to racism.
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"I will say that the overwhelming majority of the time, I deserved to be
pulled over 'cause I was going too fast, and the police officers were
courteous, and I, and I got a ticket, which I deserved," he said. "There
have been a couple of times in my life where that was not the case."
But the president made clear that at times in his life he did feel treated
differently simply because he is black.
"What is true for me is true for a lot of African-American men — is there's
a greater presumption of dangerousness that arises from the social and
cultural perceptions that have been fed to folks for a long time," he said.
"And I think it is not as bad as it used to be, but it's still there, and
there's a history to that."
He recalled being a boy growing up in Hawaii with his white grandparents and
encountering a neighbor at the elevator.
"I still remember when I was 10 years old walking into the elevator, and
there was a woman who I thought knew me, and as soon as I walked on — and
she lived on my grandparent's floor — when I walked on, she got off," Obama
said. "And I was puzzled. I said, 'Do you want to come up?' And she said no
. And then I went up, and then I saw the elevator go back down, and I just
kind of peeked out the peephole, and I could see she came right back up but
was just worried about riding the elevator with me."
He said sometimes he encountered that sense of dangerousness just going
about daily life.
"And then over time you start learning as you're crossing the street,
suddenly the locks start going on doors," he said.
The comments from Obama, the nation's first black president, come as the
country is reeling from a string of shootings that have raised racial
tensions.
Last week two black men were shot dead by white police officers — one in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and another outside St. Paul, Minnesota — in cases
that sparked outrage over concerns that the officers greatly overreacted to
the threats posed in each case.
Then during a protest in Dallas, five police officers were shot and killed
by a man who authorities say was upset about the recent police shootings.
At the town hall, Obama appealed for a greater sense of understanding and
for people to not make assumptions about one another based on race or
ethnicity.
"So the question, I think, for all of us is, 'How do we try to lessen those
barriers and those misunderstandings?" And some of it involves us being very
conscious of our assumptions, because white folks and Latino folks also
carry some assumptions," he said. "You may see a police officer who's doing
everything right, and you automatically assume the worst rather than the
best in him. And we have to guard against that as well. And that has to be
reflected in how we talk about these issues going forward."
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/obama-recalls-faced-racial-prejudice-kid-223305397
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: President Barack Obama today said his empathy for the grievances expressed
: by black people about how they are treated by police and fellow citizens is
: rooted in his experiences as an African-American man.
: At an ABC town hall on race relations in America titled "The President and
: the People: A National Conversation," a person in the audience — in light
: of the national debate over whether law enforcement officers unfairly target
: black people — asked Obama if he was ever pulled over by police.
: Obama said he has been pulled over, though he was careful not to say it was
: due to racism.
: Obama Cites 'Deep Divisions' on Tackling Race in Policing After 4-Hour
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