“What we are talking about is how do we create a society that replaces order with justice, so that violence is not the place where people feel they have to turn”, she said.
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Bush, his father former President George H.W. Bush and his brother, former GOP candidate Jeb Bush, are among hordes of Republican establishment figures who will skip the quadrennial GOP party due to their discomfort with Trump.
Nearly exactly three years ago, US President Barack Obama stood in the White House briefing room and said that he didn’t think it would be “particularly productive” for him to convene “a national conversation on race”. The ex-president will deliver brief remarks.
Former President George W. Bush speaking now in Dallas, calls fallen police officers “five family members”. But he has also been accused by political opponents of showing insufficient support for police officers who operate in often perilous conditions. “They are deserving of our respect and not our scorn”.
– Scripps National (@ScrippsNational) July 12, 2016 ” The Dallas PD has been at the forefront of improving relations between police and community. thank you for your proud example”.
“Despite the fact that police conduct was the subject of the protest, despite the fact there must’ve been signs or slogans or chants with which they profoundly disagreed, these men and this department did their jobs like the professionals that they were”, he said.
The way out, Obama said – suggesting work that will continue beyond his presidency – was for Americans to open their hearts to each other. “To have your experience denied like that, dismissed by those in authority, .it hurts”. The country’s first African-American president will deliver remarks to some blacks who have urged him to use the address to blast law enforcement entities, and some whites – including police representatives and senior Texas government officials – eager for him to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement. No institution is entirely immune.
But in the wake of a recent series of high-profile, racially charged shootings across the country, the President this week found himself doing exactly that.
“Well I’ve obviously got some experience with this as a parent and as somebody who’s been around”, Johnson said on CNN’s State of the Union. “If we can tap that grace, everything can change”, Obama said, before breaking out into a solo performance of “Amazing Grace”. “We allow poverty to fester so that entire neighborhoods offer no prospect for gainful employment”. “Not enough mental health funding, let the cops handle it”.
He is also expected to meet with victims’ families and with local law enforcement officials mourning their own. And then we tell the police, you are a social worker. You are a drug counselor. “But we can make it harder for them to do so”.
Obama has struggled most to tether the twin ghosts of race and guns that have been raised by the Dallas shooting.
Either way, it suggests that in the USA, the annihilation of racism remains a work in progress.
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“To renew our unity, we only need to remember our values. We want the unity of hope, affection and high goal”, Bush said in a short speech.
