It may be the most deeply personal cause on president obamas agenda and led to some very powerful moments today at the white house ceremony that ended just a while ago. The president delivering a powerful speech and drawing on his own background, growing up without a father, the president launched a program called my brothers keeper to keep young minority men in school and out of jail and put them on the road to success. I explained to them that when i was their age, i was a lot like them. I didnt have a dad in the house. And i was angry about it, even though i didnt necessarily realize it at the time. I made bad choices. I got high without always thinking about the harm that it could do. I didnt always take school as seriously as i should have. I made excuses. Sometimes i sold myself short and i remember when i was saying chris, you may remember this. After i was finished, the guy sitting next to me said, are you talking about you . I said yeah. And the point was i could see myself in
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in the last election, even in the midst of a pandemic where the democrats were able to boost voter turnout by really working to get out the vote efforts around the country, chris. in the meantime, latasha, all of this is happening after the supreme court upheld arizona voting restrictions and the president of the urban league, marc moriel, talked about that after the meeting at the white house. let me play it. when we look at what is happening in this nation, we see an effort to impose a system of american apartheid. you use the nullification of the supreme court, which just recently undercut the voting rights act, to try to thwart the power of this grand and glorious multicultural nation. to anybody who listened to that press conference after the meeting with the president, it was sobering, i thought,
English By Chris Simkins Share on Facebook Print this page WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden, in his first weeks in office, is facing growing calls from civil rights groups to turn campaign pledges for police and criminal justice reform into action.
“We want Biden to deliver on the racial justice agenda,” Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, told VOA.
Groups representing law enforcement, meanwhile, say they want a seat at the table and urge consultation before any sweeping mandates are issued from Washington.
As a six-term U.S. senator, Biden had strong backing from police organizations. Now, as president, he is expected to sign an executive order that sets up a national commission on the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers. More broadly, Biden has pledged to confront and address racial inequality in America.
him. he could releet ate to them. it only takes one moment in your life to change it and the president happened to be that for those young men. i m sure everyone on that set, someone just e-mailed me and said i m in the airport, just landed and i m watching cnn and i see all four of you black men there and this is an amazing moment, being real on television. because each of us mr. moriel, i went to an all black catholic school. those nuns used to sit with me until i got it. don, i know you can do it. they would sit with me in baton rouge, louisiana. and they would sit with me until i got it. they never gave up on me and they would tell my mom and grandmother, whoever would listen, when my older sister gets home, i need for you to work with him on his math. he doesn t have a problem with reading or spelling or whatever but that math, boy, i need you
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