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Obama: “If I Had A Son He'd Look Like Trayvon”
Buzzfeed ^ | 3/23/12 | Zeke Miller

Posted on 03/23/2012 7:35:53 AM PDT by RabidBartender

President Barack Obama weighed in on the "tragedy" of Trayvon Martin's death last week, saying it is "absolutely imperative" that all levels of government investigate "every aspect" of how the unarmed boy was shot.

"I can only imagine what these parents are going through," Obama said, adding "When I think about this boy I think about my own kids."

"I am glad that not only is the Justice Department is looking into this, but the Governor of the State of Florida has put together a task force [to investigate the case]," Obama said. Obama carefully avoided any discussion of George Zimmerman, the man who shot Martin, and has controversially avoided arrest under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense laws.

"My main message is to the parents: If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon. I think they are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves."


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: holderspeople; martin; obama; race; racecard; racism; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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bfl


282 posted on 03/23/2012 1:59:09 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: RabidBartender

Our Race-Baiter-in-Chief is so desperate for election victory he’ll tear the country apart just to win.


283 posted on 03/23/2012 2:12:14 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: RoosterRedux

It’s consistent with Critical Race Theory.


284 posted on 03/23/2012 2:19:26 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: RabidBartender

“If I had a son he’d look like Trayvon.”

Is he saying - “We all look alike.”?


285 posted on 03/23/2012 2:41:22 PM PDT by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: RabidBartender; little jeremiah

Psssssssst...0h0m0,

Physically speaking, you can’t have a son. It needs some physical effort with a real woman not the Wookie.

The heterosexual effort ain’t your bag, ya douche bag!

If you even try, you’ll have the whole H0m0sexual Ping List after your arse!

Oh...wait, nah, they won’t do that!


286 posted on 03/23/2012 2:58:47 PM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D in L0w and H0lder)
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To: melancholy

Make that “the H0m0sexual AGENDA Ping List”

Geez!


287 posted on 03/23/2012 3:00:58 PM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D in L0w and H0lder)
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To: RabidBartender

As “president” he should be calling for calm. Instead, he and his Sharpton Brigade are fanning the fire trying to escalate and expedite his race war.


288 posted on 03/23/2012 3:03:02 PM PDT by jersey117 (The Stepford Media should be sued for malpractice)
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To: July4

You make absolutely no sense. What had he done wrong? Oh, I guess you would teach your son not to buy skittles, tea, or wear a hoddie, and walk innocently through a neighborhood at 6:30 to 7:30 pm?
Where do these things qualify as showing he had no guidance?

Comments like yours just outrage me especially when they are unwarranted.


289 posted on 03/23/2012 3:10:19 PM PDT by bguyj2012
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To: Phantom Phixer

umm, what kind of adult acts stupid and childish just because someone else acts stupid, just because???

thats really how you appear right now with that lame response


290 posted on 03/23/2012 3:10:34 PM PDT by bguyj2012
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To: 1010RD
It’s consistent with Critical Race Theory.

Yes. Which is why CRT is another tool to (inadvertently, I don't know) keep the issue of race alive.

"Don't blend in and when a problem arises due to such...blame it on the predominant culture. Accuse them of not permitting me to wear my hoodie when hoodies are common among the criminal class."

We are in a fine mess, aren't we?

Young black women rage in class that evolution (or that part of it that favors high achievement and standards) is itself racist. And that thought did not arise in a vacuum...it has been carefully taught.

291 posted on 03/23/2012 3:11:58 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "Will someone rid me of that Nettlesome Newt?")
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To: no-to-illegals

The preliminary police reports are available. Google them. I looked at them but didn’t keep the link.


292 posted on 03/23/2012 3:20:21 PM PDT by kabar
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To: RabidBartender

funny how thousands of guys who look like trayvon are shot all over the country all the time by other guys who look like trayvon.

how convenient that it only matters when a white guy (who is actually a hispanic guy) shoots one of them.


293 posted on 03/23/2012 3:25:48 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (if it weren't for double standards the left wouldn't have any standards at all)
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To: RabidBartender
would you name him like you did your oldest daughter?..so that his initials were

MAO


294 posted on 03/23/2012 3:46:27 PM PDT by sternup
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To: kabar

And? Does having black acquaintances excuse someone automatically from being racist? There are racist blacks against blacks (light vs dark skinned blacks).

I don’t see any relevance to having black family members and being racist against blacks, since people are racist against different shades within their own groups.


295 posted on 03/23/2012 3:51:18 PM PDT by bguyj2012
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To: RabidBartender

Any story has GOT to be about Obama. He’s the smartest player in the room.

Recall the athlete he claimed he knew about BEFORE ANYBODY!

Except he disavows his professional career friends Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. What up with that?


296 posted on 03/23/2012 4:17:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
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To: RabidBartender

Barack’s never said that his son would look like some white boy who’d been set on-fire in a hate crime.

This president doesn’t care about white people (to paraphrase doucebag Kanye).


297 posted on 03/23/2012 4:26:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Umm, maybe because barack’s son would be 3/4 african/african american descent.

I’m assuming he meant a son between him and Michelle. There is a 75% chance his son would look more like Trayvon than the white kid that was set on fire...


298 posted on 03/23/2012 5:00:58 PM PDT by bguyj2012
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To: hitchwolf; Mr. K; mojitojoe

More recent photos of Martin, needs to go viral:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2862657/posts?page=96#96

FYI mojitojoe.

Hitch - I am sure Mr.K is not racist. What’s wrong with your brain?


299 posted on 03/23/2012 6:09:59 PM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell. Signed, a fanatic)
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To: Hulka

He’d look like this??

More recent photos of Martin, needs to go viral:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2862657/posts?page=96#96


300 posted on 03/23/2012 6:12:48 PM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell. Signed, a fanatic)
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