I don't need it to be explained to me or to hear what a "news star" has to say about it.

One thing as a black woman I too get followed in stores, and witness white women clutching their purses when I step on an elevator. Once I told women, honey relax I have a Louis VUITTON see I don't want or need your cheap ass knock off. Ha ha that was fun

I watched the video of President Obama's news conference. I'm moved by his honest empathy and thoughtfulness. His saying "it could have been me." made my heart skip a beat. Thank You Mr. President. I hope it, and the follow up still to come, helps heal our countries racial, economic, and justice disparities.

I know a lot of us want him thinking about ways to take the fight to the 1% who have been fucking all of us over in this country; I know a lot of us want him to truly be dismantling the National Security, Surveillance, and MIC and Police State...but I don't know if he can...

You see, I think I just figured out that this is a President who spent his formative, formal, intellectual and Academic years fine-tuning his brain to the issues not of the intersections of Politics and Military affairs, NOT of Politics and ECONOMIC affairs, but of the intersection of Politics and RACIAL affairs. And he has so "figured it out", he's so good at it, so IN TUNE with not only with the state of affairs (pertinent to this subject) but so well -spoken at being a Fair and Just COMMUNICATOR of that state of affairs, that when he speaks to the subject, I say to my self "Well, DUH! OF COURSE that is what is happening..." and it's a great treasure to me that we have a President who can articulate into words what I know that I'm FEELING about this issue, because I don't have the intellect, the history, I don't have the...KNOWLEDGE of the subject matter necessary to put into words what I know in my gut and heart needs to be said. And THAT, if NOTHING else, is why this President will be remembered by historians as one of the Towering Figures of our Nation's History.

(on edit) To simplify...I think this President is to American Race relations what FDR was to American Capitalism--he saved it from itself, from it's own worst excesses, even if the Rich didn't want him to, because they were too stupid to know what he was doing for them.

Thank you for what you did with this, Mr. President. Today, I am proud.

and I had hoped his election would help heal some of the racism that has scarred this country. Unfortunately, I feel like his election has not changed anything and maybe even made things worse.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/19/2330191/conservative-freakout-race-speech/

I just don't even see these horrible people getting called out for their racism. It's very disheartening.

and, when FDR was President, the Idle and Idiot Rich leveled the same kinds of attacks as the Bigots are doing now to President Obama. Go out and talk to NORMAL people, people without fear of living in an actual DEMOCRACY, people unafraid of losing a little bit of personal Power (in order to empower the General Masses), and I promise you , THOSE people are not being assholes about this.

Everything in that article, is PROJECTION, pure and simple. Fear of what a racist President might do to them with the power he has, because they correctly undderstand how they have used that power THEMSELVES to damage others, born out of that same Racism.

Fuck Them. WERE WINNING.

If we get a set of alterations to the Judicial and Criminal Code out of all this that levels the playing field between incarcaration rates (even just for Drug Crimes) between White kids and Black kids in this country, THAT will be the Obama Version of the New Deal. And if you think the idiots are out from under their Rocks for this, WAIT till something like that hits the floor of COngress. It will make the ACA debate look like a day at Chuck-E-Cheeze with the kiddies. If I were in Congress today, I would throw it out there just to be a dick to these people, and watch them go all batty...

His Election HAS helped heal some of the racism that has scared this country. There were things I didn't know about as a kid, and therefore didnt ever think about as an adult (at least not critically)... And then there was Senator Obama, and the rest is history.
BELIEVE ME, IT HAS HELPED. People have been re-evaluating thier biases, their positions, their opinions, their outlooks, EVERYTHING..
America will not be the same after this man leaves office, and we will be a better place for it.
Promise.

I agree we are winning, but we seem to be winning too slowly, and the troglodytes seem determined to inflict as much damage as possible before they fade away. And this isn't just about race, of course.