Here is President Obama's statement on the mass murder at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church:
The President focused disproportionately on "gun violence," which is honestly not the point here. As Kirsten West Savali observed on Twitter, if the weapon had not been a gun, it would have been a bomb. History tells us as much.
I understand why President Obama may feel like he can't talk about racialized violence, but Vice President Joe Biden was standing RIGHT THERE. Let him call it out then.
White men need to be talking about this. So give Biden the podium, if that's what it takes to say what needs to be said.
Calls for unity and healing are less than worthless when we can't even name the problem. White supremacy thrives and depends on the fairy tale that it doesn't even exist.
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