Comments from the President during his announcement today of nominating Jim Yong Kim as head of the World Bank.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
The President leads off with comments about how this is an open Justice Department investigation and so must choose his words carefully.
OBAMA: It is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this. … But my main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son he’d look like Trayvon. And I think they are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and get to the bottom of exactly what happened.
Was hoping to end this quick diary with some poignant thought of my own, but I think the President took care of that.
I will say this...I wonder if the President had read this moving diary by TheCrank
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Trayvon Martin is not my son. I can project his family's pain, but I cannot truly experience it. I don't want to know the agony of being the bearer of my own son's torch, in death. I cannot ever -- I hope I won't ever -- have to face that moment of finality that the beautiful unraveling scroll of my sons' lives comes to a sudden halt. I am so, so sorry for Trayvon's parents, and I am so grateful that Trayvon -- a good kid, by all accounts -- is not my son.
But Trayvon Martin is my son.
When there is no justice for Trayvon, and kids like him, without a promise that we will do better, not worse, there is always the chance that one of my sons will fall to the same fate. Where being different is being suspicious, there will be danger to my sons. Where authority, deadly force, and the law conspire to kill a child, there will be danger to my sons. To your sons. To all our sons and daughters.
Trayvon Martin is your son.