On a Wednesday afternoon livestream, President Obama delivered an optimistic message about the protests gripping the nation in response to police violence: “There is a change in mindset that’s taking place,” he said. .@BarackObama: "There is something different here." We're witnessing “a far more representative cross-section of America out on the streets, peacefully protesting…That didn't exist in the 1960s." pic.twitter.com/BOE49rK0wR — Mother Jones (@MotherJones) June 3, 2020 In a town hall, organized through My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative he launched as president, Obama acknowledged that while the last few weeks have been “difficult, uncertain, and scary,” we are also living through “an incredible opportunity for people to be awakened” to the ongoing reality of structural racism—”the result of a long history of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and redlining.” He called on every mayor in the United States to review police use-of-force policies. “This is not an either/or,” he said of protesting and pushing legislative reform on the local level.
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Delilah Friedler, Mother Jones
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