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发表于 2016-7-28 21:08:50 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
  

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  WHITE HOUSE— The racial violence in the St.Louis suburb of Ferguson is presentingPresident Barack Obama with an issue to whichhe has a deep personal connection. To manyAmericans, Obama's election as America's first black president marked a turning pointin race relations in the United States, and Obama has made ending the violence a policypriority. On Monday he issued a new call for calm and understanding.
  The time for healing for which President Barack Obama hopes has yet to arrive in Ferguson.
  Interrupting a vacation, the president returned to the White House Monday and met withAttorney General Eric Holder, the man spearheading the administration's efforts toindependently investigate the shooting of a young unarmed black man by a white police officer.
  At a briefing, the president called for understanding.
  “To a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call onceagain for us to seek some understanding rather than to simply holler at each other. Let's seekto heal rather than to wound each other. As Americans we've got to use this moment to seekour shared humanity that's been laid bare by this moment,” said Obama.
  In a bid to find the truth, the family of the 18-year-old victim requested a preliminary autopsy.
  And another autopsy, by a federal medical examiner, has been ordered by Attorney GeneralHolder as part of an administration effort to shed light on the truth and restore calm.
  For Obama, it's a personal issue. Following the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, another unarmedblack teenager shot in a racially charged incident, the president spoke of how he sees racerelations in his country.
  “There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of being followedwhen they were shopping at a department store. That includes me. There are very few AfricanAmerican men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing thelocks click on the doors of cars. That happened to me, at least before I was a senator,” saidObama.
  With infant mortality and incarceration rates higher, and income and education levels lower,than non-blacks, Professor Greg Carr, head of Afro-American Studies at Howard University, saidthere hasn't been any real fundamental change in race relations in the U.S.
  “Regardless of the color of the occupant of the Oval Office - certainly with President Obama inoffice and Attorney General Eric Holder, there perhaps is an expectation that there may bemore swift action taken to resolve some of these issues or to at least deal with some of theissues in real time. However, that expectation is tenuous because we understand that BarackObama is not the president of black America as he frequently reminds us, he’s the president ofthe United States of America,” said Carr.
  President Obama announced he's sending the attorney general to Ferguson to meet withinvestigators who are carrying out the independent federal probe that's under way.
  The president says he hopes the truth will be what eventually brings peace to Ferguson andallows the country to move beyond this bout of racial tensions.
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