Obama Defends Black Lives Matter, Says Progress Is ‘A Little Uncomfortable”


Of course, we’ve seen the inevitable fallout of the Black Lives Matter movement: thousands of student activists taking their colleges by storm, denouncing racism, sexism and any number of other isms. Although Obama tries to position himself as above it all, he tacitly agrees with the agitators’ grievances.

“Obama also weighed in on the controversies surrounding college campuses, demanding that artifacts on campus be removed for the sake of racial sensitivities.

The president argued that students had to be willing to listen to other points of view, citing a specific situation where Condoleezza Rice was blocked from speaking at a college campus.

‘What I don’t want is a situation in which particular points of view that are presented respectfully and reasonably are shut down, and we have seen that sometimes happen,’ he said.

NPR’s Inskeep specifically mentioned the Harvard seal based on the family crest of a slave owner, and a school at Yale named after John C. Calhoun, a defender of slavery.

Although Obama was hesitant to respond specifically to the controversies, he argued that campus activism was a positive development for universities.

“I think it’s a healthy thing for young people to be engaged and to question authority and to ask why this instead of that, to ask tough questions about social justice,” he said. ‘So I don’t want to discourage kids from doing that.'”

Source: Breitbart



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