higher rates than whites do. the way to combat this tragedy lies in the weeds of gun control and not in the further prosecution of zimmerman at the federal or civil level. a civil case may heal the family but we still live in the same america that emmett till lived in, be where blacks are often judged to be a threat to order and citizens are able to destroy their bodies and be protected by the justice system and the black community is left in the pain. and black parents like me are left to teach their sons the lessons my parents taught me about how to survive. don t run in public if you don t have to. keep your hands out of your pockets if you re in stores. if you re confronted by the police, if compliant. insure ability to the molly phi white people could be the difference between and death. doesn t have to be this way. as this case proved in america, it still is. martin, i know you know what i m talking about. i do, sir, thank you. good afternoon.
166 was the words, but it was very reviewed by a lot of officials. the president dictated it himself to the speech writers. this is something he thought a lot about beforehand. they feel like they had to plan this out for two reasons. the first being the president really feels. horribly for the martin family and wanted to speak to them in a personal way. the second thing is they wanted to make sure the president really spoke directly and encouraged people to remain calm and not have any kind of violent rioting. they felt it was very important to have it come out in the president s words in the first 24 hours. i asked him about any kind of broader action about this. they said this was part of a broader push on gun control, but the white house officials i talked to said there s probably not going to be any kind of broader race speech or broader racial initiative from this case that the president would lead. although, i would say that eric holder today spoke at a group of the deltas, the