Former President Barack Obama gave his first on-camera comments about George Floyd‘s killing, during an online town hall on June 3.
Obama, 58, praised the protestors taking to the streets in all 50 states in search of justice following Floyd’s death, and urged them to keep going and fight the good fight.
And he reminded protestors that there’s another important way to impact civil change in the United States: voting. “I have heard that there is a little bit of chatter on the internet about voting versus about protesting.
Politics versus civil disobedience and action,” Obama said in the virtual address. But this is not an either/or thing; it’s a both/and thing.” “To bring about change you have to first highlight a problem and make people
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