Obama: 'If I Had A Son, He Would Look Like Trayvon' (updated)

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89. I want to see more in the media about "The Talk."

It's a completely new concept to me. And to think that such a large segment of the US population hears a talk that the rest of us have never even heard of...and that the purpose of the talk is to make them less likely to be victims of systemic injustice....is just shameful. I think the idea of that talk, especially as a rite of passage, solidifies an idea that is otherwise hard for those of us on the outside to visualize.

As much as I wish we lived in the "post-racial" society I keep hearing about, I think this proves, yet again, that we still have a long way to go.