Molson Hart

Well written with the right message. Wish our current president would step up and say and write more than “fake news” or “law and order”.https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1267459874788646912 …

His words didn't do anything then, and they don't do anything now. Just vapid platitudes while the grassroots orgs in his network are stoking the flames behind the scenes.

I don’t think he’s in a good position to do much more than write an article. He’s not president any longer. I don’t know what he’s doing behind the scenes. I don’t think they were vapid platitudes. People respect him a lot. He has influence.

Didn't do anything during Ferguson. He enflamed tensions by pushing hands up don't shoot narrative, which his own DOJ showed to be nonsense. US was now divided after his 8 yrs because of him and his network.

Yes, it definitely seemed like racism was perceived to have gotten worse over that period, but there were some conflating factors like cell phones being able to record everything. I wish he were more pro-justice-system but I thought this piece was right.

Yes. There will never not be a period when occasionally ugly incidents don't occur- social media amplifies. We need solutions- what are the best ideas coming out of the ~3000 US counties for addressing police misconduct? The voters in those counties are the cop's bosses...