‘Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me’

Posted by | July 19, 2013 14:50 | Filed under: Top Stories


President Obama made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room to address the George Zimmerman trial and the killing of Trayvon Martin.

“Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” Obama said during a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room.

Obama said he himself has been subjected to casual prejudice, but also said African Americans need to address the problems of violence in their own communities.

African American males understand that they are more likely to be both “victims and perpetrators” of a crime, and “somebody like Trayvon Martin was probably statistically more likely to be shot by a peer than he was by somebody else,” Obama said.

The problems is that so many people paint with a “broad brush” and see all black males as potential criminals, added the first African-American president.

More than a year after saying that Trayvon could have been his son, Obama told reporters that, like other African Americans, he has been followed by security guards while shopping, and has seen motorists lock their doors or women hold tighter to their purses as as he walked near them.

“I don’t want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African-American community interprets what happened one night in Florida,” Obama said.

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