President Obama Tries to Explain #BlackLivesMatter

On Thursday, President Obama, during an open forum addressed the purpose of the Black Lives Matter Movement. In the past our president hasn’t explained in such detail his thoughts on the Black Lives Matter Movement, but at the White House this week POTUS addressed some of the issues and concerns that only seem to plague black communities.

In the clip, Obama said, “I think everybody understands all lives matter. I think the reason that the organizers use the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ was not because they were suggesting nobody else’s lives mattered. Rather, what they were suggesting was there is a specific problem that is happening in the African-American community that’s not happening in other communities. And that is a legitimate issue that we’ve got to address. The African-American community is not just making this up.”t

The President continues to accept the fact that there are blacks who are being mistreated in their own communities, but he also adds that people of these communities need to understand the tough job responsibilities of the police departments across America.

The most important part is that Obama stressed that the concerns of black community regarding police brutality is REAL and its not just something that people of color are making up – “There are indeed injustices in African-American communities, “It’s not just something being politicized. It’s real and there’s a history behind it and we have to take it seriously,” Obama said.