For the entirety of his tenure, Barack Obama has been accused of taking the middle ground when it comes to issues of race in America. Deservedly so too. He has never been stern enough in condemning America’s wretched past. For African-Americans, the expectation that the nation’s first black President would finally voice their feelings was never met.
Until this evening.
"The Bible calls us to hope. To persevere, and have faith in things not seen." —@POTUS delivering a eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"We are here today to remember a man of God who lived by faith. A man who believed in things not seen." —@POTUS on Reverend Pinckney
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"Reverend Pinckney embodied a politics that was neither mean nor small. He conducted himself quietly, and kindly, and diligently." —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"He was full of empathy…able to walk in someone else’s shoes and see the world through their eyes." —@POTUS on Reverend Pinckney
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"To put our faith in action is about more than our individual salvation, it’s about our collective salvation" —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"To feed the hungry…and house the homeless is not just a call for isolated charity but the imperative of a just society." —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"To the families of these fallen, the nation shares in your grief. Our pain cuts that much deeper because it happened in a church." —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"That’s what the black church means. Our beating heart—the place where our dignity as a people is inviolate." —@POTUS in Charleston
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"When there were laws banning all-black church gatherings, services happened here, in defiance of unjust laws." —@POTUS on Mother Emanuel
— White House Live (@WHLive) June 26, 2015
"Blinded by hatred, the alleged killer could not see the grace surrounding Reverend Pinckney and that Bible Study group" —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"Blinded by hatred, he failed to comprehend what Reverend Pinckney so well understood—the power of God’s grace" —@POTUS in Charleston
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me;
I once was lost, but now I’m found; was blind but now I see." —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"As a nation, out of terrible tragedy, God has visited grace upon us. For he has allowed us to see where we’ve been blind." —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"For too long, we were blind to the pain that the Confederate flag stirred in too many of our citizens." —@POTUS in Charleston
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"By taking down that flag, we express God’s grace." —@POTUS on the confederate flag
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"We guard against not just racial slurs, but also…the subtle impulse to call Johnny back for a job interview but not Jamal" —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"For too long, we’ve been blind to the unique mayhem that gun violence inflicts upon this nation." —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"The vast majority of Americans, the majority of gun owners, want to do something about this." —@POTUS on reducing gun violence
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"By making the moral choice to change if it will save even one precious life, we express God’s grace" —@POTUS on reducing gun violence
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"It would be a betrayal of everything Reverend Pinckney stood for…if we allowed ourselves to slip into a comfortable silence again" —Obama
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"History must not be a sword to justify injustice…but must be a manual for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past" —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
"Guard against the subtle impulse to call Johnny back for a job interview, but not Jamal" —@POTUS in Charleston http://t.co/qcUl5NnYQs
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
“May God continue to shed His grace on the United States of America." —@POTUS http://t.co/14Z3HnNi8v
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 26, 2015
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