“For too long, we were blind to the pain that the Confederate flag stirred in too many of our citizens,” Obama said. “By taking down that flag, we express God’s grace.”No equal protection under the law for you Johnny!
Obama praised South Carolina’s Republican leaders for seeking to remove the flag from state grounds, but said there was much more that needs to be done to heal the nation’s racial wounds.
He called on Americans to recognize racial prejudices in their everyday lives, not just overt expressions of racial hatred.
“So that we're guarding against not just racial slurs but we're also guarding against the subtle impulse to call Johnny back for a job interview but not Jamal,” Obama said.
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Obama Expands Definition of Racism on Job Interviews: Calling 'Johnny back for a job interview but not Jamal'
The Hill reports: