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12793316, RE: Um, why hasn't anyone said yet...
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Wed Apr-29-15 02:24 AM
?uest wrote the tweet before the POTUS's speech this afternoon.

As far as the comments used by the Mayor and the Presidemt, they got their speeches 98% right and with both speeches involving a high degree of difficulty.

It's hard enough managing a crisis where people's lives are in danger. Doubly when dealing with social issues with literally generations of mistrust and neglect at the root on one side and mistrust and false morality on the other.

Both speeches needed to touch on the motives for the outbreaks of violence, and condemn the actions of the rioters while preserving their dignity.

Could their speeches been a little tighter in regards to their language? Probably. But they were speaking extemporaneously and in the Mayor's case didn't have time to prepare a statement.

I wish the population were open minded and educated enough so that a simple declarative statement could get the point across without progressive using coded language needed to counter the coded language of conservatives.

I think people are more motivated to change the wording than the conditions which prompted the use of the words in the first place.