VIDEO: Obama Gives Scathing Speech on Race and Gun Violence at Charleston Shooting Victim’s Memorial
"For too long, we’ve been blind to the unique mayhem that gun violence inflicts upon this nation," said the president at the funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, one of the nine killed at Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina last week.“For too long, we’ve been blind to the unique mayhem that gun violence inflicts upon this nation,” said the president at the funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, one of the nine killed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina last week.
Below is a video of his speech; you can also read his eulogy for the pastor here.
Read also: On the Charleston Shooting and the Daily Tragedy of ‘Living While Black
—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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