Political Quotes

“Mr. President, across America, crowds have been assembling, saying: This is a moment in which we must not only have a national conversation about public safety and racism, but we need action. We need to change the scenario that exists in so many places where public safety departments have seen one group of citizens in a community as their clients and another group of citizens as the threat, which leads to systemic racism, differences in approach depending on the color of the skin of the person that you are dealing with. It may be as simple as saying: Let's stop that person. They have dark skin, and they are driving through this neighborhood, and maybe they don't belong here. Let's stop that person because they have dark skin, and maybe they are dealing drugs. That is systemic racism and profiling. This is a discussion about what value we should aim for here in America. That value is that every member of the community is a client; that there is the goal of providing equal public safety services to all and treating each and every person the same regardless of the color of their skin; and to have each public safety officer say ``How would I respond differently if I saw three young teenagers running toward a house and they were Black rather than White?'' and taking that into account and saying ``Would it change that? Would I respond the same?'' They are all our clients. We are here to serve everyone. That is the national discussion. People come into the streets and protest.…”