Obama Says Martin Case Calls for ‘Soul Searching’ on Race
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President Barack Obama, whose election was celebrated as a repudiation of racial prejudice, asked the nation for a “soul searching” examination of race relations in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s shooting death.
“Trayvon Martin could have been me,” Obama said yesterday during a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room to offer his first public remarks about the case since a Florida jury acquitted the man who fatally shot the black teenager.