Name: 歐巴馬總統就特雷馮-馬丁發表講話。 (President Obama Speaks on Trayvon Martin)
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The President: I wanted to come out here, first of all, to tell you

that Jay is prepared for all your questions

and is very much looking forward to the session.

The second thing is I want to let you know

there's going to obviously be a whole range of issues --

we'll try to arrange a fuller press conference

The reason I actually wanted to come out today

but to speak to an issue that obviously has gotten

a lot of attention over the course of the last week --

But watching the debate over the course of the last week,

I thought it might be useful for me to expand

First of all, I want to make sure that, once again,

I send my thoughts and prayers, as well as Michelle's,

and to remark on the incredible grace and dignity

with which they've dealt with the entire situation.

I can only imagine what they're going through,

and it's remarkable how they've handled it.

which is there's going to be a lot of arguments

I'll let all the legal analysts  and talking heads

The judge conducted the trial in a professional manner.

The prosecution and the defense made their arguments.

that in a case such as this reasonable doubt was relevant,

And once the jury has spoken, that's how our system works.

But I did want to just talk a little bit about context

and how people have responded to it and how people are feeling.

You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

in the African American  community at least,

there's a lot of pain around what happened here,

is looking at this issue through a set of experiences

in this country who haven't had the experience

of being followed when they  were shopping in a department store.

who haven't had the experience of walking across the street

and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars.

That happens to me -- at least before I was a senator.

who haven't had the experience  of getting on an elevator

and a woman clutching her purse  nervously and holding her breath

how the African American  community interprets

The African American community is also knowledgeable

that there is a history of racial disparities

in the application of our criminal laws --

in terms of how people interpret the case.

Now, this isn't to say that the African American community

is naïve about the fact that African American young men

are disproportionately involved  in the criminal justice system;

that they're disproportionately both victims

It's not to make excuses for that fact --

although black folks do  interpret the reasons for that

They understand that some of the violence that takes place

in poor black neighborhoods  around the country

is born out of a very violent past  in this country,

can be traced to a very difficult history.

And so the fact that sometimes that's unacknowledged

And the fact that a lot of African American boys

are painted with a broad brush and the excuse is given,

well, there are these statistics out there

that show that African American  boys are more violent --

using that as an excuse to then  see sons treated differently

I think the African American community is also