I don't think the outreach was working all that well, but this destroys it. The perception is that he didn't move quickly enough because a lot of the people involved were black. Whether that's true or not, that is the perception in our community.
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Black people are no different than any other group of people in the world, ... Explaining the looting, you have to go far, far beyond skin color.
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This is a wise move on her part. This race was framed from the beginning.
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