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(The Hill) President Obama on Saturday acknowledged work remains on improving relations between law enforcement and the minority communities they serve.

Obama said Americans must continue tackling class, race and poverty following multiple fatal encounters between police and minorities during 2015 so far.

“Over the past year, we’ve come to see, more clearly than ever, the frustration in many communities of color and the feeling that our laws can be applied unevenly,” he said during his weekly address.

Interestingly, race relations have nose dived during Obama’s time in office.

“But let’s be clear: the issues raised over the past year aren’t new, and they won’t be solved by policing alone,” the president added. “We simply can’t ask our police to contain and control issues that the rest of us aren’t willing to address – as a society.”

What’s even more interesting is how most of these problems seem to occur in cities run mostly/solely by elected officials who ran as Democrats. Baltimore, which has seen much strife? Democrats. There were three killed, and two injured in overnight Thursday shootings. Two were shot Friday, including a city firefighter. There have been over two hundred murders in Democrat Baltimore so far, on pace to be a record year. Obama’s little speech started thusly

Hi everybody. It’s now been a year since the tragic death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. His death—along with the events in Cleveland, Staten Island, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and other communities—sparked protests and soul searching all across our country. Over the past year, we’ve come to see, more clearly than ever, the frustration in many communities of color and the feeling that our laws can be applied unevenly.

No mention of Michael Brown stealing, assaulting a police officer, attempting to take his gun, then charging the officer, leading to his own death. No mention of the riots, the looting, the arson, the violence. Is this what he considers “soul searching” in the Black community? Instead of cracking down, he coddles, almost giving permission, much like Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake did, when she yammered about “giving those who wished to destroy space”.

That starts with reforming a criminal justice system that too often is a pipeline from inadequate schools to overcrowded jails, wreaking havoc on communities and families all across the country. So we need Congress to reform our federal sentencing laws for non-violent drug offenders. We need to keep working to help more prisoners take steps to turn their lives around so they can contribute to their communities after they’ve served their time.

And what of those who are living in poverty in urban ghettos, with absent fathers, mothers who have had children by multiple men, full dependency on the government, squalid living conditions, and lets not forget the low job opportunities for Blacks. Roughly 25% of young Black men are jobless. This is while Obama attempts to legalize all the illegal aliens, making it even tougher for Blacks who want to escape these urban Democratic plantations through work.

More broadly, we need to truly invest in our children and our communities so that more young people see a better path for their lives. That means investing in early childhood education, job training, pathways to college. It means dealing honestly with issues of race, poverty, and class that leave too many communities feeling isolated and segregated from greater opportunity. It means expanding that opportunity to every American willing to work for it, no matter what zip code they were born into.

Again, who runs these cities? Democrats have been in charge of Detroit since the late 1960’s. The city was once referred to as The Paris Of The West. Since the 1970’s, it has been called the Mogadishu of the West. Chicago has terrible violence and murders. Newark, Camden, Birmingham, Baltimore, you name them, Democratic cities are bad for Blacks. Democrat policies are bad for Blacks. The party was the party of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation, as well as the KKK. A goodly chunk were against the Civil Rights Act(s), and simply moved from outright racism to putting blacks into urban ghettos.

Crossed at Right Wing News.