In his public statements, Obama is playing it coy on Charlotte. That's only to be expected. He knows that his own party contains plenty of voters who aren't on board with his radical agenda. But it's not hard to read the message in the coyness, even if the DOJ headed out to go to war with Charlotte was at all ambiguous.
Speaking at a reception at the White House ahead of the opening of the African American Museum of History and Culture on Saturday,...
“We’re here just to acknowledge what an extraordinary achievement has been accomplished,” Obama said. “Part of the reason I’m so happy the museum is opening this weekend is because it allows all of us as Americans to put our current circumstances in a historical context,” he said. “My hope is that as people are seeing what’s happened in Tulsa or Charlotte on television, and perhaps are less familiar with not only the history of the African-American experience but also how recent some of these challenges have been.
“My hope is that white folks watching those same images on television and then seeing the history represented at this museum can say to themselves, ‘The struggles we’re going through today are connected to the past,’
The cynical conflation of civil rights and the shooting in Charlotte of a violent armed criminal who had terrorized three states is vintage Obama. He knows that much of the Dem base still consists of people who believe that he really wants progress and that his victory was a civil rights victory, rather than the triumph of the radical left. But that card is increasingly being played out.
Obama isn't fighting against segregated water fountains. He's persecuting a black police officer who shot a violent criminal. There's nothing of civil rights about it.
And the right not to be murdered by one of Obama and Black Lives Matter's criminals is also a civil right.