New poem: AND I AM TELLING YOU I'M NOT GOING TO FERGUSON.

The President triangulates:
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I don't want to rock the boat
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I'm already sending the Attorney General
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My presence in Ferguson
makes white bigots more bigoted
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It's a local situation there
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I don't want to risk showing anger
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I can't risk being seen as strident
in criticizing white policemen
for treating all young black men
as potential criminals
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I imagine myself going to
Michael Brown's funeral
and having someone on Fox News
compare me to
Tom Bradley criticizing
the verdicts for the LAPD cops
at the Simi Valley trial
for the beating of Rodney King
in 1992
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Let's all support
My Brother's Keeper program
and turn the page on this episode
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