Five days have passed after the controversial acquittal of the White George Zimmerman, the blacks Trayvon Martin shot  and Barack Obama is silent.

Everything Barack Obama has said so far on the difficult relationship between blacks and whites in America, he said before the start of his presidency. At least the decisive factor.

In his autobiography, he described the struggle for identity as Black. On the Democrat Party Conference of 2004, he exclaimed that there was no black, no white, not Hispanic, not Asian America, “there is only the United States of America.” In the 2008 elections, and he gave a keynote speech, which focused, among other things, the continuing discrimination against blacks.

But since moving into the White House on the subject, there is usually silence.

The reluctance of the President is now particularly striking: Last Saturday of the white neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman has been convicted by a jury in Florida “not guilty” for, though he had shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old black man.

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Of course, there is the statement which was broadcast on Sunday the president: that the death of Martin’s a “tragedy” is for all of America, but that the United States had a right state and had ruled a jury. Not a word about Martin’s skin color is found in this statement. The American taboo subject even the President is silent.

Zimmerman was only in self-defense, that is the conclusion of the jury. Even though he was the one who followed Martin. What role did Martin’s skin color? The judge would not let the question of “racial profiling” to.

Barack Obama could make it now? But the president says only: “We should all ask ourselves whether we are doing enough against the force of arms, which calls every day to many victims in our country.  “Many black civil rights is not enough. Request a recent indictment Zimmerman, this time by federal law. Because there it is the offense of hate crime. Ministry of Justice examines the facts, but the chances of a lawsuit are slim.

The activist Janet Long Hard Cohen asks in a commentary for the “Washington Post” more general use of Obama for the rights of blacks: “We have waited and seen how the President important concerns of women, homosexuals, Latinos adopted.” Now we expect that Obama also assume the cause of African Americans: “The blacks should not have to wait for a white president before they can demand from their government vigorously to eliminate the abuses.” As soon as possible would Obama now “brave about race and racism” talk.

The anger is understandable, because it’s not only the case of Zimmerman. About the end of June, the Supreme Court cut the “Voting Rights Act” of 1965 one of the greatest achievements of the black civil rights movement.

Why President Obama is silent ?

One thing is clear: The president does not want to inflame the situation, the current mood. Therefore, the call to respect the judgment Zimmerman. But there’s more to it. Although Obama always speaks with great respect of the older generation of civil rights, but is never itself a pioneer in the true sense of the blacks were. When it comes to reconciling Obama, not about the fight. Critics of his course, he has always maintained contrary, he was not the black president, but of the whole America.

For Obama, equality is above all an economic category: integration of black people through education, through economic participation. Hardly an event where Obama did not know to speak of “strengthening the middle class.” He always thinks that even career opportunities for disadvantaged blacks, without naming the taboo skin color. This is reflected in the strengthening about health care reform that will guarantee millions of Americans for the first time insurance protection and thus economic stability – among many African Americans.

Therefore questionable whether Obama in the near future a keynote speech about prejudice between black and white is to be expected. Rather you will have to read between the lines. The President last year, but said after the death of Martin’s not skin color – but he noted: “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin.”

Alone Attorney General Eric Holder, Obama has apparently currently entrusted with the significant words: In a speech to the Black Organization NAACP Holder criticized the self-defense laws that exist among others in Florida. According to the “stand-your-ground” of a crime regime must threatened citizens of the danger does not go out of the way, but may even kill the alleged attacker. So will the concept of self-defense “expanded pointless”, criticized Holder. In the case of Zimmerman, however, the defense ultimately not called to this particular self-defense law.

Holder, the first black Attorney General America, showed his anger at the verdict in personal passages. He told of a conversation with his 15-year-old son. He prepared after the death of Trayvon Martin’s special features in the life of an African American before: he had warned him always to behave cautiously when he get into a police check. This had already taught him his own father, as Holder.

Sad tradition in America.

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