“Racism is not over” with Martin Luther King or with laws such as the civil rights act , “prejudices remain, we all come across in life being bigots at some point in our lives. If we are honest, we can feel the prejudices within us “. US President Barack Obama said in Dallas, Texas (accompanied by his wife Michelle), at the memorial ceremony for the 5 agents killed last Thursday by Afghanistan veteran Micah Johnson.

The attack on the five policemen was not only an act of “stupid violence but also of racial hatred”.” We cannot turn a deaf ear and disregard the manifestations of African Americans, consider them as paranoids and troublemakers, we cannot set them aside as a political unrest or put the label on racism. Doing it means denying reality “.
“We must reject the idea that racial division cannot be filled”. “But it is not a question of financing policies that work, but of finding consensus, finding the will for change,” he said in what appears to be his political testament, almost admitting a kind of impotence, of having been to too many commemorations like today, inviting people to reflect on their real desire for change, “to open their hearts”.

“With an open heart, police officers can perhaps realize that they are not better than others.” “Even those who do not like the black lives matter protest movement must feel the pain of Alton Sterling’s family.”

The US president paid tribute first of all to “the role of the police, who at the time of the shooting was guaranteeing the security of a protest for the killing of blacks by the police “. “Despite the fact that the police were the subject of the protest – said the US president – those men did their job, they were serving the country”. “Our entire way of life in the US depends on the role of the law”.

“Dallas agents have saved many more lives than we can imagine.” “We must reject the despair that many Americans feel after the recent shootings”. “The vast majority of policemen do an incredibly hard and dangerous job in a professional and fair way, so it deserves our respect,” whereas when “anyone says that the agents are all corrupt or act on the basis of prejudices” not only weakens, but undermines the cause of justice that law enforcement agencies promote “.