WASHINGTON, D.C.: Former President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election. In doing so, Obama is signaling a willingness to sharply critique his successor, President Donald Trump, and fill what many Democrats see as a national leadership void. “President Obama is not going to shy away from that dialogue simply because he’s not in office anymore.”During the roundtable, Obama drew parallels between the unrest sweeping America currently and protest movements of the 1960s. Floyd’s death, however, has drawn a more visceral and personal reaction from the nation’s first black president. It can’t be ‘normal,’” Obama wrote.

Source: Manila Times June 04, 2020 04:41 UTC