Question: and why is that?
Answer: because i think the police are given a task in our society of keeping a lid on communities that are suffering from broader injustices. and we don't like talking about those broader systemic injustices. we don't like talking about the fact that if you grow up in a certain zip code, you're much less likely to be able to get a good education, you're much less likely to be able to be part of the networks that allow you ultimately to get a good job, you're much less likely to get good social services in those areas. and that's not the police's fault. that's society's fault, but we like to distance ourselves from those responsibilities, lay it on the police to say: just keep it away from us. and when you start seeing as a consequence of that failure to address deeper inequalities, the inevitable tensions, conflicts that pop up, then we're confronted with stuff that we don't like discussing and talking about. and the issue of the particular event between the police officer and a black person who's interacting with them becomes the focal point, but it really raises a broader question, which is why is it that we're still living in a society in which such inequities exist. and that i think is a conversation that you started to see for the first time being addressed more honestly than any time in my lifetime, which makes me hopeful. but during my presidency, again and again, i think there was a tendency to want to say, even among those who felt good about having a black president, we don't want to open up all this big can of worms. you know, we want to kind of say, "alright, this is progress and so let's just look forward and let's not look back."
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  and why is that?
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  because i think the police are given a task in our society of keeping a lid on communities that are suffering from broader injustices. and we don't like talking about those broader systemic injustices. we don't like talking about the fact that if you grow up in a certain zip code, you're much less likely to be able to get a good education, you're much less likely to be able to be part of the networks that allow you ultimately to get a good job, you're much less likely to get good social services in those areas. and that's not the police's fault. that's society's fault, but we like to distance ourselves from those responsibilities, lay it on the police to say: just keep it away from us. and when you start seeing as a consequence of that failure to address deeper inequalities, the inevitable tensions, conflicts that pop up, then we're confronted with stuff that we don't like discussing and talking about. and the issue of the particular event between the police officer and a black person who's interacting with them becomes the focal point, but it really raises a broader question, which is why is it that we're still living in a society in which such inequities exist. and that i think is a conversation that you started to see for the first time being addressed more honestly than any time in my lifetime, which makes me hopeful. but during my presidency, again and again, i think there was a tendency to want to say, even among those who felt good about having a black president, we don't want to open up all this big can of worms. you know, we want to kind of say, "alright, this is progress and so let's just look forward and let's not look back."