# "There are very few African-American men who haven’t had the experience of being followed in a department store ... that includes me". # “There are very few African-American men who haven’t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happened to me, at least before I was a senator".
#“There are very few African-Americans who haven’t had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often.” #“If Trayvon Martin was of age and he was armed, could he have ’stood his ground’ on that sidewalk?” #“If a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.” #“It doesn't mean we’re in a post-racial society or that racism has been eliminated, but the situation was improving". #“Another way of saying that is, Trayvon Martin could’ve been me, 35 years ago.”
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