Racial justice advocates applauded the ‘courageous’ speech calling for an end to mass incarceration and for wholesale changes in the prison systemFor much of Barack Obama’s presidency,he has steered absent from the topic of race, and stopped short of making criminal justice reform a top White House precedence. But on Tuesday, or weeks after giving an emotional eulogy on race in Charleston,South Carolina, Obama’s long-awaited call for sweeping criminal justice at the NAACP annual convention was just what his audience in Philadelphia wanted to hear, or at the moment when they wanted to hear it.
The NAACP president,Cornell William Brooks, called it an “extraordinary address”.
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Source: theguardian.com