Barack Obama urges youth to feel 'hopeful', says 'you have power to change things'

Former US President Barack Obama on June 3 in an online Town Hall address urged young people to feel hopeful even as y may feel angry. Obama was speaking in a 'My Bror’s Keeper' event organised by Obama Foundation on Wednesday, where he said younger people in country have power to change things as y have communicated a sense of urgency among citizens that he says is as 'powerful and as transformative' as anything that he has ever seen. 

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"re is something different here. You look at those protests and that was a far more representative cross-section of America out on streets, peacefully protesting, who felt moved to do something because of injustices that y have seen. That didn't exist back in 1960s, that kind of broad collation," Obama said during event. 

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This is t first time Obama has spoken on killing of George Floyd. United States' first black president issued a statement on May 29, where he said, "It’s natural to wish for life 'to just get back to rmal' as a pandemic and ecomic crisis upend everything around us. But we have to remember that for millions of Americans, being treated differently on account of race is tragically, painfully, maddeningly 'rmal' — wher it's while dealing with health care system, or interacting with criminal justice system or jogging down street, or just watching birds in a park."

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US protests

United States is currently rattled by protests that erupted across country over killing of an African-American man George Floyd by a Caucasian police officer who choked him to death by pinning him on ground with his knee. Several states have imposed a curfew and called in National Guard to take control of situation. Looting and vandalising continued for seventh straight day in several cities with luxury stores and or properties destroyed and some burnt to ashes.

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