[OPINION] Dr. Brittney Cooper responds to the president’s remarks about fatherhood and gun violence
By Brittney Cooper, Ph.D.
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Almost as soon as he began to talk, I found myself deeply incensed at President Obama’s address in Chicago this past Friday. I hoped, along with the 50,000 folks who petitioned for this speech after Hadiya Pendleton’s murder, that the president would offer both empathy and solutions to a community shell-shocked by massive violence.