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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Obama's Trayvon Martin Press Conference [Watch (HLS stream): Obama's Trayvon Martin Press Conference](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/qjuNAwE8.m3u8) (3:55)  _Published 2013-07-19. 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Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African- American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African- American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a-- and a history that doesn't go away. Some of the violence that takes place in poor black neighborhoods around the country is born out of a very violent past in this country. And that the poverty and dysfunction that we see in those communities can be traced to a very difficult history. And so, the fact that sometimes that's unacknowledged adds to the frustration. There are very few African- American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. There are probably 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 happens 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. A lot of African- American boys are painted with a broad brush and the excuses given, " Well, there are these statistics out there that show that African- American boys are more violent ," using that as an excuse to then see sons treated differently. It causes pain. But they get frustrated, I think, if they feel that there's no context for it or-- and that context is being denied. And that all contributes, I think, to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario that, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different. I just ask people to consider, if Trayvon Martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk? And do we actually think that he would have been justified in shooting Mr. Zimmerman, who had followed him in a car, because he felt threatened? 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