Ferguson: Obama ne peut y aller. Pourquoi?

Avec les émeutes qui se déroulent à Ferguson, le premier Président noir des États-Unis est confronté à la question raciale. Ses premiers commentaires ont été brefs et Obama a évité de prendre position. Plutôt que de se déplacer au Missouri, il a délégué son Attorney general, lui-même noir. Le Président agit-il ainsi uniquement en raison de sa fonction qui exige calme et retenue? Préfère-t-il attendre la fin de l'enquête?

 "Obama’s dilemma on Ferguson boiled down to whether he should issue a statement that would leave the shooting’s passionate critics unsatisfied, or say nothing at all and appear disengaged.

 “The circumstances determine the reaction, and it isn’t appropriate for the president to speak up emotionally in the midst of an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department,” White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said in a telephone interview. “He wants the Attorney General and his team to be able to conduct an independent investigation without any thumb on the scale one way or another. I think the president’s goal is to add his voice in a way that is calming, so the violence ends, and to send a message to the government officials on the ground about what his expectations are in terms of freedom to assemble, freedom of speech and freedom of the press – and also to signal to the people who have been looting and shooting that that’s not an acceptable way to honor the death of a young man.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/barack-obama-ferguson-race-110165_Page2.html