From our first “post-racial” president.

Via LA Times:

… After Obama explained some of the changes that will take place once key parts of his healthcare plan go into effect Oct. 1, Leno turned to the subject of Trayvon Martin, expressing admiration for the president’s recent remarks about the verdict and the larger issues of racial discrimination.

“What I wanted to try to explain was why this was a particularly sensitive topic for African American families, because a lot of people who have sons know the experience they had of being followed, being viewed suspiciously,” he said.

“We all know that young African American men disproportionally have an involvement in criminal activities and violence, for a lot of reasons,” the president continued, citing factors such as poverty, failing schools and blighted communities.

“That’s no excuse, but what we also believe in is everybody should be treated fairly and the system should work for everyone. So what I’m trying to do is just make sure that we have a conversation and that we’re all asking ourselves are there some things that we can do to better foster understanding and to make sure that we don’t have laws in place that encourage the kind of violent encounter that we saw there that resulted in tragedy,” he said.