Obama pandering to the #BlackLivesMatter wing of the Dem base.

Via The Hill:

The work of the civil rights movement remains unfinished, President Obama said ahead of his trip to Alabama to mark the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery.

“I think that the generation that has followed the civil rights generation has in many ways made great strides in part just by walking through the doors of opportunity that those giants helped to open up,” Obama said during an interview airing Friday on Sirius XM’s “Urban View” with Joe Madison.

“I also think we all recognize that there continues to be challenges that require not just individuals living well and raising good kids, but requires collective action and mobilization. On some of those areas, I think we haven’t done everything we can do.”

A “big chunk” of the problems that remain are “dealing with civil rights and civil liberties in respect to law enforcement” he said.

Obama’s interview aired two days after the Justice Department released a report that found that the Ferguson, Mo. police department systematically violated the civil rights of its black residents.

The Justice Department also announced it would not seek civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the Ferguson officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in an altercation over the summer.

Obama painted the Ferguson report as atypical but unsurprising in his first public comments since the report’s release.

“I don’t think that is typical of what happens across the country but it’s not an isolated incident,” he said.