Then there is no hope.
Via Washington Post:
Almost exactly three years ago, President Obama stood in the White House briefing room and said that he didn’t think it would be “particularly productive” for him to convene “a national conversation on race.”
But in the wake of a recent series of high-profile, racially charged shootings across the country, the president this week found himself doing exactly that. Obama spent
Monday preparing to address the nation at a Tuesday memorial service in Dallas for five slain police officers and meeting with advocates at the White House in an effort aimed at bridging the divide between law enforcement and communities of color.
“I’m your best hope,” Obama remarked at one point, according to the Fraternal Order of Police’s James O. Pasco, one of the meeting’s attendees.