Former President Barack Obama said Monday that the sometimes violent protests sweeping across the United States are an opportunity to make “real change” so as long as they are peaceful.
“If we want our criminal justice system, and American society at large, to operate on a higher ethical code, then we have to model that code ourselves,” he wrote before adding that the “point of protest is to raise public awareness, to put a spotlight on injustice, and to make the powers that be uncomfortable.”
