Obama announced the creation of a nonprofit to give opportunities to young men of color from areas with “odds stacked against them.”
President Obama spoke at Lehman College (in the Bronx) and announced the launch of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, a nonprofit organization that is also a spinoff of a White House initiative to increase opportunities and to help young minority men.
“That sense of unfairness, and of powerlessness, of people not hearing their voices, that’s helped fuel some of the protests that we’ve seen in places like Baltimore, and Ferguson and right here in New York.”
“In too many places in this country, black boys and black men, Latino boys and Latino men, they experience being treated differently by law enforcement.”
“This is an issue that the president intends to be focused on long after he has left the oval office” White House spokesman Josh Earnest the White House Press Secretary mentioned on the topic. Mr. Earnest also said My Brother’s Keeper Alliance will be responsible for determining its own fundraising policies. In unveiling nonprofit for young minorities, some believe Obama hinted at his post-presidency plans.