Obama urges young black people to 'feel hopeful even as you may feel angry' after George Floyd's death, By MJ Lee and Dan Merica (CNN)

Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday personally thanked protesters in the streets across the nation following the death of George Floyd, and urged young African Americans to "feel hopeful even as you may feel angry" because he feels change is coming. In a hopeful speech, Obama said that the significant events over the last months, including the protests over the killing of Floyd and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, represent "the kinds of epic changes ... in our country that are as profound as anything I have seen in my lifetime."

Obama cheered the protesters throughout the online event and urged them to keep going.

"I know enough about that history to say: There is something different here," Obama said, referring to the protests of the 1960s. "You look at those protests, and that was a far more representative cross-section of America out on the streets, peacefully protesting, who felt moved to do something because of the injustices that they have seen. That didn't exist back in the 1960s, that kind of broad coalition."

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