Obama Kecam Keras Rasisme dan Kekerasan Bersenjata di AS
Obama`s Gives Speech for Pastor Killed by Race-hate Gunman of Charleston
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
PRESIDEN AS BARACK OBAMA menyampaikan pidato berapi-api tentang kesamaan ras dan memimpin doa dengan emosional pada misa perkabungan yang dipimpin putri dari pendeta yang dibunuh oleh pembenci kulit putih di Charleston.
Misa perkabungan untuk menghormati Senator Clementa Pinckney, 41, berlangsung di College of Charleston TD Arena.
Lebih dari 5.000 pelayat datang untuk memberikan penghormatan, termasuk Wakil Presiden Joe Biden, Ibu Negara Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton dan Senator Lindsey Graham.
Ketua DPR John Boehner tiba bersama Presiden dan Michelle Obama dengan pesawat kepresidenan Air Force One.
Pinckney, ayah dua anak dan pendeta di Gereja Emanuel AME, tewas pekan lalu bersama dengan delapan orang Afrika-Amerika lainnya dalam serangan bermotif rasial.
Obama menyampaikan pidato berapi-api sekitar 30 menit yang berbicara tentang rasisme dan kekerasan bersenjata.
Pidato diakhiri dengan menyanyikan lagu himne Amazing Grace.
'Sudah terlalu lama kita menutup mata terhadap rasa sakit menatap bendera Konfederasi yang memecah belah warga negara kita karena perbedaan ras," kata Presiden pada pertengahan kata sambutannya.
Lebih dari dua jam menghadiri penghormatan terakhir tersebut, Presiden dan Ibu Negara berada di depan deretan pelayat di College of Charleston TD Arena, seperti dilansir MailOnline.
PRESIDENT OBAMA gives searing speech on race and leads church in song during emotional eulogy for pastor killed by race-hate gunman as reverend's daughters and Michelle look on
Memorial service for state Senator Clementa Pinckney, 41, took place at College of Charleston's TD Arena.
More than 5,000 mourners come out to pay their respects, among them Vice President Joe Biden, First Lady Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Senator Lindsey Graham.
House Speaker John Boehner arrived to the memorial about Air Force One with the president and Mrs Obama.
Pinckney, married father of two and pastor at Emanuel AME Church, was killed last week along with eight other African-Americans in racially motivated attack.
Obama delivered a passionate 30-plus minute eulogy that talked about racism and gun violence.
Concluded remarks by delivering a rendition of the hymn Amazing Grace.
'For too long we were blind to the pain the Confederate flag has stirred in many of our citizens,' the president told the audience halfway through his address.
More than two hours into the memorial, the president and first lady took seats in the first row of the College of Charleston's TD Arena.
