The day Barack Obama launched Black Lives Matter

On the morning of March 23, 2012, after introducing the new head of the World Bank in the White House Rose Garden, Barack Obama took just one question, likely pre-arranged. It was on the recent shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Said Obama for the ages, “My main message is to the parents of Trayvon: If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.”In projecting Trayvon as a “son,” Obama strongly suggested that all black children were equally vulnerable to the predations of white men.