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MOM.
YOU WERE REFERRED TO BY NAME AS
WE JUST HEARD THERE.
WHAT WAS IT LIKE IN THAT ROOM?
>> THERE WAS ELECTRICITY AND
PEOPLE WERE SO EXCITED AND SO
ENCOURAGED AND JUST HANGING ON
EVERY WORD.
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING POSITIVE
AND HOPEFUL.
AND I THINK THEY REALLY RECEIVED
THAT TODAY.
>> AND, LUCY, DID YOU GET A
CHANCE TO TALK TO THE PRESIDENT?
HOW DID YOU END UP IN THAT ROOM?
DID YOU TALK TO HIM PERSONALLY
ABOUT YOUR SON?
>> NO, WE HAVE NOT.
BUT WE KNOW THAT HE'S AWARE OF
OUR CASE, OUR TRIAL AND OUR SON.
>> AND LET ME ASK YOU, YOU KNOW,
YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT YOUR SON.
I MEAN, I KNOW YOU HAD HOME
SCHOOLED HIM.
YOU SPENT A LOT OF TIME WORKING
WITH HIM AND YOU SAID, LOOK, HE
WENT THROUGH A TOUGH TIME.
HE STRUGGLED IN SCHOOL AND MOVED
TO BE WITH HIS DAD AS HE WAS
GOING THROUGH THAT TOUGH TIME.
DO YOU THINK THE INITIATIVE YOU
HEARD ABOUT TODAY WOULD HAVE
HELPED HIM?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
HOW COULD IT NOT?
ANY INITIATIVE, ANY FUNDING, ANY
HELP GIVEN TO HELP YOUNG BLACK
MALES, NOT JUST BLACK MALES, BUT
ALL YOUNG MEN OF COLOR TO HELP
THEM BECOME AS SUCCESSFUL AS
THEY COULD POSSIBLY BE, HELP
THEM TO REALLY FIND THEIR HOPES
AND THEIR DREAMS HELP THEM TO
BECOME ALL THAT THEY'RE DUSTINED
TO BE.
HOW COULD YOU NOT BE ENCOURAGED
BY THAT.
AND I THINK I WAS ABLE TO DO
THAT WITH JORDAN PERSONALLY BY
HOME SCHOOLING HIM BUT SO
EXCITED ABOUT THE INITIATIVE FOR
OTHER MEN OF COLOR.
>> I WANTED TO PLAY FOR YOU
SOMETHING ELSE THE PRESIDENT
SAID TODAY IN THAT ROOM WITH
YOU.
THIS WAS A MOMENT THE ENTIRE
COUNTRY NOW REMEMBERS.
THIS WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN HE
SAID THAT THE UNFORGETTABLE
WORDS ABOUT TRAYVON MARTIN.
>> BUT, OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS A
TRAGEDY.
I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT THESE
PARENTS ARE GOING THROUGH.
IF I HAD A SON, HE'D LOOK LIKE
TRAYVON.
AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY'RE
RIGHT TO EXPECT THAT ALL OF US
AS AMERICANS ARE GOING TO TAKE
THIS WITH THE SERIOUSNESS THAT
IT DESERVES AND THAT WE'RE GOING
TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF EXACTLY
WHAT HAPPENED.
>> DO YOU FEEL, LUCY, YOU KNOW,
DON WAS TALKING A MOMENT AGO WHO
WAS THERE IN THE ROOM TALKING
ABOUT A FRUSTRATION AMONG MANY
IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN
COMMUNITY THAT THE PRESIDENT
HADN'T DIRECTLY ADDRESSED SOME
OF THESE ISSUES IN A FRONT AND
CENTER WAY UNTIL NOW.
DID YOU SHARE THAT FRUSTRATION?
DO YOU THINK THINGS HAVE
CHANGED?
>> I DEFINITELY WOULD NOT SAY
THAT IT HAD NOT BEEN ANYTHING HE
HAD CONSIDERED BEFORE.
I THINK THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS
ALWAYS BEEN VERY CANDID IN
LETTING THE COUNTRY KNOW THAT HE
IS THE PRESIDENT FOR ALL
CITIZENS.
NOT JUST BLACK AND NOT JUST
WHITE BUT I THINK IN LIGHT OF
EVERYTHING THAT HAS REALLY
PARTICULARLY BEEN HAPPENING WITH
YOUNG MEN OF COLOR AND
PARTICULARLY WITHIN THE LAST FEW
YEARS.
I THINK THAT HE HAS FOUND THAT,
YOU KNOW, IT'S TIME NOW THAT HE
BRING THIS TO THE FOREFRONT,