Obama published a blog post on Medium urging activists to reject feeling cynical about the importance of voting.
In his blog post, Obama said the protests represent "a genuine and legitimate frustration over a decades-long failure to reform police practices and the broader criminal justice system in the United States."
But the former president criticized "the small minority of folks who've resorted to violence in various forms, whether out of genuine anger or mere opportunism" for "putting innocent people at risk, compounding the destruction of neighborhoods that are often already short on services and investment and detracting from the larger cause."
Obama, who has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, argued that reforming police departments can come through the ballot box. He advocated for increased civic participation in state and local elections, and encouraged activists to craft specific demands to hold accountable leaders who might otherwise "offer lip service to the cause and then fall back into business as usual" once the protests have died down.
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