Inequality facing minority men behind unrest in Baltimore, Ferguson: Obama

AP, New York :
Following a week of racially charged protests in Baltimore, US President Barack Obama on Monday said that the residual effects of racism have built up over time and created inequality.
Speaking on one of the final episodes of the Late Show with David Letterman, Obama said the effects of slavery, Jim Crowe laws and discrimination in American history have left minority communities at a disadvantage.
“We don’t have to accuse everybody of racism today to acknowledge that as part of our past. And if we want to get past that, everybody has to make a little bit of extra effort,” Obama said.
Earlier in the day, Obama spoke at Lehman College in the Bronx where he announced the launch of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, a nonprofit organization that is a spinoff of a White House initiative to increase opportunities for young minority men.