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Published September 28, 2014

September 27, 2014: President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations 44th Annual Legislative Conference Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama on Saturday said the widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Mo. is corroding America, not just its black communities, and that the wariness flows from significant racial disparities in the administration of justice.

Speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual awards dinner, Obama said these suspicions only harm communities that need law enforcement the most.

"It makes folks who are victimized by crime and need strong policing reluctant to go to the police because they may not trust them," he said. "And the worst part of it is it scars the hearts of our children," leading some youngsters to unnecessarily fear people who do not look like them while leading others to constantly feel under suspicion no matter what they do.

"That is not the society we want," Obama said. "It's not the society that our children deserve."

The fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August sparked days of violent protests and racial unrest in predominantly black Ferguson. The police officer who shot Brown was white.

Obama addressed the matter carefully but firmly, saying the young man's death and the raw emotion that sprang from it had reawakened the country to the fact that "a gulf of mistrust" exists between local residents and law enforcement in too many communities.

"Too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement -- guilty of walking while black or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and hopelessness," he said.

He said significant racial disparities remain in the enforcement of law, from drug sentencing to applying the death penalty, and that a majority of Americans think the justice system treats people of different races unequally.

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President Barack Obama challenged black voters to turn out for Novembers congressional elections if they want to see more of the racial progress in society that allowed him to become the nations first black president.

In remarks last night at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations annual conference, Obama ticked off a list of achievements that he said showed the enormous progress in the U.S., including steady job growth, a decline in the number of people without health insurance and a falling crime rate.

But our works not done, he said. He spoke of the killing of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri, and said he hoped that one day children, black and white, wont be scared by discrimination, where everyone has at least a chance for an education and a job.

Prayers and good intentions arent enough, he said.

We have to get back to our schools, our offices, our churches, our beauty shops, our barber shops, he said. Make sure people know there is an election coming up. They need to know how to register, and they need to know how and when to vote. We have to tell them to push back against the cynics.

Obamas address underscored a reality Democrats around the country are facing with less than six weeks before the Nov. 4 mid-term congressional elections: voter enthusiasm is a problem. Voter turnout from groups crucial to the partys recent victories -- young people, minorities and women -- historically declines in midterm elections.

Seven of the 21 Senate seats being defended by Democrats are in states that Obama lost in the last presidential election. Republicans need a net gain of six seats to gain control of the chamber and polls show they are in reach of that goal.

Smiling, Obama told the audience that people often wish him well, note that hes getting gray hair and looking tired and say theyre praying for him.

But we need more than prayer. We need to vote, Obama said. It will not relieve me of my gray hair, but it will help me pass some bills.

National Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a potential presidential candidate in 2016, have focused on Republican efforts to change voting laws as a way to increase urgency among the partys voters for the midterms.

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With the announcement of Attorney General Eric Holders intention to resign earlier this week, President Obama is losing not just a key political ally, but one of the few personal friends in his inner circle.

The close relationship between the two men was evident for some time, vacationing together on Marthas Vineyard in the summers and spending down time with each others families back in Washington.

Holder, tearing up, told Obama that they had been great colleagues, but the bonds between us are much deeper than that.

In good times and in bad, in things personal and in things professional, you have been there for me, Holder continued. Im proud to call you my friend.

The rare partnership between the two allowed Holder greater latitude to pursue an ambitious civil rights agenda during his nearly six years helming the Justice Department. It also created the occasional headache in the West Wing, where staffers felt Holder had particular sway over and an exceedingly long leash from the president.

While its unlikely that the next attorney general will replicate that level of personal friendship with the president, Holder isnt totally unique in the presidents inner circle. Here are five other top Obama administration figures who share both a close personal and professional relationship with the president.

Arne Duncan

The president and his Education Secretary who, after Holders departure, will be one of just two original Cabinet secretaries remaining have a history reaching back to Chicago, where Duncan served as the citys school superintendent.

Duncan was a basketball standout at Harvard, where Obama attended law school, and both had ties to the University of Chicago. Obamas daughters attended the universitys prep school which Duncan graduated from before the president took office, and Duncans wife served as athletic director there.

But their friendship was solidified over pickup basketball games, including, most famously, when a team headed by Duncan squared off against one led by Obama on Election Day 2008.

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