In the following excerpt from a speech, President Obama describes three situations that he claims most African American men have experienced. Why does he use these examples?

There are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me—at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often. And you know, I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African American community interprets what happened one night in Florida.
—Barack Obama, Remarks on the George Zimmerman trial, The White House. Washington, D. C., July 19, 2013.
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to prove that he has been the victim of racial discrimination

to illustrate that racism is still part of life for African Americans

to persuade the reader that fear based on how a person looks is unjustified

to illustrate the importance of context when trying to understand a person's point of view

I think the best answer is the second one of the top. I think that prejudice is alive and well in most parts of the country. And depending on where you are, we all experience it -- some people more than others.

It seems to be part of the human make up. We hate unreasonably and often.

It's not C: He is not talking about how people look. He's talking about what they experience when they are out in public.

D: is very complex. We're not trying to understand a point of view, nor context for that matter. We trying to understand that people have a distinct way of showing their prejudice.

A: is also very hard to get rid of. In the end, this is not about victims. It is about the small ways that people display their racial prejudice. Later on in the speech, A will undoubtedly be shown to be true. But not now. Not yet.