This week on The Confab: A post-mortem of Obama's oil spill speech. Did the president's address really address anything? Plus, the myth of "black-on-black violence" and a troubling lesson about police misconduct. Join The Root's senior editor Teresa Wiltz as she talks with staff writer Cord Jefferson, media and culture critic Natalie Hopkinson and contributor to The Root Peter Goodman.

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