Obama: Nation Less Racially Divided Now Than Six Years Ago

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The nation is less racially divided today than it was six years ago, President Barack Obama says.

In an excerpt from a 40-minute interview the president gave National Public Radio on Dec. 18, which was made available Friday, Obama asserted that low morale about race relations is exaggerated by the reactions across the country to recent racially charged violence, including the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police and the revenge slayings of two New York City Police Department officers.

Asked whether there’s more racial division now than when he took office in 2009, Obama replied, “No,” NPR reports.

“I actually think that it’s probably, in its day-to-day interactions, less racially divided,” he declared.

The president’s assertion, however, appears to contradict what recent polls have found.

Fifty-three percent of Americans think race relations have worsened under Obama, compared with 36 percent who say they have stayed the same and 9 percent who say they have improved, a Bloomberg Politics poll found earlier this month.

The president’s optimism on race relations came just a day after first lady Michelle Obama and the president detailed the racial prejudice they’d experienced in their lives.

“I think people forget that we’ve lived in the White House for six years,” the first lady told People magazine.

“Before that, Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the south side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.”

Added the president: “There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.” Read more.

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12 COMMENTS

  1. He has taken the ‘Big Lie’ utilized by the Nazi propaganda machine and enhanced it. I can’t believe we endured 6 years of this and have more to go.

  2. Rather than try to understand why they don’t hand him their keys and why the jails are filled with blacks he chooses to say there is less divide.

    As an aside, I wouldn’t hand him my keys even now. He is the most dishonest person I’ve ever seen.

  3. We all know that it worsened much since he got into office and did everything in his power to worsen it.

    He was voted in for the sake of being able to say, see we voted in a black man. That was the one thing he had going for him. And yet, he never allowed Americans to be able to say that, always insisting that this country is too racist.

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