President Barack Obama is prescribing time and vigilance to tackle problems as entrenched in American society as racism and bias, the AP reported.
In an interview with BET, the president described his conversation with a group of young civil rights activists, including a leader of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, he hosted last week in the Oval Office.
Obama said he told them that “this is something that is deeply rooted in our society, it’s deeply rooted in our history…. We can’t equate what is happening now to what was happening 50 years ago,” Obama said, “and if you talk to your parents, grandparents, uncles, they’ll tell you that things are better, not good in some places, but better.”
In dealing with something “as deeply rooted as racism or bias in any society, you’ve got to have vigilance but you have to recognize that it’s going to take some time and you just have to be steady so that you don’t give up when you don’t get all the way there,” Obama said, according to the AP report.
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Has he tackled his connection to his racist anti-semitic reverend yet?
I am tired of this. Today we live in a generation in which everyone has a chance to prove themselves. Any self respecting citizen of this country knows the importance of this. Off color jokes are whinced at. And people leave the presence of someone who espouses hate….Except the president . He came back for it weekly. And now he preaches to us?