Here’s President Obama’s take on something that has dominated the news these past several weeks:
https://twitter.com/CNNWire/status/549574437889380352
Obama was speaking with NPR:
With racial issues and policing headlining the political conversation in America in the midst of nationwide protests and the murder of two police officers in New York, President Barack Obama said he believes the issue of race relations is surfacing “in a way that probably is healthy.”
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“I actually think that [the U.S. is] probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided,” Obama said in an interview with NPR released Monday and recorded before his family vacation in Hawaii. “The issue of police and communities of color being mistrustful of each other is hardly new; that dates back a long time. It’s just something that hasn’t been talked about.”
Er, the problem is there’s a lot more than “talk” going on.
Is it 2016 yet?
RT @CNNWire: Obama: Racial tensions surfacing 'probably is healthy.'http://t.co/gwXnw7uvUs
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) December 29, 2014
@Cameron_Gray @CNNWire @CNNPolitics Right!!!!
— SoCal☘️IrishGal???Cult45??⭐️ (@SoCalEdgyGal) December 29, 2014
@Cameron_Gray @CNNWire If by that he means, white America has now seen how much hate is in the permanent victimhood class . . .
— B.Z. (@bzaz) December 29, 2014
Tensions as in deaths? Wut. RT @CNNWire: Obama: Racial tensions surfacing 'probably is … http://t.co/cx4G7H4M1x
— KRenner (@KRenner2) December 29, 2014
As Bill Clinton might say, it depends on what your definition of “healthy” is.
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