Obama: America Is “Less Racially Divided” Today Than When I Took Office

Seriously?
There’s race riots all over the country but Obama says America is “less racially divided.”
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Looters rob and torch a Ferguson store in November.

Barack Obama actually told NPR that America is less racially divided today than when he took office.
And the issue has “surfaced in a way that probably is healthy.”
FOX News reported:

Is the United States more racially divided than it was when you took office six years ago, Mr. President?

No, I actually think that it’s probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided. But I actually think that the issue has surfaced in a way that probably is healthy.

I mean, 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 — and for a variety of reasons.

In some cases, something as simple as the fact that everybody has cellphones now so that you can record some of these events, you know, it’s gotten a lot of attention; I think that’s good. I think it then points to our ability to solve these problems.

It’s understandable the polls might say, you know, that race relations have gotten worse — because when it’s in the news and you see something like Ferguson or the Garner case in New York, then it attracts attention. But I assure you, from the perspective of African-Americans or Latinos in poor communities who have been dealing with this all their lives, they wouldn’t suggest somehow that it’s worse now than it was 10, 15 or 20 years ago.

As Milwaukee Sheriff Clarke has said, “Obama built this racial divide.”

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