Obama Uses N-Word To Make Point

President Obama used a racial slur to underscore his point that, while the United States has made great progress on race relations, more work needs to be done, his spokesman said Monday. During a podcast taped last week, just days after the mass killings at an African-American church in Charleston, S.C., Obama said the legacies of slavery and Jim Crown too often remain in the nation’s DNA. “Racism — we are not cured of it,” he said at one point. “And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say ‘n——-r’ in public.” He added: “That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not,” he said. “It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don’t, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior.” The use of the so-called “n word” generated intense debate on social media/ The Hill . More here.

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