Obama Says Race Talk Easier as He’s Gotten Groove of Presidency
The president says he’s spoken out more on racial issues during his second term because of events and being more adjusted to office—not because he’s run his final political campaign.
US President Barack Obama speaks during a commencement ceremony at Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown, South Dakota on May 8, 2015.
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President Barack Obama said he’s spoken out more on racial issues during his second term because of events and being more adjusted to office -- not because he’s run his final political campaign.
“That I don’t buy,” Obama said in a video interview with NPR News, when asked if addressing race was easier now that he will no longer face voters. “If, in my first term, Ferguson had flared up, as president of the United States, I would have been commenting on what was happening in Ferguson.”