Obama Uses N-Word and Israeli Tweet Helps Show Why
In the aftermath of last week’s fatal shooting, the president invokes the word in making the point that racism in America is “not cured.”
US President Barack Obama address the US Conference of Mayors during their annual meeting in San Francisco on June 19, 2015.
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This is an excerpt from Bloomberg's daily Opening Line column.
Barack Obama used the N-word in a discussion about racism last week. Surely that’s got to be a first for a POTUS.