President Obama believes America still has racism

The US President Barack Obama, in an interview to Marc Maron for his podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, said that there’s still plenty of work to be done and there’s plenty of room for America to combat racism. These statements can be related to the recent incident of shooting involving a white man who shot down 9 African-Americans last week in a church in Charleston. The President also pointed out that the legacy of slavery still casts a long and dark shadow on the American way of life and added that merely choosing not to say the word “nigger” in public does not eliminate racism from the society. However, he did mention that there were improvements in the race related relations in all this time. Marc and the President had a chat for about an hour where the President talked about his own upbringing as a child born to a black father and a white mother. He also talked about being a rebel during his youth and trying on different types of personas so that he could figure out what kind of an African-American he wanted to be.

The podcast was released on Monday and immediately there was a response from the media towards the use of the n-word in the interview. Later the White House released a statement saying that this is not the first time the President has used the N-word justifying the use of the n-word in the interview. Eric Shultz, White House Deputy Press Secretary said, “ Truth is, he uses the term about a dozen times in Dreams from my Father.”

President Obama has been a lot more open to the race debates and topics in his second term, partially because of the many racial attacks in the recent years. The killing of the black teenager in Florida and the protests that followed it has forced the President to focus more on these issues.

The President also talked on the matters of introducing stricter gun control measures and also how he was criticized for giving up on the passing of the new laws. He also said that there was broad support among the American people towards changes in guns laws but also mentioned they were not going to get passed soon because of the power of the National Rifle Association.