Alright, who’s the practical joker that spiked Obama’s coffee with LSD?

Via WaPo:

President Obama said he believes that the nation is less racially divided than when he took office in 2008, despite nationwide protests over police treatment of minorities in the wake of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases.

In a wide-ranging interview with NPR, Obama said the issue of mistrust between police and communities of color is “hardly new,” but has not been widely discussed until now. The issue, Obama said, has “surfaced in a way that is probably healthy,” and that while polls and perceptions make it appear that race relations have hit a low, those in minority communities would say otherwise.

The nation, Obama said, is “probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided.”

“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,” Obama said.