The Divider-in-Chief speaks.
Via Herald Net:
After Donald Trump’s win stunned the White House, President Barack Obama was faced with the task of assuring not only his staff, but also his young daughters, that despite defeat, there will be ways to move forward.
In an extensive profile by the New Yorker, which gives an inside look at Obama before and after the election, he briefly talked about what he told his daughters, Malia, 18, and Sasha, 15, about Trump’s victory and the racial incidents that followed.
“What I say to them is that people are complicated. Societies and cultures are really complicated … This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry,” Obama told the New Yorker’s David Remnick. “These are living organisms and it’s messy. And your job as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and understandings.”[…]
Obama told his teenage daughters that they, too, must expect such racially motivated hatred.
“…at any given moment there’s going to be flare-ups of bigotry that you may have to confront, or may be inside you and you have to vanquish. And it doesn’t stop … You don’t get into a fetal position about it,” Obama said.
He echoed the same sentiment he told a defeated and somber West Wing staff the morning after Trump was elected president.
“You don’t start worrying about apocalypse,” Obama said. “You say, ‘Ok, where are the places where I can push to keep it moving forward.’”