The issues were brought to the forefront after the mass shooting carried out by gunman Dylann Roof.
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| US President Bararck Obama addressed the issues of racism and gun violence |
“First of all, I always tell young people in particular, do not say that nothing has changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or 60s, or 70s. It is incontrovertible that race relations have improved significantly during my lifetime and yours, and that opportunities have opened up, and that attitudes have changed.
What is also true is that the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, in almost every institution of our lives, that casts a long shadow, and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on. We’re not cured of it.” Obama said.
“Racism, we’re not cured of it. And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say ‘n****r’ in public. That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination... Societies don’t, overnight, completely erase everything that happened two to three hundred years prior,” he added.
The issues were brought to the forefront after the mass shooting carried out by gunman Dylann Roof.
Obama was addressing the complex issue of America’s history with racism following last week’s shooting.
“No other advanced nation on earth tolerates multiple shootings on a regular basis and considers it normal,” said Obama.
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