President Obama said that America is less racially divided than it was six years ago in an interview with NPR set to air Monday.
NPR Host Steve Inskeep asked Mr. Obama if the U.S. is more racially divided than it was when he took office in 2008.
“No I actually think that it’s probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided,” Mr. Obama responded, NPR reported.
Mr. Obama’s comment comes on the heels of protesting over racial police violence after grand juries decided not to indict police officers for the killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y.
Following the grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Dan Pantaleo in the killing of Mr. Garner, Mr. Obama said that racial bias in the justice system was an “American problem.”
“It’s incumbent on all of us as Americans…that we recognize that this is an American problem and not just a black problem. It is an American problem when anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law,” Mr. Obama said in a news conference earlier this month.
• Kellan Howell can be reached at khowell@washingtontimes.com.
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