When David Remnick of The New Yorker
asked President Barack Obama on what he told his two daughters and anyone
worried about the election of Donald Trump, the known often well-spoken
President summed up by admonishing that people, including his daughters Sasha
and Malia should not “get into a fetal position" thereby putting the outcome into context even as he added that "societies and
cultures are really complicated."
The
soon-to-leave office President during
the interview was quoted by the CNN saying "This is not mathematics; this
is biology and chemistry. These are living organisms, and it's messy”.
"You
don't get into a fetal position about it. You don't start worrying about
apocalypse. You say, O.K., where are the places where I can push to keep it
moving forward," Obama added.
It
is worthy of note to mention again that since Trump was elected, protests have
broken out in cities across the nation. A white nationalist was bloodied during
an anti-racist protest in Washington over the weekend.
"Your
job as a citizen and as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift
up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and
understanding," Obama told the New Yorker.
"And
you should anticipate that 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."
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