{"id":395687,"date":"2017-01-06T10:38:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T08:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=395687"},"modified":"2017-01-06T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T08:38:12","slug":"president-obama-talks-race-relations-calls-alleged-hate-crime-in-facebook-video-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/fr\/2017\/01\/president-obama-talks-race-relations-calls-alleged-hate-crime-in-facebook-video-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Talks Race Relations, Calls Alleged Hate Crime in Facebook Video 'Terrible'"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"NewsHub\"$ President Obama said \u00ab\u00a0we appear to have seen\u00a0\u00bb a hate crime in the alleged attack on a Chicago man captured on Facebook.
\u00ab\u00a0It’s terrible,\u00a0\u00bb he said about the incident, during an interview with ABC affiliate WLS in Chicago.
\u00ab\u00a0We’ve seen over the last several years, when it comes to tensions between police and communities, the Internet, horrific hate crimes of the sort that we appear to have seen on Facebook today,\u00a0\u00bb Obama said.
He said he believed technology can play a useful role in exposing racism and hatred that still exist in the country.
\u00ab\u00a0Part of what technology allows us to see now is the terrible toll that racism and discrimination and hate takes on families and communities,\u00a0\u00bb he said. \u00ab\u00a0But that’s part of how we learn and how we get better. \u00ab\u00a0
In Thursday\u2019s White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest declined to say whether the alleged crime amounted to a hate crime but called it \u00ab\u00a0disturbing\u00a0\u00bb and said the images demonstrate \u00ab\u00a0a level of depravity that is an outrage to a lot of Americans. \u00ab\u00a0
Though Obama said he thinks race relations have \u00ab\u00a0gotten better\u00a0\u00bb in the country for the most part, he said reports like this show the work still to be done. \u00ab\u00a0In some ways, we have surfaced tensions that were already there but are getting more attention,\u00a0\u00bb he said.
He also said that gun violence in Chicago, his adopted hometown, has been \u00ab\u00a0a heartbreaking situation to see\u00a0\u00bb and that he is committed to being \u00ab\u00a0part of the solution\u00a0\u00bb directly and through his presidential center after he leaves the White House.
After they leave the White House, the Obamas will be staying in Washington, D. C., until his younger daughter graduates from the high school she’s been attending. But Obama has said he plans to spend a lot more time in Chicago after his term is over.<\/p>\n

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