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N-word used by President Obama in podcast interview on race
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In an interview released Monday, President Barack Obama used the n-word in a recently released podcast with comedian Marc Maron.
Obama weighed in on the national debate regarding race relations:
"And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say n----r in public," the nation's first African-American president adds. "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 200 to 300 years prior."
His frank words come following the shooting deaths of nine African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, by a white man.
The podcast also touched on gun violence and the safety laws surrounding them.
