Obama: ‘Just Not True’ There’s this ‘Enormous Polarization’ in America Today

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BARACK OBAMA: "So when we start suggesting that somehow there’s this enormous polarization and we’re back to the situation in the 60s and — that’s just not true. You’re not seeing riots, you’re not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully. You’ve seen almost uniformly peaceful protests and you’ve seen uniformly police handling those protests with professionalism. As hard as depressing as the loss of life was this week, we’ve got a foundation to build on. We just have to have confidence that we can build on those better angels of our nature. And we have to make sure that all of us step back, do some reflection, and make sure that the rhetoric that we engage in is constructive. And not destructive. That we’re not painting anybody with an overly broad brush. That we’re not constantly thinking the worst in other people rather than the best. If we do that then I’m confident we’ll continue to make progress."