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President Obama has often been guarded when discussing racism, but, on CNN Special Report about his legacy that aired on Wednesday, he addressed the issue straight on.
Obama told Fareed Zakaria, "I think there's a reason why attitudes about my presidency among whites in Northern states are very different from whites in Southern states. Are there folks whose primary concern about me has been that I seem foreign, the other? Are those who champion the 'birther' movement feeding off of bias? Absolutely."
The president denied that his troubles with Congress were race-related, but his former adviser David Axelrod, who also appeared on the program, expressed a different view, asserting, "It's indisputable that there was a ferocity to the opposition and a lack of respect to him that was a function of race."
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