
In a televised interview on Tuesday, former President Jimmy Carter claimed that animosity towards President Obama is due to the president's blackness.
In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, Carter stated the following:
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American," Carter said. "I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shared the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African Americans"
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