Obama’s Claim That He Broke a Racist Classmate’s Nose Is Met with Skepticism
For Americans who’ve spent years with Barack Obama in the public eye, this might be hard to believe.
But after eight years in the White House, three full-blown autobiographies and countless public appearances where the issue of race has either been the main topic of talk or was bubbling just beneath the surface, the 44th president still has at least one story he never told before.
And he was striking a blow against racism — literally.
In an episode of his podcast “Renegades: Born in the USA” released Monday with the liberal singer Bruce Springsteen, Obama brought up a hitherto unknown episode from his teen years in Hawaii, when a then-friend called him a racial slur during a locker room confrontation.
