President Obama and his family several years ago
Addressing protests over minorities killed by police officers,
President Obama said racism is “deeply rooted” in the U.S.
“This is something that is
deeply rooted in our society, it’s deeply rooted in our history,” Mr. Obama
said in an interview with BET, a portion of which was released Sunday. “When
you’re dealing with something as deeply rooted as racism or bias … you’ve got
to have vigilance but you have to recognize that it’s going to take some time,
and you just have to be steady so you don’t give up when we don’t get all the
way there.”
Mr. Obama
held meetings at the White House last week with young
civil-rights activists who are protesting the shooting death of an unarmed
black teenager by a white police officer last August in Ferguson , Missouri
