Former President Barack Obama’s Twitter response to recent white supremacist violence in Charlottesville was the most popular tweet in the website’s history.
“People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love…”
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 13, 2017
“…For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” – Nelson Mandela
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 13, 2017
The quote, which was split into two tweets, has so far earned a total of 2.4 million likes and upwards of 798,000 retweets.
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It is encouraging to see such support for a message of peace, after the current president failed for several days to condemn the racist right-wing violence which resulted in the death of Heather Heyer and the injury of nineteen other anti-racism protesters.
In a statement Saturday, President Trump spoke of hatred and bigotry from “many sides,” a comment for which many have taken him to task.
After two days of intense criticism in the media and from members of his own party, Trump finally condemned racist hate organizations “including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists.”
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