Barack Obama is opening up about his childhood experiences with racism. In the second episode of his recently launched “Renegades: Born in the USA” podcast with Bruce Springsteen, the former president recounted the time he got into a fight with a former friend who called him a racial slur. “Listen, when I was in school, I had a friend.
We played basketball together,” he began. “And one time we got into a fight, and he called me a c**n. Now, first of all, ain’t no c**ns in Hawaii, right?
It’s one of those things where he might not even have known what a c**n was. What he knew was, ‘I can hurt you by saying this.’” The former commander in chief didn’t take the incident lightly and a fight ensued. “I remember I popped him in the face and broke
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