{"id":176588,"date":"2021-02-26T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T16:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=176588"},"modified":"2021-02-26T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T16:59:10","slug":"obama-says-he-once-broke-schoolmates-nose-for-calling-him-racial-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-says-he-once-broke-schoolmates-nose-for-calling-him-racial-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Says He Once Broke Schoolmate\u2019s Nose For Calling Him Racial Slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-says-he-once-broke-schoolmates-nose-for-calling-him-racial-slur%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=176588&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/obama-2-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama says he once broke the nose of one of his basketball teammates for calling him a racial slur.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.spotify.com\/media-kit\/renegades-born-in-the-usa-podcast-transcripts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">podcast<\/a> with rock star Bruce Springsteen this week, Obama recounted the story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, when I was in school, I had a friend. We played basketball together,\u201d Obama told on Spotify\u2019s \u201cRenegades: Born in the USA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd one time we got into a fight and he called me a c**n,\u201d Obama said of the argument that took place in the locker room. \u201cNow first of all, ain\u2019t no c\u2013ns in Hawaii, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things that \u2014 where he might not even known what a c**n was \u2014 what he knew was, \u2018I can hurt you by saying this,\u2019\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I remember I popped him in the face and broke his nose. And we were in the locker room\u2026I explained to him \u2014 I said, \u2018Don\u2019t you ever call me something like that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After hearing the tale, Springsteen applauded the move, saying, \u201cWell done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former leader of the free world mentioned the incident briefly in his 1995 memoir \u201cDreams of My Father,\u201d but it\u2019s reportedly the first time he\u2019s spoken about the incident publicly.<\/p>\n<p>In the book, Obama described racial tension growing up in\u00a0Hawaii and finding solace on the basketball court before being called the slur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mind would run down a ledger of slights: the first boy, in seventh grade, who called me a c\u2013n; his tears of surprise\u00a0 \u2014 \u2018why\u2019dya do that?\u2019 \u2014 when I gave him a bloody nose,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The new story differs a bit from the one he tells in his 1995 memoir, \u201cDreams of My Father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the book, Obama recounted racial tension when he grew up in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mind would run down a ledger of slights: the first boy, in seventh grade, who called me a c\u2013n; his tears of surprise\u00a0 \u2014 \u2018why\u2019dya do that?\u2019 \u2014 when I gave him a bloody nose,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians have a way of adding to stories as the years pass.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden this week revived a story he told years ago that he was \u201cshot at\u201d overseas, mirroring a claim once made by Hillary Clinton about which she later said she \u201cmisspoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a short address to State Department employees, Biden said, \u201cYou have great personal courage. I\u2019ve been with some of you when we\u2019ve been shot at.\u201d He offered no further details of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007, Biden was forced to walk back a similar claim during a CNN-hosted Democratic presidential debate. Then, he said he was \u201cshot at\u201d inside Baghdad\u2019s fortified Green Zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s start telling the truth,\u201d he said at the debate. \u201cNumber one, you take all the troops out \u2014 you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at. You better make sure you have protection for them, or let them die, number one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden later said, \u201cI was near where a shot landed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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