Obama: Backlash to ‘demographic change’ based on ‘economic uncertainty’

Published June 23, 2020 11:24pm ET



Barack Obama offered an analysis of why conservatives oppose social movements such as Black Lives Matter and policy changes, including gay and transgender rights.

The former president, wearing a black suit jacket over a black shirt, spoke during a virtual grassroots fundraiser with his former vice president, Joe Biden, on Tuesday. Obama brought up mass social movements sparked in part by the death of black Minneapolis man George Floyd after being held under the knee of a white police officer.

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