When Donald Trump clinched the last number of electoral votes to win the presidential election most didn’t know what to think or let alone do. President Obama was faced with the task of how to tell his daughters that the man he’s criticized for months is now going to be our next President.
In an interview with New Yorkers David Remnick, Obama opened up about how he broke the news to his daughters.
“What I say to them is that people are complicated. Societies and cultures are really complicated…This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry. These are living organisms, and it’s messy. And your job as a citizen and as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and understanding. And you should anticipate that at any given moment there’s going to be flare-ups of bigotry that you may have to confront, or may be inside you and you have to vanquish. And it doesn’t stop…You don’t get into a fetal position about it. You don’t start worrying about apocalypse. You say, O.K., where are the places where I can push to keep it moving forward.”
