Barack Obama on being politically “woke”

Anthony Galli
Nov 3 · 4 min read

President Obama spoke at his Obama Foundation Summit about how young people are trying to be too politically pious…

“This idea of purity and you’re never comprised and you’re always politically woke. You should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws…

[For example], if I tweet or hashtag about how…

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