NEW: In the lead-up to his full conversation with PEN America Tuesday, hear @BarackObama reflect on race and dialogue in America, channeling the spirit of James Baldwin, and the threat disinformation poses to democracy. pen.org/press-release/…
@BarackObama “Because of people’s witness of George Floyd, because of what seems like a constant stream of irrefutable evidence of excessive force against unarmed Black folks, that I think white America has awakened to certain realities that even 20 years ago they were still resistant to." 
@BarackObama “You’ve got an epistemological problem where people don’t know now entirely what’s true and what’s not...And that’s dangerous for our democracy, and I don’t think that that’s going to be solved just by a new president."
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