Obama says he once broke a classmate's nose for calling him a racial slur
By Judy Kurtz - 02/23/21 11:03 AM EST Former President Obama says he once broke a schoolmate's nose after the then-friend called him a racial slur during a locker room fight.
The 44th president shared the revelation in an episode of his Spotify podcast with Bruce Springsteen, "Renegades," released Monday.
"Listen, when I was in school, I had a friend. We played basketball together," Obama told the "Born in the U.S.A." singer during a wide-ranging conversation on race.
"And one time we got into a fight and he called me a c--n," Obama said about 13 minutes into the episode before quipping of his Aloha State upbringing to chuckles from Springsteen, "Now first of all, ain’t no c--ns in Hawaii, right?"
"It’s one of those things that where he might not even known what a c--n was — what he knew was, 'I can hurt you by saying this,'" Obama, 59, continued.
The country's first Black president added with a laugh, "And I remember I popped him in the face and broke his nose and we were in the locker room."
"Well done," Springsteen remarked.
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