President Obama Offers His Daughter’s Advice On Protesting

President Obama may be the man in charge of running a country, but that doesn’t mean his teen daughters don’t have their own beliefs. POTUS talked to Sasha and Malia about the campus protests taking place at Mizzou and Yale. 

“We talk about this at the dinner table,”  President Obama tells The Week.  “And I say to them, ‘Listen, if you hear somebody using a racial epithet, if you hear somebody who’s anti-Semitic, if you see an injustice, I want you to speak out. I want you to protect people who may not have voices themselves, I want you to be somebody who’s strong and sees themselves as somebody who’s looking out for the vulnerable.’ “

President Obama went on to say that while it’s important for his daughter’s voices to be heard, it’s equally important that they listen. “But I tell ’em: ‘I want you also to be able to listen. I don’t want you to think that a display of your strength is simply shutting other people up,” he said. “‘And that part of your ability to bring about change is going to be by engagement and understanding the viewpoints and the arguments of the other side.’ “

As far as whether he thinks his daughter’s can hold their own, POTUS has no doubts. “I tell you: I trust Malia in an argument,” he told The Week. “If a knucklehead on a college campus starts talking about her, I guarantee you she will give as good as she gets.”

Awesome advice from President O. 

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