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HOPE AND CHANGE: Obama Enthusiastically Supports Mizzou’s Radical Race Protesters

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President Barack Obama has come out in favor of the protesters at the University of Missouri who have brought down the school’s two highest ranking officials and came somewhat close to costing the football team a forfeit over a poop swastika and an alleged racial slur yelled by some off-campus bumpkins in a pickup truck.

“There is clearly a problem at the University of Missouri, and that’s not just coming from students,” Obama told ABC News journalist George Stephanopoulos. “That’s coming from some faculty.” (RELATED: Meet The Sick Mizzou Media Professor Who Threatened A Reporter With MOB VIOLENCE)

“I think it is entirely appropriate for students in a thoughtful, peaceful way to protest what they see as injustices or inattention to serious problems in their midst,” Obama added.

The president also said he is enthused about several days of marches and protests on the taxpayer-funded Mizzou campus.

“I want an activist student body just like I want an activist citizenry, and the issue is just making sure that even as these young people are getting engaged, getting involved, speaking out that they’re also listening,” Obama told Stephanopoulos, according to The Kansas City Star. “I’d rather see them err on the side of activism than being passive.” (RELATED: Liberal Activists Upset Paris Terrorist Attacks Are Getting Attention, Not Mizzou Protests)

“The civil rights movement happened because there was civil disobedience, because people were willing to go to jail,” the president pontificated. (RELATED: University Of Missouri Football Players BOYCOTT FOOTBALL Over Black Activist’s Hunger Strike)

Obama was himself a protester of South African apartheid as a college student, ABC noted.

Stephanopoulos’s exciting White House interview with Obama occurred on Thursday, prior to the Paris terrorist attack on Friday.

At the time Obama sounded highly confident about his strategy to contain ISIS.

“I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” Obama told Stephanopoulos. “From the start our goal has been first to contain, and we have continued them.” (RELATED: Obama: ISIS Not Gaining Strength [VIDEO])

Earlier this year, in February, Obama told Vox that America’s press “overstates the level of alarm people should have” about the threat of international terrorism. “What’s the famous saying about local newscasts, right? If it bleeds, it leads, right?” Obama asked.

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