Former President Barack Obama infrequently tweets in his post-presidential life, but after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, he found words of hope in Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk To Freedom, and shared with the world:
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” (@BarackObama)
Obama’s supporters were grateful for the emotional response to the national tragedy. His powerful tweet was accompanied with a photo of him joyfully greeting a group of small children of various ethnicities, which was taken during his presidency. Opposite of Trump’s remarks and his outward failure to denounce white nationalism, which drew a rapid rebuke from members of both the Republican and Democratic parties, and has also led to a number of CEOs quitting a White House advisory council. Obama taught a 140-character lesson on how to act presidential. Not to mention, Obama besting Trump at his favorite social platform. Though Twitter still remains ‘small’ compared to its social media competitors, Facebook and Instagram, it is millennial journalism that continues to captivate the world every second. Case in point, Obama has 93.3 million Twitter followers, the tweet has been liked more than three million times; and it is the most-liked tweet ever.