Barack Obama encouraged the class of 2020 to vote and to help stop 'the spread conflict, division and falsehoods to bully people and promote hate' on social media
He also encouraged the class of 2020 to vote and to help stop"the spread conflict, division and falsehoods to bully people and promote hate" on social media.
Obama told the young people listening that these incidents, while "shocks to our system," also "remind us that we can't take things for granted." He went on to confess he feels it's "a little unfair" to lay this "heavy burden" on one generation and lamented the fact that his own generation didn't do more "to solve some of our country's big problems so you didn't have to.
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