A tweet from Barack Obama drew to a greater extent than than 2 as well as one-half meg “likes” past times Mon equally the sometime U.S.A. president offered a message of tolerance next a deadly weekend clash at a white supremacist rally.
“No 1 is born hating about other mortal because of the color of his peel or his background or his religion,” Obama said inward the message, quoting the belatedly South African leader Nelson Mandela.
"No 1 is born hating about other mortal because of the color of his peel or his background or his religion..." pic.twitter.com/InZ58zkoAm— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 13, 2017
Obama’s tweet garnered to a greater extent than than 2.5 meg “likes,” the instant virtually pop of all time, according to the Twitter-tracking site Favstar. The message was retweeted over 1 meg times.
Obama’s tweet struck a chord afterward the expiry of a 32-year-old adult woman hitting past times a automobile driven into a crowd past times a suspected white supremacist on Sabbatum inward Charlottesville, Virginia.
President Donald Trump drew burn downward for a tepid initial answer to the violence, as well as he followed upwardly Mon alongside a stronger condemnation of “those who spread violence inward the lift of bigotry.”
Obama gave additional quotes from Mandela.
“People must larn to hate, as well as if they tin larn to hate, they tin last taught to love,” a tweet read.
“For dearest comes to a greater extent than naturally to the human catch than its opposite.”
The most-liked tweet of all fourth dimension was from vocalizer Ariana Grande before this yr — maxim “from the bottom of my heart, i am as well as thus so sorry” — afterward a deadly assail at her Manchester concert.
That tweet dethroned the pop photograph tweet from the 2014 Oscars ceremony past times actress Ellen DeGeneres.
Obama’s tweet likewise prompted to a greater extent than than 37,000 responses, including both positive as well as negative comments.
AFP