With a sniper on the roof and Secret Service personnel all around on Friday, Marc Maron welcomed President Barack Obama to his Highland Park garage as a guest on his "WTF' podcast. After chit chat about Maron's decorating abilities and Obama's Occidental College days, the two got down to serious business to talk racism in America --  an exchange that resulted in the president using the n-word."Racism, we are not cured of it,' Obama said.


"And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say 'n' in public. That's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don't, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior.'

(The White House has released a statement about Obama's comments, pointing out that this is not a unique occurrence and he also used this term in his memoir "Dreams From My Father').


The comments came after Obama spoke of the horror of the South Carolina shooting, declaring again that "way too often' during his presidency, he's had to "speak to the country and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss.' Read more