--- title: Dallas Shooting: President Obama Says U.S. 'Not as Divided' description: President Obama cautioned Saturday that "America is not as divided as some have suggested," while acknowledging a week plagued by violence canonical: https://time.com/4399947/president-obama-u-s-division-dallas/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-09T19:46:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-06T09:40:29.968Z article:section: Politics og:title: Obama: America 'Not as Divided as Some Have Suggested' og:description: "We cannot eliminate all racial tension in our country overnight" og:url: https://time.com/4399947/president-obama-u-s-division-dallas/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1febeb6fdcb683ff/69889b54fb4eacf4ca88e3c3/barack-obama-dallas-shooting-divided.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4500 og:image:height: 2531 og:image:alt: NATO Holds Warsaw Summit og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obama: America 'Not as Divided as Some Have Suggested' twitter:description: "We cannot eliminate all racial tension in our country overnight" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1febeb6fdcb683ff/69889b54fb4eacf4ca88e3c3/barack-obama-dallas-shooting-divided.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Obama: America 'Not as Divided as Some Have Suggested' > Sponsored content. 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There’s no division there.” **Read more:** [Read President Obama’s Remarks About the Dallas Police Shooting](http://time.com/4398185/barack-obama-remarks-dallas-police-shooting/) The Dallas attack came during a peaceful protest over the [shooting deaths of two black men](http://time.com/4396220/philando-castile-minnesota-shooting/) by police officers earlier this week, fueling a national debate over [use of force by police](http://time.com/4394802/alton-sterling-police-shooting-baton-rouge/?xid=homepage) and racial disparities in the criminal justice system. But Obama rejected the idea that a dark era of U.S. history is repeating itself, saying Saturday that “we cannot eliminate all racial tension in our country overnight.” **Read more:** [Read President Obama’s Remarks On the Alton Sterling and Philando Castile Police Shootings](http://time.com/4397600/obama-alton-sterling-philando-castile-speech-transcript/) “You’re not seeing riots and you’re not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully,” he said, according to the AP. “You’ve seen almost uniformly peaceful protests and you’ve seen, uniformly, police handling those protests with professionalism.” Obama will cut his European trip short by one day and visit Dallas early next week. ## Transcript [00:00] As painful as this week has been. I firmly believe [00:04] that America is not as divided as some [00:09] have suggested. When it comes to the issue of [00:13] gun safety, there is polarization between a [00:18] very intense Minority. And [00:22] a majority of Americans who actually think that we [00:24] could be doing better when it comes to gun safety. [00:27] There is anger, there is confusion, about next steps. [00:31] But there's unity in recognizing that this is not [00:37] how We want our communities to operate. This [00:41] is not who we want to be as Americans. 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