US President Barack Obama has said that there has been no issue related to racism and Americans are judging him by the job he's doing, not the colour of his skin.
"Right now the American people are judging me exactly the way I should be judged, and that is, are we taking the steps to improve liquidity in the financial markets, create jobs, get businesses to reopen, keep America safe?" he said at a prime-time press conference yesterday.
Replying to a query about the issue of race dominating in his first 64 days as the president, Obama said, "I think that the last 64 days has been dominated by me trying to figure out how we're going to fix the economy, and that affects black, brown and white."
"You know, obviously, at the Inauguration I think that there was justifiable pride on the part of the country that we had taken a step to move us beyond some of the searing legacies of racial discrimination in this country, but that lasted about a day," he said.