<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><br></div><div><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph"><p style="font-size: 20px; " class="zn-body__paragraph"><cite class="el-editorial-source">Washington (CNN)</cite>President
Barack Obama's advice to his two daughters and anyone worried about the
election of Donald Trump is not to "get into a fetal position" and put
the outcome in contextAsked by The New Yorker's David Remnick what Obama told his daughters Sasha and Malia about the election, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency" target="_blank">the president said that "societies and cultures are really complicated."</a></p></div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-4 cn-zoneAdContainer" style="font-size: 20px; "></ul><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="font-size: 20px; ">"This
is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry. These are living
organisms, and it's messy," the departing president said in a
wide-ranging interview.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="font-size: 20px; ">"You don't
get into a fetal position about it. You don't start worrying about
apocalypse. You say, O.K., where are the places where I can push to keep
it moving forward," Obama added. </div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="font-size: 20px; ">Protests have broken out in cities across the nation since Trump was elected. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/19/politics/donald-trump-protest/">A white nationalist was bloodied during an anti-racist protest in Washington</a> over the weekend.</div><div class="zn-body__read-all"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="font-size: 20px; ">"Your
job as a citizen and as a decent human being is to constantly affirm
and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and
understanding," Obama told the New Yorker. "And you should anticipate
that at any given moment there's going to be flare-ups of bigotry that
you may have to confront, or may be inside you and you have to vanquish.
And it doesn't stop."</div></div></div></body></html>