In a recent interview published in the AARP Bulletin, Former President Jimmy Carter indirectly invoked Baltimore and Ferguson to slam white Americans, “many” of whom he says have “racist tendencies or feelings of superiority to people of color.”

The question put to Carter by writer Charles Green of the Bulletin allowed room for a more positive reflection, but the 90-year-old former president chose to focus on the negative.

“Race relations have always been important to you,” Green asked.  “How would you assess them now?”

Carter responded:

The recent publicity about mistreatment of black people in the judicial and police realm has been a reminder that the dreams of the civil rights movement have not been realized. Many Americans still have racist tendencies or feelings of superiority to people of color.

Perhaps Carter, in his advancing years, has forgotten quite how far civil rights have come in the past five decades. One sign of his forgetfulness: he appears to remember the tension-wrought decade in which he was elected President as an Elysian paradise compared to today’s political climate.

Asked if he would be able to run for President today, Carter replied:

When hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent tearing down the reputation of an opponent in order to get elected, animosity and negativism carries on into Washington. There was harmony among congressmen when I was there, and I got just as much support from Republicans as I did from Democrats. I can’t imagine myself as a successful candidate today.

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