Article snippet: In a rare statement issued via Twitter on Monday afternoon, former President Obama called on Americans to reject language that “normalizes racist sentiments” in response to the shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday that left at least 22 dead. Obama didn’t mention Trump by name, but in the wake of Saturday’s shooting — in which the 21-year-old use of the word “invasion” to describe immigrants has increased over the last several months. “We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments; leaders who demonize those who don’t look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as sub-human, or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people,” Obama said in the statement. Trump on Monday condemned “racism, bigotry, and white supremacy” in remarks from the White House. Obama also said that he and his wife grieved with the families of those killed in an early Sunday shooting in Dayton, Ohio. Connor Betts, the 24-year-old gunman in the Ohio shooting, killed nine people, including his sister, in the bustling Oregon District. (While the gunman was white and six of the nine killed were black, police said the speed of the rampage made any discrimination in the shooting seem unlikely.) “No other nation on Earth comes close to experiencing the frequency of mass shootings that we see in the Unite... Link to the full article to read more