Barack Obama Broke Schoolmate’s Nose for Calling Him Racial Slur

Barack Obama revealed when he was a kid, he once responded to racism with violence … by popping his own friend in the nose.

The former President was speaking with Bruce Springsteen on their new Spotify podcast, “Renegades: Born in the USA,” and amid a wide-ranging conversation about their lives, politics, music and race … Obama recalled the incident with a classmate.

He says the kid was a friend he played basketball with, and one time they got into a fight and his friend called him a racial slur … different from the n-word.

Obama says he doesn’t even think his schoolmate knew what the word meant — just that it was meant to be hurtful — so he “popped him in the face and broke his nose” while they were in the locker room.

Obama says his friend asked him why he did that, and he told him … “Don’t ever call me something like that.”

According to Spotify … Barack and Bruce have been friends since they met on the campaign trail in 2008. The Prez awarded the famous singer the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.