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By DANIEL MATTHEWS<\/a> <\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 12:08 EDT, 3 August 2025 | Updated: 12:08 EDT, 3 August 2025 <\/p>\n

Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl accused Barack Obama<\/a> of ‘dividing’ America over race in a brutal verdict on the former president’s legacy.<\/p>\n

Pearl has been in charge of the Tigers<\/a> since 2014 and has won more games than any other Auburn coach in history. In recent months, however, he has been linked with a move into the Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on Outkick with Dan Dakich, Pearl claimed that part of his job is to inspire his players to believe that they can achieve anything – both on and off the court.<\/p>\n

‘I’m trying to teach my guys: I don’t want you working at Subway, I want you owning five of them,’ he said. ‘In many ways, Barack Obama told a different story.’<\/p>\n

Pearl suggested, in fact, that Obama – America’s first African American president, who served between 2009 and 2017 – did more harm than good when it comes to race relations.<\/p>\n

‘I get so frustrated when I hear what a terrible country we are. How racist we are, how this is not the land of opportunity for everybody,’ the Tigers coach said.<\/p>\n

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Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl accused Barack Obama of ‘dividing’ America over race<\/p>\n

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‘We have a lot to work on and there is racism that absolutely does exist and it’s wrong. But it’s a lot better for my players than it was for their fathers or their father’s fathers.<\/p>\n

‘And so I want my guys to recognize there are going to be obstacles but not roadblocks. And that’s what Barack Obama did… I disagree with so many of his policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I thought in so many ways, rather than uniting us as a country, even by race, he divided us. Everything was black and white, everything was (about) the obstacles that were against my players from being successful.’<\/p>\n

Pearl knew that his comments were likely to spark a backlash from Obama supporters, claiming: ‘It’s hard to criticize him though because you get a lot of feedback that’s really, really negative.’<\/p>\n

And tennis legend Martina Navratilova was among those who disagreed with the Auburn coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘This kind of logic is no different from men saying the woman who was raped asked for it because she wore a skirt,’ she wrote on X. ‘Racists need to stop being racist, black people cannot do that for them.’<\/p>\n

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