Former President Barack Obama’s response to this week’s violence in Charlottesville has become the most liked tweet ever. The tweet, posted late Saturday, was the first in a series of three quoting former South African President Nelson Mandela.

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…”, the tweet reads, under a picture of Obama smiling at four children.

As of Wednesday morning, the tweet has garnered more than 2.9 million likes, surpassing a tweet that Ariana Grande posted earlier this year following a terrorist attack at her concert in Manchester, England. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to Mashable that Obama’s tweet is now the most liked in the site’s history. The…

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