President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy for the pastor who was killed in the Charleston AME Church shooting.

According to USA Today, First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are also scheduled to attend the funeral service.

Rev. Clementa Pickney was gunned down at the historic black church along with eight other members in a vicious hate crime last week. White supremacist Dylann Roof was charged with nine counts of murder for slaying church goers at a Bible study session.

Obama said that America needs to continue to find ways to prevent mass shootings like the one that took place on Wednesday. He says there needs to be new measures that aim to keep guns away from dangerous people.

"It's not enough for us to express sympathy. We have to take action," Obama said over the weekend.

The president also addressed race relations in America following the Charleston shooting during a "WTF with Marc Maron" interview, CNN reports.

"Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say n****r in public," Obama said. "That's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don't, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior."

Obama and other politicians including 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are addressing race issues in America stating that the confederate flag needs to be taking down from State House grounds.

And while thousands of people mourn the deaths of innocent black people in South Carolina, others are calling their killer a "victim," ABC News reports.

"Dylan [sic] Roof is a victim in regards to he was a white man born to a society that actively hates him and hates his people, hates his culture and his identity," said college educated white separatist Matt Heimbach. "There is a culture war being waged. There is a war on the streets against whites."

Heimbach does not condone mass shootings against black groups but does believe America would be better off if it went back to segregation.

There are no further details on Obama's trip to South Carolina on Friday.

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