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> [What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-reid/what-white-america-and-black-america-wanted-and-expected-from-obama/)

[Joy Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joy-reid/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eba/joy-reid-6005_america_what-white-america-and-black-america-wan_65566.jpg)

> [I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-personally-never-expected-anything-of-obama-and-wrote-about-it-2/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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