Barack Quote by Chris Rock

So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress.…

— Chris Rock

“If Barack Obama came to embody America’s history of racial progress, then Donald Trump should come to embody America’s history of racist progress. And…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The dictionary says progress means moving forward. Herbert Hoover was just a boy in Iowa. Then he lived all over the world helping solve…

— Anne Ylvisaker

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with…

— Chris Rock

I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community…

— Terrence Howard

The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though,…

— Timothy Noah

Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people…

— Chris Rock

Barack Obama is not black America's messiah.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say this seriously…

— Harry Reid

I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the…

— Gianfranco Fini

Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he's the…

— John Lewis