Barack Quote by Cornel West

“The sober truth is that the most important civil rights battles were fought and won four decades before the Obama presidency. The black underclass…

— Jason L. Riley

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period…

— Jim Webb

“The irony of Barack Obama is this: He has become the most successful black politician in American history by avoiding the radioactive racial issues…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much…

— Howard Zinn

“Obama was born into a country where laws barring his very conception—let alone his ascendancy to the presidency—had long stood in force. A black…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“This part of the Obama formula is the most troubling, and least thought out. This judgment emerges from my own biography. I am the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified…

— Henry Giroux

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks…

— Aldis Hodge

“In a democracy, so the saying goes, the people get the government they deserve. Part of Obama’s genius is a remarkable ability to soothe…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence…

— Rick Perry

“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit…

— Michelle Alexander

The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

— Margot Lee Shetterly