Black Quote by Douglas Wilder

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too…

— Alveda King

There were people who voted for Obama simply because he was the first African-American. We had a lot of people that would not have…

— Rush Limbaugh

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is…

— Glenn Reynolds

A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as…

— Gloria Steinem

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

— Alveda King

We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.

— Bob Beckel

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

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama…

— Nat Hentoff

Electing the first African-American president was a tremendous accomplishment, but it hasn't erased racism.

— Jack Schlossberg

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

— Samuel L. Jackson

My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of…

— Patrisse Cullors

I can't tell you, I couldn't put a number on it, but it's big, the number of white voters in America that voted for…

— Rush Limbaugh