Barack Quote by Eric Liu

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

— Harry Reid

Barack Obama actually grew up black in America. He knows a thing or two about being judged by the color of his skin, rather…

— Neil Macdonald

The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

“When presidential candidate Barack Obama presented himself to the black community, he was not to be believed. It strained credulity to think that a…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, 'credibility' with the black community…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The first thing I ever heard about Barack Obama was that he had a white mother and a black father. Interestingly, the person who…

— Shelby Steele

“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

I have called Mr. Obama a bound man because he cannot win white support without bargaining and he cannot maintain minority support without playing…

— Shelby Steele

“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

I heard someone the other day who said 'How can Colin Kaepernick lead this because he's mixed and he was raised by adoptive White…

— Ed Gordon

There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make…

— Ralph Nader