African american Quote by Harry Reid

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates, Mr. Obama…

— Monica Crowley

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

— Harry Reid

Barack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking at somebody…

— John H. McWhorter

Much of America rooted for Mr. Obama simply because he is black.

— Andrew Breitbart

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

— Harry Reid

“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've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause…

— Rush Limbaugh

“I had never seen a black man like Barack Obama. He talked to white people in a new language—as though he actually trusted them…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Obama had always to field demands from some blacks to be blacker, and the wish of many whites to whitewash the story of American…

— Michael Eric Dyson

News flash to black Americans: Barack Obama has never loved you, and by now, it should be clear to you!

— Jesse Lee Peterson

“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

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation…

— Adam Yauch