American citizen Quote by James Forman Jr

“People frequently lie—to themselves and to others. In 2008, Americans told surveys that they no longer cared about race. Eight years later, they elected…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Barack Obama so spooked the bigoted whites of this country that we are now faced with a racist explicitness that we haven’t seen since…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Pointing to citizens who voted for both Obama and Trump does not disprove racism; it evinces it. To secure the White House, Obama needed…

— 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

“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

[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen. There…

— Hillary Clinton

“As someone possessed of perhaps the best raw political instincts of any Republican in his generation, Trump had intuited, correctly, that a racist attack…

— Joshua Green

The evidence of our divided racial self was all over the Obama presidency from the beginning: from the shouts of 'you lie' from the…

— Joy Reid

Donald Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called birthers. He promoted the racist lie that President Obama is not really…

— Hillary Clinton

When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make…

— Larry Wilmore

Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a way that…

— Anderson Cooper