African american Quote by Jesse Jackson

“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

There was tremendous animus to President [Barack] Obama. Many of people said he was un-American, not a Christian and worse.

— Mara Liasson

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices…

— Sam Donaldson

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

— 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

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

Barack Obama didn't say "I only want to be the President of Black people," he said "I want to be the President of the…

— LeCrae

Barack Obama is not black America's messiah.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to…

— Jesse Jackson

The white right is trying to set Barack up to be assassinated... There are Christians praying for God to kill Obama.

— Louis Farrakhan

“I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to Africa. I’m…

— Ken Hutcherson

Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal…

— Lawrence O'Donnell