America Quote by Joy Reid

“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

“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

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

“Obama himself, underestimating Trump and thus underestimating the power of whiteness, believed the Republican nominee too objectionable to actually win. In this Obama was,…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of international society,…

— Gilberto Gil

“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

The [Barack] Obama administration wants to take our rights to keep and bear arms away from us. They are trying to take our God,…

— Ted Cruz

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

— Louis Farrakhan

What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.

— Joy Reid

It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when they say…

— Bill Maher

When Obama came to power, there was a lot of talk about a post-racial America.

— Ezra Koenig