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“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

“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

President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of…

— Danny Glover

“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 don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I…

— Tavis Smiley

The Black experience in America now includes everything, all the way up to being the president of the United States.' But there's genres for…

— Cord Jefferson

“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

“(On Barack Obama) "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean,…

— Joe Biden

“It is utterly impossible to conjure a black facsimile of Donald Trump—to imagine Obama, say, implicating an opponent’s father in the assassination of an…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black…

— Jimmy Carter

If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and…

— Juan Williams

“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