Quote by Wesley Lowery

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

— Ezra Koenig

“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

“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

“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

[Barack] Obama has a grasp of language and the presentation of language, particularly in times of crisis. And he did this over the race…

— Frank Luntz

“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

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, whose signature contribution to political debate had been his relentless propagation of the lie that Barack Obama is not an American citizen,…

— James Forman Jr

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

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.

— Barack Obama

“But what I remember most is the sense of impossibility with which Obama regarded the Trump presidency. I confess to basically feeling the same.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates