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Dec 22, 2016 · In “My President Was Black,” The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates examined Barack Obama’s tenure in office, and his legacy. The story was built, in part, around a series of conversations he had...
Jun 15, 2012 · (CBS News) A new biography excerpted Friday in the Washington Post sheds light on some of President Obama's formative experiences coming to terms with his racial identity as a young...
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Nov 16, 2020 · Michel made sure to ask Obama to reflect on what did and did not occur as a result of the U.S. electing the country's first African American president. BARACK OBAMA: Here's one thing I...
The “Obama Coalition” of African American, white, Latino, Asian American and Native American voters had helped usher in an era in which institutional racism and pervasive inequality would fade as...
Dec 21, 2016 · What's unique about the president is that he was born into the house of a white woman and her parents in Hawaii, which was far, far from the fulcrum of Jim Crow at a time when...
Obama’s racial optimism—some might say delusion, enhanced by musings in the mainstream that America had entered a post-racial era after his election—denied the president the motivation, the...
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Jun 9, 2008 · A columnist examining Obama's background summed up his racial identity into one equation: white + black = black. For me, that said it all.
