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Black President Quotes

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Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.  (Black President Quotes) You’ve got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You’ve got a black president. We’ve got wars. We’ve got unemployment. But the music doesn’t reflect that. And I challenge anybody to show me a music that’s on the radio that reflects that.  (Black President Quotes) (Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama - a ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.  (Black President Quotes) It’s an important moment. I just feel like I want it to happen tonight, either for myself or Viola [Davis] so we can get past it, so it’s not big news anymore. I mean, it is 2015. We have a black president.  (Black President Quotes) I think that having a black president in this country has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going on racially in America. I think that America is now engaging with how we have come to this point.  (Black President Quotes) Whites who otherwise were able to tolerate a black president, Obama, because on certain issues he appealed to them on substance, Trump was able to reach down into some of those same people and pull out this racism inside them.  (Black President Quotes) Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can’t get into any of New York’s better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it’s official, he really is America’s first black president.  (Black President Quotes) Donald Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called birthers. He promoted the racist lie that President Obama is not really an American citizen, part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America’s first black president.  (Black President Quotes) There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president.  (Black President Quotes) Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was. And if he saw that poor and working people were not at the center of public policy, he would be deeply, deeply upset.  (Black President Quotes) With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.  (Black President Quotes) Listen, we’ve got one little ol’ black president, and white folks are upset, but they’ve had 43.  (Black President Quotes) Our black president can’t say that he’s for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.  (Black President Quotes) I don’t look to a man to get pride in myself. It’s not about having a black president, it’s about having a good president, and I think that’s the most important thing.  (Black President Quotes) The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president  (Black President Quotes) Is it possible that more black people hate the President than are actually alive?  (Black President Quotes) In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it’s very raw. I mean, c’mon, we have a black president. That’s a major thing, and there are so many other significant occurrences that have come from the 60s and 70s up to now.  (Black President Quotes) We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It’s no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.  (Black President Quotes) The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president - I think there was, without a doubt, a whitelash and a complete backlash against the liberation of women, against the power of people of color.  (Black President Quotes) I wonder what it’s like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America’s first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.  (Black President Quotes) White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he’s a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!  (Black President Quotes) [Donald] Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim that the nation’s first black president was not a natural-born citizen. You questioned his legitimacy.In the last couple of weeks, you acknowledged what most Americans have accepted for years: The president was born in the United States.  (Black President Quotes) We do have a black president, and that means a lot. People ask, ‘What has he done?’ What he’s done is change the color up, which you see on the screen. When the head of the free world is black, there’s got to be some sort of spin-off from it.  (Black President Quotes) Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn’t realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it’s done, you can’t remember what all the fuss was about.  (Black President Quotes) Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much.  (Black President Quotes) New Rule: The rest of the world can go back to being completely jealous of America. Our majority white country just freely elected a black president, something no other democracy has ever done. Take that Canada! Where’s your nubian warrior president? Your head of state is a boring white dude named Steven Harper, and mine is a kick-ass black ninja named Barack Hussein Obama!  (Black President Quotes) I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.  (Black President Quotes) There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.  (Black President Quotes) All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin’s ambassador, seconded by President Truman’s.  (Black President Quotes) President [Barack] Obama has been an unbelievable divider of this country, whether it’s rich and poor; white and black.  (Black President Quotes)
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