2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
President Barack Obama and the “White Problem”
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The black American writer James Baldwin made a comment in a talk he gave in 1961 that has had haunting resonance during President Barack Obama’s presidency:
[Attorney General] Bobby Kennedy recently made the soul-stirring promise that one day—thirty years, if I’m lucky—I can be President too. It never entered this boy’s mind, I suppose—it has not entered the country’s mind yet—that perhaps I wouldn’t want to be. And in any case, what really exercises my mind is not this hypothetical day on which some other Negro “first” will become the first Negro President. What I am really curious about is just what kind of country he’ll be president of.
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