Black President Quotes
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Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific. (Black President Quotes)
The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It’s what he does - and who he has at the table. (Black President Quotes)
It’s a new world that’s very, very difficult to make sense of. But we have a new hope. We have a new man. America has now elected its first openly black President. (Black President Quotes)
Black men - one might be the president. Well, America’s in too much trouble - I don’t want that job now. (Black President Quotes)
Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black (Black President Quotes)
I don’t think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don’t realize (Black President Quotes)
I love Obama, and I love the fact that it’s a black president of the United States of America, but he’s not the first black president. Robert Mugabe is a black president, too, so let’s not get to talking about precedents being set (Black President Quotes)
I think it’s unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president (Black President Quotes)
Wasn’t Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There’s a statue of him near me... that’s black (Black President Quotes)
President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn’t be upset if I could earn the right to be the second (Black President Quotes)
A black man will be elected President of the United States. I’m sorry, that’s in the year 10,000 (Black President Quotes)
In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary (Black President Quotes)
Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn’t been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota (Black President Quotes)
So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress (Black President Quotes)
With respect to Barack Obama, let’s face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold (Black President Quotes)
You Weigh How Much You Should Criticize The President Because Hes Black (Black President Quotes)
There’s a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America (Black President Quotes)
A black President? Now come on y’all, we got Clinton, that’s close. He got negro tendencies. (Black President Quotes)
Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people (Black President Quotes)
Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he’s an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he’s a horse (Black President Quotes)
I love Obama because he is proof all black people don’t look alike. Nobody every told me, ‘Good morning, Mr. President.’ We don’t all look alike (Black President Quotes)
A lot of people are wanting him [Barack Obama] to be the president just because he’s black. But I think he does have some good views (Black President Quotes)
First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that’s a good part of history. That’s probably the biggest person I admire right now (Black President Quotes)
I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America’s long struggle with race is far from finished (Black President Quotes)
I never thought we’d ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved (Black President Quotes)
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the ‘Law Review (Black President Quotes)
The first black president will be a politician who is black (Black President Quotes)
They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots (Black President Quotes)
Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president (Black President Quotes)
Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President (Black President Quotes)