Lots of people talking about Ta-Nahesi Coates’ article in the Atlantic.
Fear of a black president
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Lots of people talking about Ta-Nahesi Coates’ article in the Atlantic.
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Coates’ is dead on target as he writes about Obama’s ability to avoid the “black rage” personafication of, say, a Rev. Wright. I commented here recently how Obama must not, and cannot, be seen as an “angry black man”, and that, I believe, this is why he comes off as ultra- concillitory towards the opposition which, for a black man raised in this country, is a learned behavior.
He recently commented in an interview with the Associated Press—-something to the effect that—-if he was re-elected, the Opposition would no longer have reasons to try to oppose him anymore, and that he stood ready to compromise on a whole range of issues if they chose not to obstruct his proposals for the country. If true, I think history will not just record that he was our first black president, but that he was our most naive and aloof one.
I’m gonna go with the latter.