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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Why Obama Was Different in "We Were Eight Years in Power"

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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Is Obama's Presidency Contributing to White Supremacy?

The book starts from a place of hope excitement. In many ways, you argue that obama's presidency and black leadership is in some way contributing to white supremacy. I would say it's not, you know, likei don't think od bamma did anything but be a human being. It's always the reaction to the ordinary ness, to the bourgeois ness,. o the middle class ness of normal, every day black people.

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