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Fear of a Black President

By Ta-Nehisi Coates · The Atlantic · August 2012
Fear of a Black President
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"As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to be “twice as good” and “half as black,” Obama reveals the false promise and double standard of integration."

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