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This is more the passage for context.***** it don’t matter who said it first or how they meant it...People still took it and ran with it. Even non blacks were calling dude the first black president.
Toni Morrison called him “the first black president” and added "Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas".
Lol at those qualities being what makes you “black”....So that’s exactly how he got the moniker. RIP Toni Morrison but let Trump say that exact same quote and your ***** *** would have the pitchforks ready.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/05/comment-6543
African-American men seemed to understand it right away. Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas. And when virtually all the African-American Clinton appointees began, one by one, to disappear, when the President’s body, his privacy, his unpoliced sexuality became the focus of the persecution, when he was metaphorically seized and body-searched, who could gainsay these black men who knew whereof they spoke? The message was clear: “No matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how much coin you earn for us, we will put you in your place or put you out of the place you have somehow, albeit with our permission, achieved. You will be fired from your job, sent away in disgrace, and—who knows?—maybe sentenced and jailed to boot. In short, unless you do as we say (i.e., assimilate at once), your expletives belong to us.”
You want to make the argument she was sloppy with her analogy, then fine. But she was not just saying Clinton was back because of those things. All I was doing was pointing out the sista's words been misconstrued by folk. And I doubt your boy Trump, a known racist, would be writing passages about how black people get railroaded by elites.
I know since your Zaddy Kanye rocking with Trump you want to defend him too, but I'm done entertaining you nonsense.
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