Well damn. What about women, chinese (& all the -ese people), "Native" americans, Hispanics, and whoever else I am probably leaving out. I feel fully equal as a citizen even though I've never seen my people in the white house. What a bunch of whiney baloney.
What he lept was the biggest pile of BS, excberated by PC, that I've ever seen.
There are plenty of black executives, business owners, independent-minded people and good family-men who serve as even better role models. Far more people can aspire toward one of these noble roles than can be president.
The idea that this country needed a black president to eliminate barriers is built on the premise that no one can move upwardly in this country because of systemic racism and other barriers, mainly borne of the free-market.
What they are really saying is that the country needed to elect a socialist or other leftist authoritarian to “fundamentally change” America to remove those barriers.
Anyone who thinks that an authoritarian is going to remove barriers to growth, I have a bridge to sell...