In his book, @BarackObama says the single event that lost him the most white support was commenting on the arrest of Harvard prof Henry Louis Gates as He tried to enter his own house. Why would that be? Remarkable passage from his talk with @NPRMichel. https://www.npr.org/2020/11/16/934584373/transcript-nprs-full-interview-with-former-president-barack-obama
More Obama: "I think the reason that I don't plunge into despair [is] I tend to take a long view... I was 6 years old when the Supreme Court determined that it was unconstitutional for states to say that my parents couldn't marry... it wasn't that long ago."
"When I look at my lifetime — and I'm gray [but] not ancient... and you think about the changes that took place... Not just me being elected president. Michel, you being on a national broadcast as a lead journalist. That just didn't happen. Now that's not considered exceptional."
(To be clear, we do consider @NPRMichel exceptional.)
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