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Barack Obama: “I have no doubt that the first African American president had to be somebody who could speak the way I did in the 2004…”

On the recordSeptember 26, 2016
I have no doubt that the first African American president had to be somebody who could speak the way I did in the 2004 convention speech about the ideal of what America is.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates

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