Barack Obama actually said...

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.

Context

Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates

09/26/2016

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

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