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Barack Obama: “There is no doubt that as a mixed child, as the child of an African and a white woman, who was very close to white…”

On the recordSeptember 26, 2016
There is no doubt that as a mixed child, as the child of an African and a white woman, who was very close to white grandparents ... I think the working assumption of discrimination ... is less embedded in my psyche than it is, say, with Michelle.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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