"Black Presidents?"
Various commentators have suggested a president could be recognized as the "first black president of the United States" for their contributions to the well-being of African Americans. Republican Abraham Lincoln was suggested because of his role as the "Great Emancipator" of four million blacks in the South after the American Civil War.
Toni Morrison labeled Democrat Bill Clinton the first black president of the United States. Morrison suggested that Clinton was "blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime." Author and professor Angela Dillard stated such claims constituted a "silly and defeatist notion" that separated the black community.
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Famous quotes containing the word black:
“... the black girls didn’t get these pills because their black ministers were up on the pulpit saying that birth control pills were black genocide. What I’m saying is that black men have exploited black women.... They didn’t want them to have any choice about their reproductive health. And if you can’t control your reproduction, you can’t control your life.”
—Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)