Black President In Popular Culture (United States)
Before the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States in 2008, the idea of a black President of the United States was explored by various writers in novels (including science fiction), movies and television. Numerous actors, comedians and celebrities portrayed a black president. Comedic parodies of a black president have been popular, used to explore the culture gap, and what U.S. life would be like under a black president and to a lesser extent, for a black president.
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Famous quotes containing the words black, president, popular and/or culture:
“the black wings
of the
hospital where
nothing
will grow”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“Colonel “Bat” Guano: Okay, I’m going to get your money for you. But if you don’t get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what’s going to happen to you?
Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: What?
Colonel “Bat” Guano: You’re going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It’s the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It’s become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.”
—Malcolm McLaren (b. 1946)