“I think America was not ready for a Black president at the time, reflecting on today’s time. I think it was more of something that we wanted to check off the box. Although, to me, he was a great president, reflecting on what’s happening right now, we did not work on changing people’s hearts, and therefore, we were just checking off the box and not really understanding, or rather telling people, that they should change their hearts. They just wanted to create a facade that we are progressing, but really, we’re not because now we just went back to the same thing that we were trying to eradicate. So that’s why I don’t think we were ready for a Black president.”
“I don’t think that America as a whole could ever be ready for a Black president, but it’s a necessary variable for the type of change we need to see as a country, but even in the Black community, in general.”
“Yes, I do, but we didn’t get one. No, he was not a Black person. You know, he was not a Black man because he wasn’t a fraction of who I was, and I’m Black. You know? And that’s the way I feel about it. This will ruffle a lot of feathers.”
“I think some of America was ready, as it was such a historical and emotional moment for many minorities in the US, but not as a whole. Racial prejudice was, and still is, very prominent.”
“America, in total? Unfortunately, no. There were many of us that were ready. Unfortunately, too many Americans had held long grudges and, unfortunately, wanted to maintain other isms. So, for the battles that we thought we had moved beyond, it was demonstrated in real time that all of America was not ready.”
“Well, the Blacks were, I don’t know about the whites. And it seems that because he got a lot of white folks’ votes, they were ready too. And I think they are realizing this now, look at who they voted for this time around.”
