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I think that having a black president in this country has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going on racially in america. i think that america is now engaging with how we have come to this point.

-David Oyelowo

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I Think That Having A Black President

David Oyelowo

I think that having a black president in this country has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going on racially in america. i think that america is now engaging with how we have come to this point.

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I think that having a black president in america has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going on racially in america. i think that america is now engaging with how we have come to this point.

White people scare the crap out of me. i have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and i've never heard a black person say, 'we're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'

The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... they just conveniently forget that barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; american, kansas, middle of america. there is no argument about who he is, or what he is. america's first black president hasn't arisen yet. he's not america's first black president. he's america's first mixed-race president.

I felt like it was a courageous show [black-ish] from the beginning. we are a black family - we're not a family that happens to be black. but the show is not even about us being black. the show is about us being a family. that is groundbreaking - on tv, the black characters either happen to be black or they're the "black character," where everything they say is about being black. i think that's the genius.

I spent a lot of 2012 going around the country saying that president obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since jimmy carter. now having witnessed the events abroad these last several days, to president carter, i want to issue a sincere apology. it is no longer fair to say he was the worst president of this great country in my lifetime, president obama has proven me wrong.

So, to say obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. that’s not black progress. that’s white progress. there’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. the question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. there have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. the advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that america has ever produced. let’s hope america keeps producing nicer white people.

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