Unfortunately, Barack Obama couldn’t fix America. By simply being the Black president, he became the symbol for what America could achieve. Even if most white people didn’t vote for Barack Obama, “I voted for Obama” has become the rallying cry for people who believe in a post-racial America. The fact that his tenure as head of state did not reverse four hundred years of entrenched white supremacy shows that he was just a president. But while there are valid criticisms of Obama’s two administrations from Black and white, liberal and conservative, perhaps his most important legacy is that the
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