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idn’t they say the same thing in 2008?

Via Mediaite:


MSNBC host and TIME Magazine columnist Touré’s latest opinion piece in the pages of the weekly newsmagazine advances the notion that the reelection of President Barack Obama would do more to create racial harmony in the U.S. even more than the president’s first election in 2008. If Obama is reelected after a whole term which has humanized him significantly from his first term, Touré writes that it would prove that an African American, even the President of the United States, does no longer has to be “twice as good” as the average white person to get ahead. [...]

“[I]t’s impossible to view Obama as a superhuman magical-Negro figure anymore,” Touré writes. “Given the super-human expectations placed on him when he took office, it’s not surprising that he has disappointed some of his followers.”

Touré says that the future will likely be more racially natural after Obama’s reelection because it would go to prove that America is moving ever closer to a post-racial society.