Why Bill Clinton Was Called “Our First Black President ...
Over fifteen years before Barack Obama was sworn into the Oval Office and became the United States’ first black President, Bill Clinton was called “our first black President.” So how is it that the nation’s 42nd (white) president got that honorific before the first actual Black president?
Bill Clinton was never the first black president. “Mixed ...
Feb 15, 2016 · When author Toni Morrison called then–President Bill Clinton the nation’s “first black president” in the late 1990s, it wasn’t exactly a compliment. But some — Clinton included — still tout the...
Bill Clinton on being called ‘first Black president’: ‘I took ...
Nov 22, 2024 · In 2016, at a campaign stop during former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s White House bid, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) introduced the former president as a “stand-in for the first Black...
It Was No Compliment to Call Bill Clinton 'The First Black ...
Aug 27, 2015 · And when virtually all the African-American Clinton appointees began, one by one, to disappear, when the President’s body, his privacy, his unpoliced sexuality became the focus of the ...
Bill Clinton on being the first black president, and aliens ...
Apr 3, 2014 · Clinton’s historic support among and affinity with African Americans became strained in 2008 when Hillary Clinton and Obama battled to become the Democratic party’s presidential nominee.
Bill Clinton says being called first Black president was ...
Nov 22, 2024 · WASHINGTON (TNND) — Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday said he was flattered to be described as the country’s first Black president, adding that he viewed the title as a compliment. The late Toni Morrison bestowed the title on Clinton in a …
The Black Ballot Episode 11: 'First Black President' - NewsOne
Sep 27, 2024 · Episode 11, “First ‘Black’ President,” focuses on Bill Clinton’s presidency and his complex relationship with Black voters after 12 years of Republican leadership. Clinton, elected in 1992,...
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