Title: I heart Obama
Description: "In his two terms as president, Barack Obama solidified his status as something black people haven't had for fifty years: a folk hero. The 1960s delivered Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr., forever twinned as larger-than-life outsiders and truth tellers who took on racism and died in the process. Obama is different: Not an outsider but president, head of the most powerful state in the world; a centrist Democrat, not the face of a movement. Yet he is every bit a folk hero, doing battle with the beast of a system created to keep people like him on the margins. He is unique among presidents and entirely unique among black people, who never expected to have a president so soon"--Jacket.
Subjects: Politics and government, Election, Race identity, Presidents, African American leadership, Influence, African Americans, Obama, barack, 1961-, Presidents, united states, election, 2008, African americans, politics and government, African americans, race identity, United states, politics and government, 2009-2017, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Places: United States
People: Barack Obama
Time periods: 2008, 2009-