Obama was a political miracle-worker, but he had to spend most of his miraculous power on overcoming racism enough to get elected.
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If somehow there were a white man with Obama's political talents, that man would have floated through office with a 60-70% approval rating.
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If not higher. I don't think we would have gotten a public option still, but we would have gotten gun control and immigration legislation.
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that guy still would have lost at least one chamber of Congress, so we might not have gotten police reform legislation... but we might have.
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We will need not one but SEVERAL black presidents, other nonwhite presidents, female presidents, queer presidents...
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before bigotry no longer impedes the success of politicians who do not belong to all the dominant groups of society.
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