A Black journalist offers her appreciation of President Obama and his singular story In this accessible, engaging book, journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan argues that across two terms as President, Barack Obama solidified his status as something Black people hadn’t had for fifty years: a folk hero. The 1960s delivered Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, forever twinned as larger-than-life outsiders and truth tellers who took on racism and died in the process. Obama, Kaplan explains, 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 a system that has historically kept 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. In I Heart Obama, Kaplan offers an unapologetic appreciation of President Obama and what he means to Black Americans.
A Black journalist offers her appreciation of President Obama and his singular story In this accessible, engaging book, journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan argues that across two terms as President, Barack Obama solidified his status as something Black people hadn’t had for fifty years: a folk hero. The 1960s delivered Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, forever twinned as larger-than-life outsiders and truth tellers who took on racism and died in the process. Obama, Kaplan explains, 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 a system that has historically kept 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. In I Heart Obama, Kaplan offers an unapologetic appreciation of President Obama and what he means to Black Americans.
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