Obama’s presidency proved inclusion does not unhook white supremacy from American ideals

Evidence

President Obama represents the culmination of this tradition. How he engages matters of race, how he imagines black people’s relation to the nation, and how he uses African American history affirm this liberal vision. In some ways, all the declarations in 2008 that we had reached the promised land revealed the deadly gambit at the heart of black liberal politics: that somehow our inclusion at the highest levels of power would finally unhook white supremacy from the nation’s precious ideals and we would be free. But the price of this “freedom” was communal death in service of the illusion of racial progress. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 437

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 437
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