Obama’s win came from increased non-White and youth turnout, not White voters.

Evidence

To claim that a White Obama voter could not be racist would be as naïve (or manipulative) as assuming that a White person with Black friends could not be racist, or that a person with a dark face could not think that dark-faced people were in some way inferior. But White voters did not win the election for Obama, as the postracial headlines implied or declared. They gave him roughly the same percentage of votes (43 percent) they had given his Democratic predecessors after LBJ. Obama’s 10 percent increase in non-White voters over John Kerry in 2004 and the record turnout of young voters won him the presidency of the United States. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1228

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s effort to place arguments about race into Kendi’s three-way scheme: the 2008 ‘postracial’ framing was assimilationist in insisting racism had been surpassed.