Obama consistently avoided a specific policy agenda for black Americans

Evidence

The most disturbing example of this inability to talk substantively about race is how President Obama handles the subject. He replies to claims that he ought to develop a specific policy agenda to help African Americans with a quick dismissal: “I’m not the president of black America. I am the president of the United States of America.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 179

Categorization

• QUESTION: Post-2016, how does Glaude’s framing of Obama’s ‘acrobatics’ hold given Obama’s later speeches on race? The post-publication evolution matters for judging the book’s claims.