Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans — Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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