Why Obama doesn’t dare become the angry #black man
(CNN) Here’s proof that President Obama has indeed ushered in a new era in race relations.
Who would have ever expected some white Americans to demand that an African-American man show more rage?
If you’ve followed the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, you’ve heard the complaints that Obama isn’t showing enough emotion.
But scholars say Obama’s critics ignore a lesson from American history: Many white Americans don’t like angry black men.
It’s the lesson Obama absorbed from his upbringing, and from an impromptu remark he delivered last summer. Yet it’s a lesson he may now have to jettison, they say, as public outrage spreads.
Why Obama doesn’t dare become the angry #black manTags: barack obama
