The first African American President of the Unites States.
Our first family will be African American.
Every reality we grew up with in terms
of ethnicity will be different.
The policies of racial grievance died tonight.
And I take it therefore around the world
criticism of the United States for being
a racist nation will now stop.
Then it becomes, are we post-racial?
I mean, that's where the question of inspiration
and promise of America plays in.
Ugh, post racial?
(laughs)
That was a complete and total load of bullshit.
Yo, Barack Obama changed my life!
(applauding)
Do we participate in a politics of cynicism
or do we participate in a politics of hope?
The hope of the skinny kid with a funny name
who believes that America has a place for him too.
(crowd cheers)
That legitimately broke me to tears.
It was the first time I saw the nation
recognize that I exist.
There were pictures of him with his white mom,
I have the same picture of me with my mom.
It was the first time someone with my story was the story.
My parents shared not only an improbable love,
they shared an abiding faith
in the possibilities of this nation.
I felt a deep relating to him
and a sense that we have as an identity, as a people,
as a community, as a generation, we are showing
the best of what we have and what we can do.
(crowd cheering)
(upbeat music)
I was not surprised that Senator
Barack Obama won the election.
What was fascinating to watch was the ways that Americans
wrote on to the Obama candidacy, and then onto the Obama
presidency, so much of our own racial understandings
and racial anxieties.
Senator Obama, how do you address those who
say you're not authentically black enough?
When I'm catching a cab in Manhattan in the past.
(audience laughs)
I've given my credentials.
My initial reaction to Barack Obama
was suspicion because yeah a white mom.
Because I always assumed if there were to ever be
a black president he would not be politically black
that you could not be politically black
and become president in this country.
Because the whole model of a African American
political candidate was somebody caught
to the civil rights ranks, had like a preacher background
and that just wasn't who he was.
More or less, his family ascendancy to
the White House, meant more to me than Obama himself.
I mean, Michelle is probably why
the black community accepted him anyway.
What kind of role do you think
race has played in this race?
Yeah, I think race is always still in this country
it's always on the table.
To see that he was married to a browned skin
black woman from the South side of Chicago who clearly talks
and acts like a black woman,
I think it was very important to me.
He's not just a black dude on paper, you know,
he had black experiences so
that's what he meant to me personally.
By the time he wins the primary
it's like he's way too black.
The moment that that happened was with Rev. Wright.
Not God bless America, God Damn America.
Senator Obama said that Rev. Wright was like
"an old uncle who sometimes says things I don't agree with."
I mean it is really a very biracial moment where he's
trying to explain American race relations and win a primary.
I am the son of a black man from Kenya
and a white woman from Kansas.
You feel him walking this rope just ah!
This union may never be perfect,
but generation after generation has shown
that it can always be perfected.
His ability to morph and communicate with
different people was reflective of something that I
as a multiracial person had to.
When he talks about, when he's canvassing,
and seeing all these white kitschy figurines
and thinking I have seen this in my grandmother's home,
I can kinda create a conversation.
And so in that way I relate to him because I can connect
with white people sometimes differently and organically
and I think that is a part of my biracial experience.
Why don't you say "I'm biracial"?
Well, you know.
When he was first elected one of my friends
who is biracial sent me a text message and she said
"What do you feel of his saying he's a black president?
"I mean, isn't he really biracial,
"we should really be talking about that more."
And I didn't respond to her because I get it,
he's black, the way I feel like I'm black, it is who we are
and it's also who the world perceives who we are.
(upbeat music)
A pilot of Blackish there is a moment
where the father is telling the mother.
All this coming from a mixed woman who
technically isn't even really black?
If I'm not really black then
could somebody please tell my hair and my ass?
In the same episode he's talking to his kids
about how they need to understand Barack Obama
the first black President.
That's me and Obama and that's also how America
and particularly black America deals
with mixed identities still.
If the world saw me as African American, then
that wasn't something I needed to run away from,
that's something that I could go ahead and embrace.
When President Obama filled out
his form in the 2010 census, and identified
as African American, I think it helped people
to understand that there's not just one
way to be in terms of race.
All these years, in this country no one cared
to discern which black people were all black
and which black people were half black.
But when President Obama said that he was black, suddenly
a lot of white people got very upset about that
and wanted to ask why wasn't he claiming his white side?
Why wasn't he claiming his white mother?
Why wasn't he calling himself biracial?
Like, word, like that one drop rule of thinking
that existed that y'all came up with.
There may be lots of reasons that
President Obama had access to white privilege, sure.
But that's different than like being
acceptable because he had white blood.
Because, you know, black folks in America have white blood.
Which by the way means, white people
in America have black blood.
Part of the absurdity of race is that we have
a discussion about mixed African Americans when
the African American community itself is a mixed community.
DNA tests show that the average black person
is actually a quarter white.
What that says is that we have been mixed since we were
forcibly brought to this country.
What bothers me is this sense that this is something new.
I see these story after story that are saying
how we have rising numbers of biracial people
and how this is gonna solve
the race problem because suddenly,
you know, black people are mixed.
That somehow you take the biracial people
and they'll be the literal example
of the coming together of the races.
If that's the case, race problem
would've ended about 250 years ago.
Transcending race is a phrase
that comes up a lot because people want to be over
this whole racism-thing but they don't
actually wanna do the work.
People used to say that about Barack Obama all the time,
he transcends race, well he obviously didn't 'cause
the guy who was saying he wasn't born here is now President.
I want him to show his birth certificate.
A lot of people did not think it was
an authentic certificate.
How can you say that?
So it goes from insufficiently black to way too black,
to like a muslim non-citizen outsider.
Americans have told themselves the story that
the civil rights movement happened and we all lived happily
ever after and then we elected a black President, and then
we lived happily ever after again.
And I think people are really reluctant to take a hard look
at that story and see that it's not true.
The Obama era was a bit of a blip and perhaps
we didn't understand how much work we still have to do.
My teenager was born while I was living in Chicago
and so she was a preschooler when
Barack Obama was running for the US Senate.
So, the very first word that she read was the word Obama.
I loved that.
But what that also means is
she was with her dad, my ex husband, in Chicago.
On the night the Zimmerman verdict came down
and I got called in to MSNBC to do live coverage.
46 days for George Zimmerman to be charged
with second degree murder for killing the unarmed teen.
So, remember, the kids who live through Obama
as our President, also live through Trey Vaughn,
Michael Brown, Philando Castile, right?
In the past decade alone, these men and hundreds
of others have lost their lives to police.
She's looking at black empowerment and black death
right next to each other in our country.
The beginning of a much larger conversation
about race and police.
I was on maternity leave during
the high publicity of Black Lives Matter.
And I was sitting in a room holding
my baby, watching it on TV.
Black lives matter, black lives matter!
And it really made me realize that I didn't
want her to have an unaided guide into race.
And that was an experience that I had as a child.
I am a direct beneficiary of the civil rights movement.
I was able to do things that my father and his generation
never could have dreamed and I hope that my daughter
will do much more than me, but that's just looking at it
on an individual level, as a community, black Americans
have a very tough time ahead and we'll continue to have
very tough time, and that is the world
that my daughter will come of age in.
You could say that America has always been
a kind of driven by competing nationalism, right?
There's a nationalism that says America is a white Christian
country and everything that is good about America comes
from that and there's nationalism that says
"we are all immigrants", America's greatness comes
from all the different kinds of people
who have come here to make a better life.
You know, you look at Barack Obama and you look at
Donald Trump and I think what you see is those
two nationalisms that have been wrestling since America's
inception are still wrestling.
As a Public Defender I walk in every day
and see the same things happened to black people every day.
And there are small incremental changes
but largely what's happening to black and brown people
in America I'd say is really consistent.
That's why I feel so strongly about
educating my children on blackness.
It's about loving blackness but it's also
about keeping them safe.
And clearly we're not post-racial in America
so there'll be a time when they
are forced to confront issues of race.
You know, you give them all the tools to understand
who they are, and then you set them free in the world.
My twins were born in two separate flavors.
How they are going to negotiate it,
the rules are changing, right?
So, as the world changes the best thing I can do for them
is giving them an understanding on where
the rules come from and what's behind them.
So, that they're prepared to adjust
with the nuances of tomorrow.
Being a parent has made me think a lot
more about how I'm going to approach, introducing them
to the concepts of race and how
I'm going to introduce them to America.
On my Twitter handle I say I write about race
from 1619, the year the first Africans
were brought in this country to be enslaved.
1604 is when the first English landed in Jamestown.
15 years after, white people arrived on the shores,
"We've decided that we are going to enslave Africans."
That is a 140 before we'd become a country ourselves.
So, that is all to say that racism, racial caste,
white supremacy are embedded in the DNA of our country.
And to somehow believe that we will ever
purge ourselves of this I think it's just not realistic.
When we were little, my father, he always
signed our birthday card, "the struggle continues."
Daddy, it is the greatest gift my father ever gave me
because the struggle does continue.
And your job is not to necessarily finish it,
it is to acknowledge that it came for you, it will
(laughs) likely go on after you,
and to keep naming it, what it really is.
Like the problem is not black folks, and the problem is
not like relationships between people.
The problem is white supremacy, patriarchy and the way
that it tries to destroy and de-humanize
and so, those are the power structures
that have to be brought down.
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