As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.

President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look at some of these issues after Ferguson.

I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and lows of this presidency from an African-American perspective. More than simply a column collection, the book has a substantial introduction that frames the [Barack] Obama presidency, explores the way Obama was treated by the political establishment and also how this first black president treated "his" people. In the epilogue, I use numbers to tell the story of African-American gains and losses during this presidency.

Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.