The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.

We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.

Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

Young African - millennials really love Barack Obama.

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."