I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn't mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it's not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .

My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.

I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

The essence of American racism is disrespect.

Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?

I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line to me. You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that's, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.