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Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.
Approximate author period: c. 1975 AD · modern
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- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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- Approximate author period: c. 1975 AD · modern
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