Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning author Toni Morrison is still answering questions regarding the statement she made about former President Bill Clinton, whom she called America’s “first black president” 10 years ago.
In an interview in this week’s Time magazine, Morrison clarified her comments, saying, “People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race.”
After winning the North Carolina primary and losing the Indiana primary by the slimmest of margins on Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama is now even closer to becoming the first African-American to ever win a presidential nomination from one of the two major parties. Obama is running as a Democrat. Morrison’s statement has resurfaced throughout the primaries, even though the writer publicly endorsed Obama earlier this year.
Back in 1998, Morrison said of Clinton, “Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime.”
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May 13, 2008 at 6:18 pm