I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.
In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.
Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
I would have thought that a woman would have become president before a black man.
The first black president will be a politician who is black.
I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.
When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.
I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman.
After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.
Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.