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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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.
President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.
The first black president will be a politician who is black.
Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.
There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.
It's a new world that's very, very difficult to make sense of. But we have a new hope. We have a new man. America has now elected its first openly black President.
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.