Bill Clinton on being called ‘first Black president’: ‘I took it as a great compliment’

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-22 16:58:09 | Updated at 2024-11-22 22:37:57 5 hours ago

Bill Clinton on being called ‘first Black president’: ‘I took it as a great compliment’
The Hill ^ | 11/22/2024 | Cheyanne M. Daniels

Posted on 11/22/2024 8:48:39 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Former President Clinton said he was flattered when acclaimed author Toni Morrison called him America’s “first Black president.”

“When my friend Toni Morrison said that, you know, it was about — it was halfway serious and halfway making fun of me,” Clinton said Thursday at an event promoting his new memoir.

“But I took it as a great compliment. It wasn’t that I owe it to my ancestors because I grew up in a white, Southern, working-class family where my grandfather owned a country store and all of his customers were Black, and he loved them and they loved him.”

In 1998, Morrison wrote an essay for The New Yorker in which she called Clinton the nation’s “first Black president.”

“After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas,” Morrison wrote

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KEYWORDS: black; clinton; first; president

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Fist pervert is more like it

To: ChicagoConservative27

2 posted on 11/22/2024 8:50:12 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)

To: ChicagoConservative27; thinden; RitaOK; AFB-XYZ

And I’m certain that he took every opportunity to remind Barack about that.
Obama hates the Clintons.
And vice-versa.

Because he beat Hillary! who would have been the first, black, female, President in history.

3 posted on 11/22/2024 8:51:26 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")

To: ChicagoConservative27

I think Trump can drive Pedo Clinton nuts by making the claim that he is the Second Black President during his inauguration speech. The establishment gave Trump the MLK treatment.

To: ChicagoConservative27

Bill “Mandingo” Clinton never gave one flying crap about black people.

To: ChicagoConservative27

Georgetown, OXFORD and Yale. Yeah, “Black President”. ROTFL! The closet he ever got was wearing cotton underwear.

6 posted on 11/22/2024 8:55:33 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Go Brandon! FCS (Schumer))

To: ChicagoConservative27

Is he out here all the time now hoping we’ll all like him when he gets convicted and we put in for some kind of character approval

7 posted on 11/22/2024 8:55:40 AM PST by stanne

To: ChicagoConservative27

Sounds like cultural appropriation to me.

8 posted on 11/22/2024 8:56:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)

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