“I'm deeply saddened by a sense that whites are still superio…”

“I'm deeply saddened by a sense that whites are still superior in this country, in some sense, that if you sit at a restaurant, they're served before a Kenyan is served. If you go through customs, a white person is going to follow orders that "all people are to be treated the same". ..”

— Barack Obama

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Said during a visit to Kenya in the late 1980s or early 1990s, recorded in the 20-minute documentary "A Journey In Black And White" by WeSearchr, as reported and quoted in "Documentary Of Young Obama’s Visit To Kenya Is Set To Be Released" by Alex Pfeiffer, The Daily Caller (19 September 2016)

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Obama, Barack. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Barack Obama. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

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