"Obama, amid racial tensions, keeps a measured approach after past backlashes"

“Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, director of the African American Policy Forum, said de Blasio was channeling “the old Obama,” who tried to talk about race in personal terms but has been stung by the backlash. Now, she said, Obama has “begun to speak about race in the third person — he’s the arbiter of how black people are feeling. . . . It’s ‘people may perceive’ or ‘people may think’ or ‘people have lost confidence.’ ””

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-urges-persistence-in-confronting-deep-roots-of-racism/2014/12/07/ebb32c96-7cbd-11e4-b821-503cc7efed9e_story.html?hpid=z1

Ugh though, who wrote the patience thing? That’s going to be quoted constantly by people who think that racism will just fade away if we let the really old people die, that we all just have to take a chill pill and stop wanting attention.