Tavis Smiley: ‘Great Presidents Aren’t Born, Great Presidents Are Made’
‘I see all the time online people suggesting that Hillary might get more done for black folk if she wins than Obama did in part because either of his own choosing or by circumstance he found himself boxed in on race’
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SMILEY: "And not suggesting in print, I see all the time online people suggesting that Hillary might get more done for black folk if she wins than Obama did in part because either of his own choosing or by circumstance he found himself boxed in on race. What I said eight years ago to your point, what I still stand on today is that great presidents aren’t born, great presidents are made. Lincoln started out on the wrong side of the slavery question. Frederick Douglass helped him get there. FDR was a great president, LBJ was pushed by MLK. But you have to push them."
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