Toni Morrison On Calling Bill Clinton The First Black President And Endorsing Obama
May 8, 2008 - Do you regret referring to Bill Clinton as the first black President? --Justin Dews, Cambridge, Mass.
People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms…