Obama wrote that in high school, he and a black friend would sometimes speak disparagingly "about white folks this or white folks that, and I would suddenly remember my mother's smile, and the words that I spoke would seem awkward and false."
As a result, he concluded that "certain whites could be excluded from the general category of our distrust."
"Certain whites" being his mother. Pretty open-minded for an adolescent, really.
Remember when everybody knowing your name qualified you for the barstools at Cheers, not the Oval Office?
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