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And we all know that selecting people for important jobs is best done based on skin color and gender.

While it was certainly encouraging that the country was able to elect a person of color as president, confirming that while there’s clearly racism remaining, we are not a racist nation. Unfortunately, he was a very smooth politician but a very bad president, presiding over a huge worsening in race relations and pursuing policies that significantly hindered our much needed economic recovery.