It is hard to overstate just how poisonous Obama was believed to be in the precincts of a spurning, rebutting whiteness, a whiteness that measured the seconds until he would no longer be in that white house, in our, or rather, their, White House. Millions of whites couldn't wait to return power to the white hands from which it had been cruelly snatched for eight years, couldn't wait to celebrate the victory of the most brazenly white man to claim the presidency since Andrew Johnson.
-- Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop, p. 221-222
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