Inside The Five-Day Stretch When Obama Found His Voice On RacePosted in Articles, Audio, Barack Obama, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy on 2016-06-13 18:03Z by Steven |
Inside The Five-Day Stretch When Obama Found His Voice On Race
FiveThirtyEight
2016-05-26
The number of Americans “greatly worried” about race relations hit an all-time low, 13 percent, the year after President Obama took office. Last month, Gallup recorded the opposite, an all-time high of 35 percent.
As Obama prepares to leave office, the conversation about his legacy will no doubt include his role in how Americans see race. In the latest in FiveThirtyEight’s podcast documentary series on key election moments, we go back to the first time in Obama’s presidential career that he addressed the country’s debate over race in a big way…
…Who you’ll hear from in the podcast
- Obama’s Team
- David Axelrod, Obama’s chief campaign strategist at the time
- Jon Favreau, Obama’s speechwriter at the time
- Valerie Jarrett, longtime adviser to the president
- Marty Nesbitt, one of Obama’s closest friends
- Media Members
- Brian Ross of ABC News, whose reporting set off the firestorm
- Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson
- Clips of Joe Scarborough, Diane Sawyer, Chris Cuomo, Chris Matthews, Katie Couric, Sean Hannity and Karl Rove
- Analysts
- FiveThirtyEight’s Harry Enten
- The Nation’s Kai Wright