Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything Highlight

The next month, Clinton herself floated the white-savior idea, telling reporters that Obama’s historic candidacy was providing “false hope” because Dr. King’s dream only “began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act.” She added that “It took a president to get it done,” reinforcing the assertion that blacks only got ahead because of brave whites.