“People like myself are learning a certain language of mainstream society, of power and decision making,” he said. “We have an obligation to go back to the Black community, to listen and learn and help give our people a voice.”
At the Review, Obama said that one of the biggest challenges he will face is the sharpening and toning of the legal arguments presented in the magazine, whether they are “traditional or pathbreaking.”
“My achievement is only the result of the much more significant achievements of the first Blacks at Harvard, the scholarship of W.E.B. DuBois and Frederick Douglass, the people who desegregated the schools in the South,” he said. “I hope people can look at me and see that achievement is part of a bigger struggle.”
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