The nation’s first black president went on the Jimmy Kimmel show and spoke about his wife’s political future, Toronto’s mayir Rob Ford and among other things, being the nation’s first black president.
Bill Clinton:
“I loved being called the first black president, but Barack Obama really is,” Clinton told Kimmel, to laughs.
Let me say this. I consider it — I was incredibly fortunate that I was born in a little town in Arkansas and raised by my grandparents largely and my great-uncle and -aunt when my widowed mother went off to become a nurse. And my grandparents were poor white Southerners, who as a class were among the most racially prejudiced people in the South, and they weren’t. My granddad ran a country store and the vast majority of his customers were African-American.
So, I was raised in a different way — at home in the church, at home and the culture. And it was such a gift to me that I grew up free of that and I deserve no credit for it whatsoever, it was the way I was raised. And so, I love being called the first black president, but Barack Obama really is, he deserves it. And it’s been thrilling for me for doing what I could since Hillary lost the primary, we’ve done everything we could to support him and I was delighted we had over 7 million people sign up for the health exchange.
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