Christopher Edley, Jr., quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 2013
“Obama teaches the nation about race just by being before our eyes and on our minds every day,” Edley said. But in the “cold politics of race,” he said, any attempt from the liberal side to add a racial perspective to national debates is likely to backfire―in particular, if it comes from a nonwhite president…. “I don’t expect a pragmatist like Obama to change his leadership style to that of moral crusader.”