“Black people are taught, ‘Your bar is higher. You have to answer harder questions. And you’re never really, satisfactorily accepted.’ That’s a good motivator as a kid, it makes you run fast. But at some point, it’s exhausting to carry such historical baggage in your daily life.”
– Baratunde Thurston to AP’s Sonya Ross, “Some American blacks see race in ‘birther’ questions about Obama”