Rachel L. Swarns
For the nation’s black magazines, newspapers, and television and radio stations, the arrival of the Obama administration has ushered in an era of unprecedented access to the White House.
President Obama gave Black Enterprise magazine his first print interview and gave a black talk show host one of his first radio interviews. This month, he invited 50 black newspaper publishers to meet with him at the White House. And at his news conference Tuesday, he skipped over several prominent newspapers and newsmagazines to call on Kevin Chappell, a senior editor at Ebony magazine.
It was the first time an Ebony reporter had been invited to question a president at a prime-time news conference.
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I’d be willing to bet, that after this election, that the Black man is going to have a hell of a time, ever getting near the White House , in the capacity, as being the President of the United States, ever again.