‘Obama’ Has Become a Code Word for Racists
Angela Onwuachi-Willig · bepress Legal Repository · 2014
Racial tensions in the United States have changed since Obama’s election as president, and for the worse. As judicial opinions since 2008 have revealed, both the word “Obama” and the president’s image have become tools for harassing and otherwise discriminating, in the workplace and in places of public accommodation, against blacks and against whites in romantic relationships with blacks.