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May
8
Toni Morrison Clarifies Her Calling Clinton "First Black President"
Do you regret referring to Bill Clinton as the first black President? —Justin Dews, Cambridge, Mass.
“People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race.”