He should but he never will. He’ll never publicly interact with the Black left because his whole act would be shown for what it is. He has to pretend to be the voice of Black people’s conscience and intellect and faced with smart Black folks who don’t agree with him? https://twitter.com/sankofabrown/status/1331623522259570688

I can’t even picture a conversation between Obama and a serious Black radical scholar because he’s so reliant on adopting this pose of aloof bemused condescension when talking to Black audiences or about Black issues to mixed/white audiences. Imagine if he had to drop that.

If he couldn’t do his whole “well now government is complicated and let me just tell you we tried...” routine. Imagine if he had to talk about the failures of respectability politics and about the harm of pushing bootstraps meritocracy narratives to Black youth.

Black politicians love going on The Breakfast Club bc they know they’re going to get basic, seat at the table ass “what are you gonna do to make us rich” type questions and that’s easy to handle. Also they know those mfers dumb as shit lol