Clinton to NAACP: "I think I was the first black president"

[Nathan Newman]

No, Rock's riff dates from much earlier.  He did it on Saturday night live
much earlier, long before Monica even was an issue.

-- Nathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "jf noonan" <jfn1 at msc.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Clinton to NAACP: "I think I was the first black president"

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Chris Kromm wrote:


> But didn't Toni Morrison write a gushing piece (in The
> Nation? elsewhere?) claiming Bill was our first black prez
> -- without humor? It's an ongoing theme...

Yes, in the _New Yorker_ and I imagine that is what started
Chris Rock's riff...

Toni Morrison

Clinton as the first black president

New Yorker, October 1998

http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/faculty/smith/clinton/morrison.html

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Joseph Noonan
Houston, TX
jfn1 at msc.com

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