Obama has declined the pulpit Bill Clinton sought when he announced in 1996 that he would lead the country in a “national conversation” on race during what were, in retrospect, boom years for black Americans. One administration official, Attorney General Eric Holder, did briefly seek to revive that conversation in tougher times with a speech in the administration’s second month.
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“People who in the past would have been reluctant to express their feelings [now] feel free to do so,” said David Bositis, a senior research associate at the liberal Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington.
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