But what I will always remember is as I was leaving that party in 2003, I was approached by another guest, an established author. He asked about the man I had been talking to. Sheepishly he told me he didn’t know that Obama was a guest at the party, and had asked him to fetch him a drink. In less than six years, Obama has gone from being mistaken for a waiter among the New York media elite, to the president-elect.

WSJ.com: Before He Was President, Mistaken for a Waiter: a 2003 Obama Meeting

…seeing and hearing Hilary invoke the legacy and the words of Harriet Tubman to describe this political campaign elides the importance of race. It also seems like the classic white-person move to look backward in time and identify with the oppressed…

racismreview.com: Hilary and Harriet Tubman