A suitcase full of historical implications and outsized expectations.
"In order to be effective, he has got to lead everybody. But some black people will expect to him to speak to their frustrations rather than address the cause of their frustrations. ... And blacks will be unreasonably hard on him when he is successful. The only satisfaction is that whenever he meets a stumbling block, he can count on black people to rally around him just as unreasonably."
| A quote from former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young on Illinois Democratic senatorial candidate Barack Obama in David Mendell's Chicago Tribune (via Philadelphia Inquirer) article "Obama deals with sudden turn of national limelight"
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