This felt like the moment that a million switches flipped inside a million minds, including mine. It was so easy for years to make excuses for why Obama couldn’t do this or needed to triangulate on that or whatever, but here he just straight up tells the people to fuck off and stop whining. The dawning realization in the crowd of what he’s doing from the time he says “Can I get some water?” to the time he takes that tiny sip of water is still brutal to listen to. I can’t imagine what that moment must have felt like for you as a black teenager