Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Criticism Of President Obama And Joe Biden Was Baseless And Myopic - Video Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Criticism Of President Obama And Joe Biden Was Baseless And Myopic This is a counter to Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s column in the New York Times, dated February 5th, 2020. In it, she goes back to a trope that she's had for years but many are not familiar with. She says President Obama wasn't “transformational” but behind her words, over a decade old, rest the idea that someone black should not be in power. She, like the like-minded she addresses, never got behind Obama to start with. A fact she does not share in her New York Times column. Here's why Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is wrong about Obama, and that he was a transformational politician. First, as Professor Taylor seems bent on forgetting, Barack Obama was America's first black President. Aside from that fact alone, Obama's rise to the White House gave those of us wh