
“How long have you been a black man?”
To U.S. President Barack Obama, after he had responded to a question on whether he thought racism was fueling criticisms of him with the comment "First of all, I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.", as quoted in "Obama Takes On Letterman" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/21/AR2009092103432.html by Michael D. Shear, in The Washington Post (22 September 2009).