In an interveiw with People magazine, Obama has shared some of the devastating racism he has experienced in his life.  I got my hands on an advance look at the article, and here are some of the examples of racism he has observed in his life first hand.

• None of the local butchers sell ground Shi Tzu or his favorite guilty pleasure corn-weiner-dogs.
• While he was campaigning, a citizen once asked him who his favorite rap artist was.
• For his own safety, the Secret Service would make him sit in the back of the bus while they threw his former friends and associates under it.
• Angela Merkel asked him if he new of a good Ethiopian restaurant in DC.
• His new Wii U didn’t have a default mulatto skin tone built in for his Mii.
• Harvard admitted him.
• In his Junior High School presentation of Freaks the Musical, the part of the albino was given to that weird, white kid with the pink eyes instead of him.
• He was denied admission to Cheyney University because he didn’t meet their purity requirements.
• Joe Biden keeps confusing him with the help.
• At a Hollywood fundraiser, he was once mistaken for Jay Pharoah.  The real Jay Pharoah was moonlighting as the valet.
• It’s okay for Nancy Reagan to consult an astrologist, but if Michelle reads goat entrials just once……
• The only way to make his black coffee tolerable is to add white powder and white liquid to it.
• It was unacceptable to fill out his Scantron test sheets using black ink.
• Robert Byrd never invited him to any of his rallies.
• When given a choice at school lunch, kids preferntially choose the chocolate milk.
• He was always picked last for basketball, certainly due to his white ancestry.
• He often heard his girlfriend make hushed remarks to her friends such as, “Well, THAT stereotype is certainly a myth.”
• His SAT vocabulary prep book included the word ‘niggardly’, misspelled ‘def’ and had incorrect definitions for ‘stupid’ and ‘bad.’
• While growing up in Hawaii, he was constantly hassled by the man for smoking doobies while black.
• Natural dark chocolate just wasn’t good enough.  Europeans had to invent a white variety.
• His grandmother took him to see Song of the South. He didn’t like it, and he didn’t inhale, though he was seen humming Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah for days.
• He was required to read Huck Finn in High School English.
• Sickle cell anemia.