To put it in context, at the time, people were frustrated with 42 for not being more jack johnson like when he was breaking color barriers in a sport where you hit a round ball with a wooden stick, now he's a deity in merkka, Madiba, with a majority black population and world opinion on his side was able to become president, now we are all on his death watch and the world will mourn when that day comes.
Obama shuttered the ultimate ceiling, and just like he created his pre presidency narrative with dreams of my father, he will create his post presidency narrative.

and the best part about it, he's not even a full blooded american, let alone an african american, that ceiling got blowed up, and he deserves his props for that.