Why is Bill Clinton fondly referred to as the First Black President?

African-American men seemed to understand it right away. Years ago, in  the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing,  McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas. And when virtually all the African-American Clinton appointees began, one by one, to disappear, when the President’s body, his privacy, his unpoliced sexuality became the focus of the persecution, when he was metaphorically seized and body-searched, who could gainsay these black men who knew whereof they spoke? The message was clear: “No matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how much coin you earn for us, we will put you in your place or put you out of the place you have somehow, albeit with our permission, achieved. You will be fired from your job, sent away in disgrace, and—who knows?—maybe sentenced and jailed to boot. In short, unless you do as we say (i.e., assimilate at once), your expletives belong to us.”

The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President.

Bill Clinton was called as the first black president by the some Americans, and due to popular belief.

This was never made for the sake of racism, and actually holds a meaning. This is known to be very notable in the life of Bill Clinton, and here is a nice reason behind it. It was said that Clinton was able to have a life just like what most black people experience in the country, despite being a white person. 

He became successful despite of those challenges, and he sees that helping black people live a better life in the long run is something that he aims for. This is one of the reasons why he was considered as a black president; because he knows well that in order to gain success, no matter what color or culture you have, there is a way as long as you persevere.

Another reason why he was considered as a black president is because he also experienced some accusations back then – much like how some black people were discriminated and questioned if they rise towards success. The congress is the one who speculates him with a lot of issues despite of the fact that he only strived hard in order to get his goals.Even his wife knows well that the issues about him are mostly controversies, and he is just doing his job rightfully as a President.

There were lots of accusations being made and so as conspiracy theories, but hey, this is what most people in modern society does whenever someone rises to fame. Just like how a hardworking black person is, despite of the accusations, he never let himself down because of that, and that is one reason why you can say that the is a black president after all.

Here are some of the issues he faced.

First, because he grew up in Arkansas, always had black friends, and played "black" music on his saxophone.  Then when he was impeached over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, he had something in common with black leaders who'd had extramarital affairs and been excoriated for them, such as Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King, and Adam Clayton Powell. 

Throughout the civil rights movement, it appeared that any character flaw in a black leader was seized upon by whites in order to discredit them, even though the white critics weren't paragons themselves.  Not coincidentally, some of Clinton's harshest critics, notably Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde, and Robert Livingston, were hiding affairs of their own.     

As the first Baby Boomer President of the United States, Black Americans and the liberal youth in general, embraced Bill Clinton for some of the 'Rock-n-Roll coolness' traits he displayed while on the campaign trail. Wearing shades while playing the saxophone, and making appearances on the Arsenio Hall Show which was popular in the Black community at the time, gave the impression that Clinton was OUR president in the tradition of someone like JFK.

Unfortunately this proved to be an illusion, or at least the "doing right by his Black Democrat voters" part wasn't more important to Clinton than his political career. Clinton's strategy as POTUS was to beat the GOP on the divisive "Tough On Crime" partisan point that historically meant the difference in a close presidential race. Far from helping Blacks, as the insultingly fraudulent "First Black President" moniker suggests, Clinton's crime bills instead hit the African-American community like an atom bomb, building upon Ronald Reagan's Black Male mass incarceration program, and leaving the community even more vulnerable to greed-fueled corporatist predators.

Clinton's after-the-fact apologies came far too late, and not even Barack Obama's attempts to reform the criminal justice system could provide any immediate reversals towards several presidential terms of hostile, anti-Black policies. The community's only recent hope was to elect a genuinely apologetic Hillary Clinton to build upon Obama's work to slowly strip down those laws, but this was not to be. After wrenching the White House away from Hillary using GOP Supreme Court approved voter suppression tactics, Donald Trump picked Jeff Sessions for a key cabinet role in his new administration who -- with his long history of anti-Black community sentiments -- immediately doubled down on strengthening the policies that could only triple (at least!) the Black Male mass incarceration rate for years to come.