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The reaction? There would have been lynchings in the Deep South that night.
The freak out from the right would have been echoing still today. Go watch the end of Triumph of the Will, when Hess is leading the Party in the "Seig Heil! Seig Heil!" chant after declaring Hitler is Germany and Germany is Hitler.
The racist, fascist scum sucking bums that make up the GOP and its adherents would have torn their garments, beat their brows and then gone out and started pre-emptively attacking brown people within hours if Obama's speeches were 1/10th as odious as Trumpster Fire's.