A slew of African-American presidents portrayed in film and television has helped US voters get used to the idea of electing the country’s first black commander-in-chief, analysts say.
Whether it’s a seven-year-old Sammy Davis Jr in the 1933 comedy Rufus Jones for President or Morgan Freeman in 1998’s Deep Impact, Hollywood has been installing blacks in the Oval Office before anyone had heard of Barack Obama.
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