Obama: ‘I have been mistaken for waiter and valet’

He may be president now, but Barack Obama says he’s a black man mistaken for a valet and a waiter.

Obama: ‘I have been mistaken for waiter and valet’

ā€œThere’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys,ā€ Obama told People magazine.

That happened to him too, he said.

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