Now that we’ve gotten to see Barack Obama lecture black men about how “they ain’t black” if they don’t vote for Harris, I thought it would be a good time to share my video about why liberals hate black conservatives.
This may also be a good time to take a step back and remind ourselves, or be reminded if we haven’t heard, that Barack Obama has no personal or historical connection to “The Black Experience” in America. Like me, he is half-white, but unlike me, the black side of his family are not descendants of slavery, meaning that he personally does not have a historical connection to slavery in his family lineage, with all the generational difficulties and trauma that entails.
He did not “live The Struggle” as you might say, and he has absolutely no connection to “The Black Struggle” as it is commonly understood in the context of American history and society.
Note too that while plenty of white Americans, immigrants, and people of all backgrounds and races live hard lives, face financial hardship, and have to scrape and fret to survive, he did not experience that life, either. His parents met in a Russian class at the University of Hawaii, where his father was studying economics as a visiting student from Kenya, before going on to get a Master’s in economics at Harvard. Upon graduating from Harvard, his father “married for a third time and worked for the Kenyan government as the Senior Economic Analyst in the Ministry of Finance.” While Barack Jr. was alienated from his father at a young age, his parents were both of the educational elite, and he did not grow up in a manner that is in any way thought of or associated with “The Black Experience” in America. When it comes to persevering and overcoming hardship, Bill Clinton had a much more typical childhood associated with that sort of experience than Barack Obama did. In fact, none other than Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison called Clinton “our first black President…[b]lacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime.”
Some may say that her words remain true over two decades later….
A few other things separate Barack Obama’s childhood and experience from that of your typical black American, or even from your typical American. Four years abroad in elementary school in Jakarta, Indonesia, living with his mother and another foreign father figure in his stepdad, where he supposedly became fluent in Indonesian. Attending an Ivy League feeder prep school in Hawaii, while living with his grandfather and grandmother, who was a Vice President at the Bank of Hawaii. And of course attending Columbia University and Harvard Law School in the 1980s.
The reason this is important is because of the absolute incongruity if not insanity of a man like this lecturing black men about their duty to vote for Kamala Harris as if he’s one of them, indeed an elder among them, and because she is like them, and their mothers and their sisters. Whatever internal strife, identity crises, and life struggles he has had, they are not the same kind of struggles that most black men in America have faced, and it is both insulting and condescending for him to carry himself that way in order to talk down to black men and to voters.
As to his actual critique that black men are failing to support a candidate who “understands them,” Harris’s family history and childhood are just as atypical and removed from the average African American experience as Obama’s is. Her mother was an Indian immigrant with a Ph.D from Berkeley, which led to a career as a cancer researcher. Her father also has a Ph.D from Berkeley and was the first black professor to be granted tenure in Stanford’s economics department.
So when Obama says she “grew up like you, knows you…understands the struggles, and pain, and joy that comes from those experiences,” that she has “had to overcome” to achieve in life…I really have to wonder what he means. Does he mean overcome the struggle of having two parents with Ph.Ds from an elite school, one a medical researcher and one a prestigious economist? Does he mean the pain of growing up in Berkeley and then Montreal, attending an elite public high school in a wealthy neighborhood? When he says she has “shared experiences” with them, perhaps he means when she “went ta college wit’cha,” which I’m sure is the dialect he uses behind closed doors at his mansion in Martha’s Vineyard and how he talked while at Columbia and Harvard.
Or perhaps it turns out that her “shared experience” of “The Black Struggle” is just as fake as his, as much of a cheap racial pander playing on stereotypes as any low rent “hot sauce in my purse” type of trick. And perhaps Bill Clinton really is our first, and only, black president.
While we’re at it, and since we’re having so much fun, I’ll include my video about the left’s vicious smears against a black man who rose from literal dirt poverty to the highest court in the land.
To understand how Barack Obama is more of a self-made myth than a self-made man, I highly recommend this interview with Obama biographer David Garrow, and Garrow’s subsequent interview with Megyn Kelly. Alone or together, these two pieces utterly annihilate the Obama Myth. If you care enough to have an opinion about Barack Obama, these are required reading and viewing. And if you know anyone who has an opinion about him, you should share these as well.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/david-garrow-interview-obama
And to pierce the veil on the Kamala Harris Myth, I recommend this excellent piece by Ben Shapiro. Like the pieces on Obama, this one completely undermines and refutes her claimed “humble” upbringing as a “middle class kid” who identifies with “The Black Struggle.”
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