The Obama Factor
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A long, long article with an interview with MLK's biographer.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/david-garrow-interview-obama
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Only read the part before the Q&A, but he said/she said. Everybody has their own biases and that will change how they remember a close relationship and how it ended.
Most likely, the truth of the "fight" is somewhere between the two accounts.
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A useful way to frame Obama is to start with his 60th birthday party gala, its guest list that conforms to the Hollywood saw about being high school with money, and work backwards from there.
He had opportunities to actually lead in the areas where he could have made a good difference. He chose the socially destructive, personally socially advantageous route every time. And he never takes any blame for any of it except from partisan sources.
The Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO was probably his most transparent cowardly social opportunism. The facts were entirely on the side of a non-racial interpretation, of a cop who was legitimately in fear of his own life. But instead, he chose to fan the flames of the race narrative. He and his DOJ soldier Eric Holder. Obama was a failure when it comes to race reconciliation, and continues to be an abject failure as a cultural leader in his post-presidency life.But there's a lot of that going around. Even GWB wrote an open letter condemning institutionalized racism in American policing, after Floyd. He didn't have to do that, and the numbers don't support the narrative that made him do it, but the leftist mind disease convinced him it was the right thing. Humans are predictably, systematically stupid when they are pursuing their "eulogy virtues". People think they know what history will judge, but that is pure hubris. As is the notion that history will converge on whatever someone believes is virtue in the present.
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A useful way to frame Obama is to start with his 60th birthday party gala, its guest list that conforms to the Hollywood saw about being high school with money, and work backwards from there.
He had opportunities to actually lead in the areas where he could have made a good difference. He chose the socially destructive, personally socially advantageous route every time. And he never takes any blame for any of it except from partisan sources.
The Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO was probably his most transparent cowardly social opportunism. The facts were entirely on the side of a non-racial interpretation, of a cop who was legitimately in fear of his own life. But instead, he chose to fan the flames of the race narrative. He and his DOJ soldier Eric Holder. Obama was a failure when it comes to race reconciliation, and continues to be an abject failure as a cultural leader in his post-presidency life.But there's a lot of that going around. Even GWB wrote an open letter condemning institutionalized racism in American policing, after Floyd. He didn't have to do that, and the numbers don't support the narrative that made him do it, but the leftist mind disease convinced him it was the right thing. Humans are predictably, systematically stupid when they are pursuing their "eulogy virtues". People think they know what history will judge, but that is pure hubris. As is the notion that history will converge on whatever someone believes is virtue in the present.
