WHY BARACK OBAMA MIGHT DISLIKE BLACK PEOPLE
By David Gottfried
In our throwaway society, Obama might seem like old news, but he is still very relevant. The New York media market, for example, is being flooded with advertisements for candidates in the 2021 mayoral race, and one of the candidates has just one message and that is that Obama likes him. Ergo, we should support him. Very simply, Obama commands tremendous and inordinate respect from throngs of blacks, young people etc. Before these people accept Obama’s selection in New York’s mayoral race, perhaps they ought to consider the evidence that Obama does not like black people or, at the very least, has a perturbed and neurotic relationship with black people and, consequently, with progressive politics in general.
I propose that Barack Obama might harbor enormous resentment toward black people and that this may have made his efforts to help black people and working class white people especially tepid and ineffectual.
Barack Obama was abandoned by his black Father.
Barack was raised and saved by his White Mother and his White Grandparents. Barack was at times rejected by black people, in Chicago, for not being black enough.
Barack was and is a brilliant, powerful, talented man. He is strong, but he was genteel.
Barack may claim he despises white racism and oppression. But on a certain level Barack wants to tear the buffoons and the deserting fathers and the alcoholics and the druggies of the black community apart with more ferocity than Jesse Helms ever wanted to.
Because Jesse Helms wasn’t hurt by Black Men. Barrack was. He was hurt by his Father.
And imagine the contrasts Barack must have experienced.
Hawaii is perhaps the most tolerant state in the nation and has less racial consciousness than any state of the nation. Barack went to a school in Hawaii with lots of white students, and Asian students, and from most accounts was accepted.
And what happened to him in Chicago. Think of what must have happened in a place like Chicago.
Who have been the Champions of Black Civil Rights in Chicago?
A man who said that AIDS was a conspiracy by Jewish doctors to kill black babies.
Jeremiah Wright and other practitioners of race and hate-based politics.
Chicago is an especially bullheaded, stupid town. It is, in a sense, New York without art. It has New York’s industry and vigor but none of its intelligence or wit. Chicago is Mayor Daley and stockyards and a vast, hoodlumized Southside of senescence and crime.
In any event, Barack must, on a certain level, hate the black world: His black father rejected him, and after having enjoyed the sunshine of tolerant and progressive Hawaii, he met, in Chicago, a black world which seemed to exult in being a surly and sniggering lumpenproleteriat. And on top of this, his Mother, in a masochistic manner which seemed to condone her husband’s crime of abandonment, always encouraged him to love his black identity. He cannot allow himself to express hostility toward the black world, and so he expresses hostility to the white world.
At times, his hostility toward his fellow blacks bubbled- up like a geyser. In Harvard Law School, he entertained his fellow students by doing uproariously funny and disparaging impressions of Jesse Jackson.
In any event, as a President he hurt black people by kow towing and acceding to Republican intolerance and their class war against poor people.
In March 2009, the Dow was under 7000. When Obama left the presidency it was in the vicinity of 20,000. When he took office, the country was in an especially liberal mood because of the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009. Polls showed that a great majority of Americans said that anyone who wanted Medicare should get it. But Obama not only shied away from the single payor option. He also decided not to let Medicare bargain with big pharma. But then again Obama got more money from big pharma than either his general election opponent, John Mc Cain, or his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton.
His record on housing was especially grim. The People’s Policy Project, a progressive think tank funded by small donors through the ACT BLUE and Patreon Platforms, found that the percentage of black homeowners whose mortgages were underwater multiplied 20-fold between 2007 and 2013.
Among other things, Obama’s programs for homeowners at risk of foreclosure were abysmal. His Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP) gave aid to financial entities that were supposed to aid homeowners but those financial entities just continued to rip the homeowners off. Servicers blatantly abused the program, often illegally, and the administration didn’t take back any govt payments to those servicers.
Most middle class blacks had their wealth in their homes. The devastation inflicted on black home ownership decimated black wealth.
Likewise, shortly after his stimulus program got off the ground, he was attacked for huge deficits and he profusely apologized for the deficits. He should have said that deficits are the whole point of a stimulus, that deficits bring us out of recession, and should have taught this nation a few fundamental things about economics (Years ago, Presidents tried to educate people.
For his fireside chats, FDR suggested that people get a map so they would understand something about our troop movements in world war two. Nowadays, politicians just use focus groups to determine what words woo the ignorant masses and then give silly stupid speeches liberally sprinkled with the favorite words of the day) By apologizing for the wholly intentional and worthwhile deficits, he energized republican efforts to curb the deficits (and their stimulative effect) and this made his recovery languish, and this is one of the reasons why Donald Trump won.
Obama is a very bright gentlemen who, if he were white, could have been a very good friend of the stuffiest and most retrograde elites in Victorian and Edwardian England. But he wouldn’t have been a found of wisdom then, and he is no oracle of wisdom now.