If I had to blame someone, it would be Obama, who set race relations back 30 years. His white mother was a socialist, his white grandmother was a communist, and he was steeped in the culture of class warfare. Today, he's the first ex-president to remain in D.C. and to hold court with current Administration officials. Shameless.
If I had to blame someone, it would be Obama, who set race relations back 30 years. His white mother was a socialist, his white grandmother was a communist, and he was steeped in the culture of class warfare. Today, he's the first ex-president to remain in D.C. and to hold court with current Administration officials. Shameless.
Every time I think about the "hope" candidate, and that ubiquitous poster in 2008, and the profound cynicism of it all—all I remember is how sucked into it I was, how badly I wanted to believe in it. I wonder if he ever wonders about how much damage he did with all us stupid white people.
It was a great poster. After decades we all wanted to believe we were past all this nonsense. Boy, were we wrong. Obama legitimized racial grievance as if it was some undiscovered truth. In a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society, he took sides. He was the President of ALL. Americans, but you’d never know it. Now, he’s the first post-President to remain in D.C. He hangs with the rich and famous, his net worth having exploded. He is a living mockery of those who voted for him.
If I had to blame someone, it would be Obama, who set race relations back 30 years. His white mother was a socialist, his white grandmother was a communist, and he was steeped in the culture of class warfare. Today, he's the first ex-president to remain in D.C. and to hold court with current Administration officials. Shameless.
Every time I think about the "hope" candidate, and that ubiquitous poster in 2008, and the profound cynicism of it all—all I remember is how sucked into it I was, how badly I wanted to believe in it. I wonder if he ever wonders about how much damage he did with all us stupid white people.
See my June 8 comment on this subject:
https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/tgif-june-8-2023-wildfires-nyc-donald-trump?r=ydu56&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=17106368
It was a great poster. After decades we all wanted to believe we were past all this nonsense. Boy, were we wrong. Obama legitimized racial grievance as if it was some undiscovered truth. In a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society, he took sides. He was the President of ALL. Americans, but you’d never know it. Now, he’s the first post-President to remain in D.C. He hangs with the rich and famous, his net worth having exploded. He is a living mockery of those who voted for him.