I spent more time than I really should being desperately annoyed at David Samuels interviewing David Garrow so he could bring in his half-baked Obama theories in the guise of questions (I am delighted that Samuels is trying to do a newspaper for the rest of the country because a very small, specific group of New York liberals is the foil for almost everything he does at Tablet). Spouse very sensibly said "Obama had his 8 years". But I was willing to extend an olive branch there that for someone who was elected as community organizer in chief Obama dropped the ball as far as actual organizing. One VERY extraordinary person in so many ways was under pressure to be everything to everybody and could only do so much without getting individual Black and white people civically involved in a common project to make them see that they had common interests. Individuals' disappointment in Obama not doing what THEY had hoped a Black president could do may have reflected back towards their attitudes about race relations in general.
I spent more time than I really should being desperately annoyed at David Samuels interviewing David Garrow so he could bring in his half-baked Obama theories in the guise of questions (I am delighted that Samuels is trying to do a newspaper for the rest of the country because a very small, specific group of New York liberals is the foil for almost everything he does at Tablet). Spouse very sensibly said "Obama had his 8 years". But I was willing to extend an olive branch there that for someone who was elected as community organizer in chief Obama dropped the ball as far as actual organizing. One VERY extraordinary person in so many ways was under pressure to be everything to everybody and could only do so much without getting individual Black and white people civically involved in a common project to make them see that they had common interests. Individuals' disappointment in Obama not doing what THEY had hoped a Black president could do may have reflected back towards their attitudes about race relations in general.