In an interview with Anderson Cooper that aired Monday on CNN, Barack Obama showed once again how well he has mastered the art of sanctimony.
"You would think with all the public policy debates that are taking place right now that the Republican Party would be engaged in a significant debate about how are we going to deal with the economy and what are we going to do about climate change?" Obama said to Cooper.
He added, "Lo and behold, the single most important issue to them apparently right now is Critical Race Theory. Who knew that that was the threat to our republic?"
In researching my forthcoming book, Barack Obama's Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply, I found myself continually amazed at the price America has had to pay for Obama's spectacular failure to know who he is and to acknowledge how he got where he got.
I had a new insight into Obama's self-delusion from reading a 1995 article in his neighborhood newspaper, The Hyde Park Herald, unearthed by Los Angeles filmmaker Joel Gilbert.
Interviewed soon after the release of his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama tries to explain how he ended up becoming "black."
He attributed his revelation, wrote reporter Monice Mitchell, "to an eye opening experience with affirmative action [AA] while attending Punahou Academy, a prestigious prep school in Honolulu."
"He had no choice about his racial identity," wrote Mitchell. "To be half-white was to be black all the way." Without being too specific, Obama acknowledged that even fifty years ago, being "black" paid dividends.
Having accepted his blackness, Obama led Mitchell to believe that "he started hanging out with a group of similarly young angry black men and dabbled with drugs and trouble." This claim would have amused his best friend from high school, Keith Kakugawa, or "Ray" as Obama called him in Dreams from My Father. No one had a better perspective on Obama's racial shape-shifting than Kakugawa.
The friendship, Obama writes in Dreams, was "due in no small part to the fact that together we made up almost half of Punahou's black high school population." Obama is famously half-black. Kakugawa is one-eighth black. The pair did not exactly make prime recruiting material for the Crips' Hawaiian franchise.
Speaking of Crips, says Kakugawa about Obama in his own self-published book, "He was cripplingly self-conscious about [race]." Obama was not too self-conscious to play the AA card when it came to getting ahead. Although admittedly an indifferent student, he found himself after high school at Occidental, one of the priciest colleges on the West Coast.
"You know, it just so happens my first car was a '76 Fiat," Obama reports telling his colleagues in his newest memoir, A Promised Land. "Bought it used, my freshman year of college. Red, five-speed stick." It wasn't that used. Obama started college in 1979. As the purchase suggests, Obama lived a privileged life. I cannot imagine too many other black eighteen-year-olds in L.A. buying Fiats, even used ones.
After a middling two years at Occidental, Obama rode his AA card to the Ivy League — Columbia, to be precise. He graduated in 1983 but without honors. That did not stop Obama from dreaming big. He tells the reader in Dreams that he settled on three possibilities: "Harvard, Yale, Stanford." Obama was not deluding himself. Harvard, he knew, was keener on his DNA than his GPA, let alone his LSAT.
In a rare honest moment at Harvard, he shared the secret that his followers refuse to acknowledge. Yes, as he explained in a letter to the Harvard Law Record, he was "someone who has undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career, and as someone who may have benefited from the Law Review's affirmative action policy." May have?
For fifty years Obama and people like him have been scamming the system. Critical Race Theory is a codification of that scam. To justify the unearned benefits that come with being black or half-black, the "theorists" have to pretend that the continuing risks of being black justify the rewards.
This results in an increased demand for evidence of racism amid a dwindling supply. In the absence of real racism, the theorists have had to imagine it or to re-create it à la Jussie Smollett and a thousand other hoaxers across the fruited plain.
With mandatory CRT imposed in schools and other institutions, the CRT "trainers" are able to demand that whites imagine a racist America along with them. Those who refuse this nonsense, who refuse to live their lives in the requisite shame and guilt, further justify CRT by their seeming embrace of white supremacy, the new and even more ludicrous label now applied even to unyielding African-Americans.
Sorry, Barry, but CRT is a threat to our Republic. Anderson Cooper may believe your blather about "right-wing media venues" monetizing and capitalizing "on stoking the fear and resentment of a white population that is witnessing a changing America." But it is all on you.
In 2008, even Republicans hoped Obama would succeed at pulling the races together. He had a unique historic opportunity. But instead, to justify his failures in office, he and Michelle encouraged their followers to read "race" into every slight, every disparity, every grievance. Deception was Obama's strategy. Division is his legacy, and CRT is his tool for widening the divide. He should own it!
Jack Cashill's latest book, Barack Obama's Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply, is now on pre-sale. See www.cashill.com for more information
Political correctness and double standards are all over the place these days
Over the last few years, we are frequently learning new things that have become unacceptable.
An actress goes to a ball that has been around for over one hundred years, and it is suddenly forbidden.
'The Office' Actress Ellie Kemper Apologizes for Attending a Ball, Acknowledges Her White Privilege
It is unacceptable to have ever used the word "antebellum" or to have attended a wedding or anything else at a plantation house.
We can never wear a Halloween costume where we pretend we are of a different race.
We can't pretend we have a different heritage by misappropriating someone else's garb or nationality.
We can't see Snow White because the prince kissed her without permission. That is clearly sexual abuse.
Supreme Court justices are not eligible, whether white or black, if they have ever been accused of inappropriate actions of anyone no matter how long ago it occurred and no matter if there is any evidence. The accusation is all that matters. (Of course, this seems to matter only for people nominated by Republicans.)
It is racist to require a photo ID to vote despite the significant majority of all races approving the policy and the ease to get the ID for all people.
Being pro-life or limiting abortions is racist.
Giving a speech about statues where you say there are good people on both sides of the issue will be misrepresented as not just racist, but supportive of neo-Nazis, regardless of the facts.
Despicable people such as Joe Biden and Barack Obama will continue to lie about what you said for years.
If you are a senator and filibuster anything Biden wants, you are a racist.
Now here are things that most people posing as journalists accept as perfectly acceptable:
A Virginia governor and Jimmy Kimmel appearing in blackface if not actual Klan hoods. They are surviving and thriving.
A Democrat senator who falsely claimed she was of Indian heritage for years. This allowed her to move up at Harvard for years, and she is widely respected.
A school that can teach children everything about sex starting in kindergarten but won't allow children to see Snow White. That, you see, is dangerous.
Ted Kennedy could leave a mistress to die to protect his political power and could have a "waitress sandwich" with Sen. Chris Dodd, and he was celebrated as a champion of women.
Bill and Hillary Clinton could physically and mentally abuse as many women as they wanted. Then they could seek to destroy them, and the media, Hollywood, and other Democrats didn't care. They were said to be very respectful of women's rights. The women they abused were disposable.
Bill Clinton could hang around with well-known pedophile Jeff Epstein, and few cared. The young girls were disposable.
Joe Biden is from Delaware, which requires photo IDs to vote, yet not once have I heard him or others accuse Delaware of having Jim Crow laws and being racist.
Democrats filibustered laws they didn't like 327 times in 2020, and not once, that I can find, did anyone posing as a journalist claim that their obstruction was racist.
Democrats support prevailing wage laws that were racist in intent. These laws were meant to keep poor minorities from taking white workers' jobs. Why are Democrats demanding adherence to laws that have oppressed minorities and taxpayers for ninety years? Why is this OK with supposed journalists? Isn't it racist?
Planned Parenthood was founded by a woman who wanted birth control to limit the population of people she deemed undesirable. Margaret Sanger's legacy of "elimination of the unfit" is appalling:
While liberals praise Planned Parenthood for its contributions to the health of women (unborn infants carrying the feminine XX chromosomes excluded), no one seems eager to discuss the organization's origin or its racist founder, eugenics advocate, Margaret Sanger. For the record, according to Merriam-Webster, eugenics is "the practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the population's genetic composition."
Planned Parenthood continues to abort black and brown babies at a rate much higher than their percentage of the population. Democrats support quotas for everything, but somehow not for abortions. Isn't that racist?
So it is not OK to attend a ball or go to an old plantation, but it is absolutely necessary for Democrats to use taxpayer money to support an organization like PP that was founded by a despicable eugenicist.
There was no outrage when Obama and Biden gave glowing eulogies to the white supremacist, racist, KKK leader Robert Byrd, who filibustered the Civil Rights law.
Democrats block vouchers and charter schools that minorities support, but somehow that is not condemned as racist.
Biden said blacks ain't black if they don't vote for him, that all blacks vote alike, that blacks don't have the ability to get photo IDs to vote, and that blacks have great ideas but don't have accountants and lawyers? Those statements are all appalling racist statements, yet the media, Hollywood, and other Democrats don't care.
My summary is this: Democrats can do whatever they like, and almost all people pretending to be journalists will support them all the way to the president.
Republicans can have policies that lower unemployment rates for people of all races and education levels to record lows, can raise wages for those at the bottom, can reduce poverty to record lows, and Democrat campaign workers, posing as journalists, will seek to destroy them every day, no matter how many lies and conspiracies, like Russian collusion, they need to conjure up.
Facts and results clearly don't matter. Power for leftists is all that matters.
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