A A Lost Manuscript Shows the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/obama-lost-book-manuscript.html

 

[OfTheCross]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Obama is a fukking genius

Mr. Obama and Mr. Fisher didn’t pretend that racism had been expunged from American life. “Precisely because America is a racist society,” they wrote, “we cannot realistically expect white America to make special concessions towards blacks over the long haul.” Demanding that white Americans grapple with four centuries of racial oppression might be a morally respectable position, but it was terrible politics. “Those blacks who most fervently insist on the pervasiveness of white racism have adopted a strategy that depends on white guilt for its effectiveness,” they wrote, ridiculing the idea that whites would “one day wake up, realize the error of their ways, and provide blacks with wholesale reparations in order to expiate white demons.”

Economics were a safer bet. Blue-collar workers of all races, Mr. Obama and Mr. Fisher wrote, “understood in concrete ways the fact that America’s individualist mythology covers up a game that is fixed against them.” But this pragmatic streak also could also be a trap for reformers hoping to bridge the racial divide. “If it has been working-class whites who have been most vociferous in their opposition to affirmative action,” Mr. Obama and Mr. Fisher wrote, “this at least in part arises out of an accurate assessment [that] they are the most likely to lose in any redistributionist game.”

 

[kronix]

Obama truly was a philosopher king. Not some cookie cutter tick some boxes power hungry politician. He genuinely had a deep passion for understanding the economic/political structure of the country in order to help the less fortunate.

 

[kronix]

Obama was an interesting candidate because being black he didn't have to focus on race so much and could run more to the left economically. With white candidates if you do the same it's easy to be seen as a class reductionist which would piss off your minority base (e.g. Bernie losing the black vote despite promoting more beneficial policies).

 

[Gloxina]

Definitely a brilliant man, but common sense would tell you that this nation is too racist to actually tackle race and reparations.

That’s why Bernie was focused on economics and didn’t focus on race. He understood these ppl are racist as hell so there was one way to bring them into the fold and create policies that help everyone. The goal was to flip the White working class who would normally vote Republican.

But this just shows Obama was a brilliant young man who already had a game plan for his future endeavors.

 

[Sir ZDuke]

Obama is a genius for echoing opinions post modernist and leftist philosophers have expressed since the 60s?

I will give him credit , though, for being more aware of the struggle than people give him credit for