How Obama first began to idealize blackness

In a long article, “Obama’s Afrocentrism is his mother’s passive-aggressive revenge on her Indonesian second husband,” Steve Sailer, still on his continuing and fruitful quest for the true Obama, explains how it was Barack’s mother who instilled in him the idealization of his absent father, and then of the entire black race, as a repository of upright virtue. He sums up his argument thus:

But he’s never quite gotten over his mother’s indoctrination that 1) Being a politician, especially a politician who stands up for his race, is the highest calling in life, far superior to being some corporate sell-out like her second husband; and 2) What blacks need is not more virtue, but merely better political leadership to achieve a higher form of power.

Or, in his case, the highest.

By the way, I am still at a loss to understand why Sailer, when he first wrote about Dreams from My Father in March 2007, failed to provide quotes from the book to back up his argument that Obama was race obsessed. The surprising absence of evidence caused me at the time to dismiss Sailer’s claim. To my knowledge it was only many months later, indeed a year later, at the time of the Rev. Wright revelations in March 2008, that Sailer began directly quoting the passages in Obama’s book—such as his stunning reaction to his grandmother’s understandable fear of an aggressive black beggar—that showed the onset of the conscious anti-whiteness that the race-transcending miracle worker is still demonstrating today.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 15, 2008 10:01 PM | Send