Barack The Divider

Phyllis Schlafly’s recent column, “The Audacity of Obama“, illuminates (referring to Obama’s autobiography”Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”) the fact the racial strife is central theme in Barack Obama’s adult life. The most striking aspect of this is that Obama seems to have worked toward convincing himself that he was a victim of racial injustice and perhaps sought relevance by injecting racism into his life.

Obama describes how he deliberately separated himself from his multiracial heritage in order to give himself a 100 percent black persona, different and alienated from the white world around him. Obama writes that the book is “a record of a personal, interior journey” to establish himself as “a black American.”

With his new all-black identity, Obama stews about injustices that he never personally experienced, and feeds his warped worldview by withdrawing into a “smaller and smaller coil of rage.” He lives with a “nightmare vision” of black powerlessness.

Was it a romanticized notion of belonging to a grand struggle that moved Barack Obama to plunge himself into a new narrative, one separate from his actual experience? Was it simply that he believed that his path to political power might be most expeditiously paved by this transformation?

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