In a strange coincidence, shortly after my post yesterday about why blacks vote for Obama, the New York Times runs a story by Jodi Kantor about Obama’s relationship with blacks.
Reading between the lines, I think her story confirms what I wrote three and a half years ago, that Obama is actually the whitest president rather than a black president.
Here’s the key quote:
The accusation that Mr. Obama does not care about black suffering appears to carry little weight with the African-American public, and yet it tears at the president, say aides, friends and supporters.
As I wrote yesterday, blacks support Obama because he’s black, yet allegedly Obama feels something which sounds suspiciously like white liberal guilt about not doing enough to help the blacks. Real black people don’t feel guilt about anything. If blacks were running Israel instead of Jews, and they had to deal with a Palestinian problem, decades ago they would have kicked out all of the Palestinians and Arabs to the other side of the Jordan River—problem solved, no more Palestinians—without feeling the least bit guilty about it.
This journalist doesn't seem to fit the stereotypical NYT journalist. While she did attend Ivy League, she went to a public high school. She left law school to write for the Slate. However, she is married to another NYT journalist. Maybe she has lots of connections in the industry.
[HS: Jodi Kantor went to Ivy League schools, and her father is a rich real estate developer. She's typical NYT journalist. She had the luxury of dropping out of HLS because she didn't really need the money of a BIGLAW job given her wealthy family. But she recently got a seven-figure advance for her book about the Obamas, so maybe she can now afford to buy a summer home in the Hamptons so her daughter doesn't feel left out being the only kid without a summer home in the Hamptons.]
Posted by: Josh | October 21, 2012 at 12:38 PM
"She had the luxury of dropping out of HLS because she didn't really need the money of a BIGLAW job"
i.e., She's an unambitious child of the elite.
Another NTY editorialist stereotype to check off.
"so maybe she can now afford to buy a summer home in the Hamptons so her daughter doesn't feel left out being the only kid without a summer home in the Hamptons."
The gift that keeps on giving. Almost as good as giving your son a call girl for his birthday.
[HS: Jodi is too successful to be unambitious. Her ambitions were just directed at journalism rather than BIGLAW. Maybe she had some sort of mid-twenties life crisis that passed after a few months or no longer being an HLS student.]
Posted by: The Undiscovered Jew | October 21, 2012 at 01:22 PM
If ambition = doing drudgery at soulless parasitic organizations because it pays more then I guess she is unambitious.
However, maybe she just wanted to do something useful with her life.
Posted by: asdf | October 21, 2012 at 02:08 PM
"Real black people don’t feel guilt about anything."
This is so true and a main reason I think the US needs to keep blacks from being in charge of anything. I think that white liberals are useful because you need some compassion in a civilized society. It makes sure that we don't just let the machine run everyone down.
But these blacks that they support have no true empathy or compassion. They get angry when bad things happen to black people, but they really could care less about anything else. If blacks ran the Democratic Party, you wouldn't have an environmentalist movement, groups for Latinos, or an anti-war faction. The entire Party would be centered on paying reparations to black people. American blacks truly believe that they are the center of the universe.
Any yes, I have yet to meet a black who is capable of feeling guilty. If they get mad because they think that someone or something is racist, they believe that they're entitled to do just about anything to "remedy" the perceived slight. The smarter ones recognize that whites actually do have a soul and take advantage of this to the fullest extent.
Posted by: AE | October 21, 2012 at 02:17 PM
Slightly off topic from Kantor's article:
“I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you,” he said to Ruby Bridges Hall, who was the first black child to integrate an elementary school in the South. The president repeated the message to a group of Tuskegee airmen, the first black aviators in the United States military; the Memphis sanitation workers the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed in his final speech; and others who came to pay tribute to Mr. Obama and found him saluting them instead."
It is funny how they praise these blacks for being "the first to integrate". I mean, an elementary school kid... give me a break. They totally ignore the veritable army of white and jewish people who actually made it happen. You didn't integrate that!
Posted by: anonymous | October 21, 2012 at 04:02 PM
Well, a related issue is homosexuality among blacks. I think if you look at the statistics, you will see that in any random group of black females, a large % will be lesbians, and in a random group of white females, a small % will be lesbians
If you examine the statistics, it is clear that female homosexuality is driven by what is most convenient for the female, what is popular in her social group.
First example, google the statistics on women who were raised by lesbians. Women over 25 who were raised by lesbians are more than TEN TIMES as likely to be lesbians themselves as women who were raised by heterosexual women. This is strong evidence that lesbianism is learned behaviour, not genetic
Another example, if you spend time among Smith College alumni, what they will pretty much tell you is that at Smith a very large percentage of the students practice a lesbian lifestyle while at college. Upon graduation, more that 80% of the physically attractive Smith alumni start practicing a heterosexual lifestyle and eventually marry men.
If you look exclusively at the Smith graduates who are extremely physically unattractive, more than half of them continue to live a lesbian lifestyle after graduation and never marry men.
Again, there is no proof here, but the strong evidence is that lesbianism is determined by a female's social group, not by her genes.
How does this impact black women vs white women?
Well, if you have population model in which you divide women in to the group that is able to attract a male for a long term relationship, and the women unable to attract a male for a long term relationship, you will find that 90% of white females are able to attract some male for a long term relationship and only 30% of black females are able to attract some male for a long term relationship.
Assume that of the females unable to attract a male for a long term relationship, 20% of those will decide to live a lesbian lifestyle.
Do the math for black females. 70% of black females can't attract a male for long term relationship. 20% of those decide to live a lesbian lifestyle. 70% times 20% = 14% of black women living as lesbians
Do the math for white females. 10% of white females can't attract a male for a long term relationship. 20% of those decide to live a lesbian lifestyle. 10% times 20% = 2% of white women living as lesbians
Again, I invite others who can explain the numbers with a different mathematical model to chime in. I don't claim to have all the answers & want to hear other explanations.
Posted by: Arnold Gold | October 21, 2012 at 06:19 PM
Awwww, Obama, don't feel bad. Liberal Jews have been sucking up to blacks for decades, and blacks still hate Jews. To expect gratitude from blacks is as unrealistic as expecting conscientiousness or future-time orientation.
Posted by: JP | October 21, 2012 at 06:22 PM
Three lies in that piece.
1. Trayvon was not killed by a white.
2. The person who wanted to put the white back in white house did not make it to the romney rally.
3. There was no racial slur in the backdrop -only in the painting of Ms. Hall.
Seriously, is there a category of people who lie more than libs? For them this is all good, a means to a better end .. honesty be damned.
Posted by: fresh off the boat brown | October 21, 2012 at 06:36 PM
"You didn't integrate that!"
Ha! Quote of the week!
Posted by: lil mike | October 21, 2012 at 10:06 PM
Arnold: yeah. Unattractive men go for World of Warcraft instead of turning gay. It's kind of sad, actually--at least the lesbians have someone to be with, and a philosophy and social group that validates their choices. If lots of black men are in jail, lots of black women will become gay.
Posted by: SFG | October 21, 2012 at 10:38 PM
SFG had the comment of the day when he said:
" Arnold: yeah. Unattractive men go for World of Warcraft instead of turning gay. It's kind of sad, actually--at least the lesbians have someone to be with "
SFG is correct. It is kind of sad how terrible things turn out for the unattractive men. I think it is because unattractive men are often quite passive and accept failure rather than trying to re frame the situation.
I mean, there are thousands and thousands of gorgeous females in Cambodia and Laos who would be happy to marry the most unattractive males in America. But the unattractive males in America decide by and large to settle for world of warcraft instead.
Posted by: Welat | October 21, 2012 at 11:54 PM
"This journalist doesn't seem to fit the stereotypical NYT journalist.
Posted by: Josh | October 21, 2012 at 12:38 PM"
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A Jewish liberal Democrat female from an "elite" family.
Sounds about right for the NYT to me.
Posted by: Rifleman | October 22, 2012 at 12:25 AM
Maybe Obama feels guilty about not helping "the" blacks because he self-identifies as (and is) one?
Naaaah. That makes too much sense.
It would also mean blacks feel guilt about things, which we all know is not true!
Posted by: Bill | October 22, 2012 at 04:23 AM
"Jodi is too successful to be unambitious. Her ambitions were just directed at journalism rather than BIGLAW."
Journalists are notoriously lazy and uninteresting.
[HS: This may be true of B-level journalists, but Jodi one of the nation's most successful A-level journalists.]
Posted by: The Undiscovered Jew | October 22, 2012 at 09:52 AM
If slavery involved black masters and white slaves, it would be perfectly OK with them.
Posted by: sestamibi | October 22, 2012 at 02:32 PM
"Smith graduates who are extremely physically unattractive, more than half of them continue to live a lesbian lifestyle after graduation and never marry men.
Again, there is no proof here, but the strong evidence is that lesbianism is determined by a female's social group, not by her genes."
That sounds like a genetic explanation, though it's mediated by the genes for ugly and fat, rather than some "gay gene".
Posted by: Anthony | October 22, 2012 at 02:53 PM