Overcoming Obama

"In the midst of chaos, there is opportunity."
— Sun Tzu, Art of War

Translation: one is unaware of the opportunities one has missed because people are so often fixated on protecting themselves from change.

Today, an “opportunity” exists to overcome the Obama racism that blocks a better economy.

Obama is Affirmative Action Man. As said earlier, Obama currently leads the civil rights turn away from “all are created equal” toward special status for blacks (women and other minorities).

The alternative offered to Obama by Columbia’s John McWhorter was not doing away with affirmative action. It was instead making affirmative action about class, not race.

That’s where Martin Luther King, Jr. was heading at the time of his 1968 assassination. He understood his next civil rights challenge — fighting poverty — to be harder than previous campaigns for black equality and justice. He would help those at the economic bottom, white, black, brown.

Obama, like Old South segregationist Democrats before him, uses race to hold together a coalition crossing class lines and formed against a domestic enemy. Segregationists fought blacks in the South; Obama battles supposed “white supremacists” opposing racial affirmative action. Then and now, the elite objective is holding (economic) power.

Today's progressive coalition is our elite. “One person, one vote” democracy empowers voters below the elite level. Those having fought to the top want to stay there. So they hang onto power by assembling vote-supplying coalitions — blacks, Hispanics, unmarried women, youth, government workers, LGBTQIs — led by elite influencers from high tech, corporations, non-profits, academia, media, entertainment.

Progressives fear any force using the Republican Party to offer masses the prosperity and security they want. As traditional religion fades, progressives have developed their quasi-religion to throw against conservative Christianity, Judaism and free enterprise economic successes. It’s religion built on the “science” of climate change and the “morality” of race-based affirmative action. Progressive high priests include climate cardinals Al Gore and John Kerry, led by racial justice saint Barack Obama.

Here’s evidence Obama — living in the top 1% — seeks racial, not class, division:

• “True justice requires that we come to terms with the fact that Black Americans are treated differently, every day,” (May 2021)

• “Our hearts are heavy over yet another shooting of a Black man, Daunte Wright.   .   . Michelle and I grieve alongside the Wright family for their loss. We empathize with the pain that Black mothers, fathers, and children are feeling after yet another senseless tragedy. And we will continue to work with all fair-minded Americans to confront historical inequities and bring about nationwide changes that are so long overdue.” [emphasis added] (April 2021)
  

Please note these facts about Daunte Wright from Scott McKay, American Spectator:

Daunte Wright had fled from officers in June. He was reported to the police for waving a gun around, and when the cops showed up it turned out Wright didn’t have a permit for the gun. He ran away. And he was cited and ordered to appear in court. He didn’t, which occasioned the warrant for his arrest. There was [a] February arrest for aggravated robbery. There was a disorderly conduct charge arising from a 2019 incident. There was the guilty plea in late 2019 to possession and sale of marijuana. And there was an arrest warrant for armed robbery; Wright was accused of choke-holding a woman and threatening her at gunpoint, demanding $820 intended to pay her rent.

Wright dropped out of high school, then fathered a child out of wedlock he couldn’t support with minimum-wage jobs and petty drug dealing. He had borrowed $50 from his parents to take his car to a car wash and had his girlfriend in the car with him, with expired license tags. He was stopped by the police, resisted arrest, and then attempted to drive away — which raised the likelihood that he would expose his girlfriend to bodily harm. She was apparently injured when, as he bled out following being shot by Officer Potter, he crashed the car attempting a getaway.

• “We have to remember that for millions of Americans, being treated differently on account of race is tragically, painfully, maddeningly ‘normal.’  This shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in 2020 America. It can’t be ‘normal.’ ” (May 2020)
  

• “the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives — you know, that casts a long shadow. And that's still part of our DNA that's passed on. We're not cured of it. Racism. We are not cured of it.   .   . It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don't overnight completely erase everything that happened 200-300 years prior.” (2015)
  

• “my main message is to the parents of Trayvon. If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon. I think they are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and we will get to the bottom of exactly what happened." (2012)
  

• “when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.

 “There are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me.  There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me -- at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often. [I]f a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different." [emphasis added] (2013)

As to the economy, Obama may have little interest in making free enterprise work because he is a socialist. In 1998, before he ran for president, he said, 

I think the trick is figuring out, how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody’s got a shot.

Stripped-down, that quote means: “How do we structure government to facilitate redistribution, because I believe in redistribution.”

In other words, Obama likes the Communist Manifesto’s “To each according to his needs.”

And doing so, he would put all power China-like in the hands of the state.