“It struck me recently that Obama does have a cultural home: he’s the first President from Sesame Street.”
– Time magazine’s Nancy Gibbs, “Tickle Me Obama: Lessons from Sesame Street.”
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“he’s the first President from Sesame Street.”
This may be accurate. However, there is something far more important that should not be ignored: Barack “Barry” Obama is the first president in our nation’s history to directly know little about racial discrimination. He was born in 1961, and the great struggle was essentially over by the time this Hawaiian resident reached his teens. Obama was a beneficiary of the new reality. He has never really been a victim. By the time Obama was 17 years old—it was “in” to be an authentic male of color. He barely had to walk into the door of a room comprised of guilt tripped whites, and they would go out of their way to make sure he was well taken care of. This may not have been the case if Obama had been born a mere five years earlier. That’s how much change occurred in our nation in the mid 1970s.
There is a widely held that that all dark skinned people have suffered enormously in “racist” America. Where is my shovel? This is a crock of bovine excrement. Those minorities born after 1960 in fairly affluent circumstances have essentially had it made. They know full well that white guilt will open doors to them. These folks don’t even have to get good grades, or do much of anything else. Our laws and culture have allowed them to take full advantage of affirmative action programs. They are similar to spoiled white rich kids. Obama is today a very shallow and poorly read man. But why should this be deemed surprising? He never had to do any serious work at Harvard. Obama merely had to learn how to jack the system.