Watching Obama speak and perform, this makes (some) sense to me while little else is making any sense at all.

But Obama chose another path, the one that allowed him to save face; he made the personal political.

His father didn’t choose to desert him; racism was at fault. His mother didn’t abandon him; the system was to blame. Obama’s grandparents didn’t corrupt him by giving a creepy guy like Davis personal access to him; they were acting like “typical white [people]“.

Making the personal political