The View From Martha’s Vineyard
17th October 2024
“Former President Barack Obama sternly chided Black men over ‘excuses’ to not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” ABC News reports. This recalls Joe Biden’s charge that blacks “ain’t black” if they failed to support the Delaware Democrat. On the left being “black” is a matter of politics, and that recalls one of the many attacks on author Thomas Sowell.
Back in the 1990s Clinton civil rights pick Lani Guinier charged that Sowell was not authentically black because he failed to support affirmative action. Sowell, author of The Economics and Politics of Race and many other books, shot back, “I don’t need some half-white woman from Martha’s Vineyard telling me about being black.” In 2024, nobody needs a half-white former president from Martha’s Vineyard telling them anything.
As David Garrow confirmed, his Dreams from My Father was a novel, not an autobiography or memoir. For Tablet’s David Samuels, “there was something about this “fictional character that he created actually becoming president that helped precipitate the disaster that we are living through now.” The composite character played a divide-and-con game. No scandals in his administration and under Obamacare you could keep your doctor and your health plan. As his recent orders to black men confirm, the prodigious liar hasn’t lost his touch.