[2ndDivisionVet]

The Author

As a freshman, Remnick joined both The Politic, Yale's undergraduate political journal, and The Yale Historical Review. He was elected Editor-in-Chief of both at the end of the year.

For The Politic, he started a speaker series on campus, which hosted Salman Rushdie and Malcolm Gladwell, among others.

The summer after freshman year, Remnick worked as an intern for the Obama re-election headquarters in Chicago, where he was eventually hired as a paid staffer. He decided to take his fall semester off to continue working for Obama, but he continued to edit the Yale publications while in Chicago.

This summer he will be working in D.C. for West Wing Writers, a speechwriting firm started by former Clinton White House speechwriters.

His parents are David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and Esther Fein of The New York Times.

Funny that the Los Angeles Times didn't mention any of this.

[TexasCajun]

Obviously unqualified to discuss Urban issues!

[madprof98]

This leftist loony naturally figures the real problem facing poor black folks is BIGOTRY and that a “misguided emphasis on personal responsibility” will do nothing to solve that problem. Get ready: these people are now claiming Obama is a failure because he is too CONSERVATIVE!!!

[EagleUSA]

Well, he could have done one better and gone to work for the NYT....seems very qualified.

[yoe]

More of Obama's racist black-America:

[Tax-chick]

This writer thinks that a (somewhat) private initiative to improve education and employment opportunities for black males is a bad thing.

What a putz.

[ConservingFreedom]

African Americans with bachelor’s degrees make 20% less than their white counterparts.

There is no market demand for "African studies" - deal with it.

[all the best]

The problems start right in the title: black America. Not quite sure where that is. Perhaps some country in Africa trying to emulate the U.S.?

[factoryrat]

Throughout history, african blacks, middle easterners, and muslims have enslaved more people than any other groups in history, up to this day. Don't forget to add all of the communist regimes and dictatorships to that list. And last but not least, the US DEMOCRAT party (the dixiecrat party of the KKK) have destroyed more black families than any outside organization ever has.

[Kenny Bunk]

Back in the early days of the CPUSA, their biggest lament was that they could make very little headway amongs the "Negroes," as polite people called them in those days, and as they called themselves. "After all," thought the Communists, "if there was ever a proletariat, why it must be these people!" Unfortunately for the Communists, most were patriotic Christians and ....gasp ...registered Republicans.

By the time FDR consolidated the Socialists, Communists, Progressives and Democrats to win the governorship of New York, the Left had figured it all out. Buy them. Worked like a charm and from the Thirties forward, the "Negroes" were Republicans no more, morphing into the solid Democrat bloc they remain to this day..

Ironically, it was the Democrats who invented Segregation and kept it going, denying Black Republicans in the South the vote, and buying Black Democrat votes in the North.

BTW, This "red diaper" baby surely has all the correct Left credentials, doesn't he? But let's give the Left credit. They soon saw that the dominant folk culture(Trayvon a perfect example) of lower-end African-Americans made any significant improvement in their subsidized lives extremely difficult, no matter how many billions were showered upon them. So, lifting up the lower-end blacks proving too arduous, in order to bring about "racial equality," the Marxist/Socialists have decided to drag down the American bourgeoisie to the level of the lower-end blacks as much as is possible. Shared misery, rather than shared prosperity: it's a common enough MArxist/Socialist tactic.

The American electorate is apparently easy enough to fool into it's own and the Republic's destruction.

[Mears]

“Funny that the Los Angeles Times didn’t mention any of this. “

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At least you did.

Thanks !

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[areukiddingme1]

So the first black president squandered his opportunity to elevate black America and demand more from them, morally, ethically, and spiritually. Instead of speaking about the Better Angels of Our Nature and higher achievement he spoke to the devils and demons that make man petty. EPIC FAIL!!!

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[Organic Panic]

the election of a black president relaxed what remained of our national focus on race matters

That is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Surely this author must be joking. Democrats haven't shut up about race and racism since Obama was elected.

[Peet]

“...racism has been so thoroughly condemned that it only rarely receives public /*0attention.”

Right. And one white duck on the wall times zero to the power of ten equals nothing at all, stick-boy.

(Shamelessly stolen from Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull.)