..."I direct your attention to Mrs. Obamas 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community. To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be read at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasnt written in any known language.
Anyway, at quite an early stage in the text, Michelle Obama announces that shes much influenced by the definition of black separationism offered by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton in their 1967 screed Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America.
I remember poor Stokely Carmichael quite well. After a hideous series of political and personal fiascos, he fled to Africa, renamed himself Kwame Toure after two of West Africas most repellently failed dictators, and then came briefly back to the United States before electing to die in exile.
I last saw him as the warm-up speaker for Louis Farrakhan in Madison Square Garden in 1985, on the evening when Farrakhan made himself famous by warning Jews, You cant say Never Again to God, because when he puts you in the ovens, youre there forever.
I have the distinct feeling that the Obama campaign cant go on much longer without an answer to the question: Are we getting two for one? And dont be giving me any grief about asking this. Black Americans used to think that the Clinton twosome was their best friend, too. This time we should find out before its too late to ask.
Marilyn Katz is not merely a friend of Jarretts but also both Obamas. The president met Katz through his first job at a law firm run by Judd Miner. The New York Times reports Katz gave him entry into another activist network: the foot soldiers of the white student and black power movements that helped define Chicago in the 1960s.
Susan Sher, who helped Jarrett recruit Michelle Obama to the Chicago mayors office before Michelle married the president, said, I dont think either of them [the Obamas] made major decisions without talking to her, adding that Jarrett failed to appreciate how incredibly instrumental shell be in virtually everything in the White House.
In late July, Katz joined Jarrett and Sher in Washington at the Obama administrations celebration of the 37th anniversary of Title IX. Katz, the unrepentant 60s nail-tosser, now has a well-placed patron and a history as part of the first familys inner circle. All three are indebted to her, literally or figuratively, and she enjoys their affections. Though she is the most disturbing to come to light, she is hardly Jarretts only extremist influence.
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