“There’s a mood out there,” said former President Barack Obama while stumping for Terry McAuliffe last weekend in the Virginia governor’s race. “There’s a politics of meanness and division and conflict, of tribalism and cynicism.”
I have always doubted whether Obama wrote the books attributed to him. But upon hearing the above, I began to doubt whether he even read them, especially his most recent book, “A Promised Land.”
The 2019 memoir is a tribute to the joys of tribalism. The same president who inspired the nation at the 2004 Democratic National Convention promising “there is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America – there’s the United States of America,” has more and more taken refuge in his self-constructed “blackness.”
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