Barack Obama's Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply

by Jack Cashill

Overview

Black Americans hoped Barack Obama would lead them to the “Promised Land,” and white Americans hoped he would reconcile the races, but by failing to understand his country or himself, Obama pulled the nation apart.

In his introduction to the world at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then state senator Barack Obama insisted, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America—there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America.” But as his latest memoir, A Promised Land, makes clear, Obama inhabits a smug, elite liberal America in which conservatives are not welcome. Indeed, from Obama’s perspective, their every thought, gesture, and vote is insincere and likely racist.

Although the Obama memoir is obsessed with race, Obama as president and as writer has refused to address the one problem he knew to be at the heart of America’s racial divide: the disintegration of the black family. While Obama and his peers have profited from the opportunities America offers, his lack of courage has doomed the black inner city to another generation of crime, drugs, and educational failure. To divert attention from his own failure, Obama has cast the right as the “other” in his ongoing melodrama—driving a wedge between black and white that will take generations to heal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642939057
Publisher:	Post Hill Press
Publication date:	07/06/2021
Pages:	227
Sales rank:	116,026
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

An independent writer and producer, Jack Cashill has written a dozen nonfiction books and appeared on C-SPAN’s Book TV ten times. He also produced a score of feature-length documentaries. Jack serves as executive editor of Ingram’s Magazine. He writes regularly for American Thinker, American Spectator, and WorldNetDaily and has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, the Washington Post, and the Weekly Standard. Jack has a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American studies and has taught at a French university under the auspices of the Fulbright program.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acting Like Boys Instead of Men 1

I Can No More Disown Him 5

A Real American 8

The Crazies 15

Spooked by a Black Man in the White House 21

I Have Never Learned to Sail 27

An Attention-Seeking Real Estate Developer 37

I Didn't Know My Father 41

There Were Black Folks Who Heard It 45

A Guy Who Lives in My Neighborhood 51

The American Way and AH That Shit 56

A Smaller and Smaller Coil of Rage 63

Subprime Lending Started Off as a Good Idea 69

Kill Him! 73

Knee-Deep in the Subprime Market 77

Almost Forty and Broke 82

There's No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Projects 88

Warts and Unwanted Compromises 93

The Old Camelot Magic 97

I Make Love to Men Daily 102

Above My Pay Grade 110

This Could Get Her Knocked off the Ballot 114

My Shadowy Muslim Heritage 118

I've Been Fighting Alongside ACORN 123

Fox News Conspiracy Theorizing 130

I Instructed Hillary 134

Apache Helicopters Leveling Entire Neighborhoods 138

We're Gonna Punish Our Enemies 143

Wandering a Cracked Earth 147

A Serious Mistake Had Been Made 154

Journalists Threatened, Arrested, Beaten, Attacked 166

The Sound of Car Locks Clicking 169

Eating Chicken and Listening to Stevie Wonder 172

If We Are Honest with Ourselves 183

Endnotes 187

About the Author 209