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Obama & The Black Intellectualoids
L.E. Ikenga / American Thinker
Barack Obama owes his position to his membership in a class that is destroying America: the intellectualoids — shallow people able to fool others into believing they possess superior intellects.
In his 2007 book, A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Barack Obama and Why He Can’t Win, Shelby Steele did an excellent job of explaining how and why such a small man might have been on his way to making such big history. Although Mr. Steele’s final assessment of what the outcome was going to be was incorrect, he nevertheless coined two important cultural terms – Challengers and Bargainers– that were polite enough to be used in a benign sort of way when categorizing the two main types of officiating blacks that have defiled our civic square. According to the Challenger-Bargainer theory, Barack Obama was one of the most attractive, articulate, and “bookish” Bargainers that America had come across since the Civil Rights movement, ergo his successful candidacy.
Shelby Steele concluded that Barack Obama was a Bargainer because he did not necessarily hold the sins of slavery and Jim Crow against white Americans. He was a black person willing to give whites a pass on transgressions of the past so long as they did not “see” his color when he sought to become a member in any one of their proverbial country clubs. And of course in his case, it didn’t hurt that he was half white. This as opposed to Challengers, especially those working in politics, media, and academia, who not only delighted in using left-leaning institutions to taunt whites with the sins of their assumed past, but who had also figured out how to make sizable incomes from such bullying tactics. We now know that Obama was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He had been a Challenger all along.
Now when I had previously referred to Barack Obama as a small man, I meant his intellect, or more specifically his poorly trained mind. I believe that Obama is a fundamentally slothful person, with an intellect to match, who has been allowed to hide this vice from everyday people because of Ivy League pageantry. He is an example of an “intellectualoid,” someone with the general appearance of a man or woman of deep learning, but lacking the breadth of knowledge and depth of reason to generate new ideas of utility and significance.
During his 2008 campaign, people who understood the tenure track culture of American higher education knew that there was no way that Obama could have been a constitutional law “professor” at the University of Chicago without having had published a single article for a scholarly journal, like the one his father had written for the East Africa Journal in 1965, or a book on constitutional law; nor do we have any record of Obama presenting papers at academic conferences or being awarded research grants for his work. Despite all of this, New York Times white intellectualoid Nicholas Kristof’s musings on candidate Obama exhibited the exact nonsense that had people taking Obama seriously in the first place.
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