[American Thinker] On Friday’s broadcast of "CBS This Morning," Michelle Obama made the delusional claim, one among several, that "many of us still live in fear as we go to the grocery store, or walking our dogs, or allowing our children to get a license."
Had Michelle attributed that fear to a wariness of black drive-by gang bangers or street muggers, it might have made some sense. But her fear, she implied, was of racist police.
Barack Obama knows better, but he has lived in fear as well. That fear deformed his presidency and sent the nation spiraling down a lethal rabbit hole that has benefitted no one more than the Mao-loving matrons of BLM.
Not surprisingly, as I learned in researching my forthcoming book, Barack Obama’s Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply, there is no one Barack fears more than wife Michelle, his personal emissary from the world of authentic African-Americans.
In a May 2011 interview, activist professor Cornel West nailed Obama on this fear. "All he has known culturally is white," said West. "He is just as human as I am, but that is his cultural formation. When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening."
Obama had reason to be frightened. Following a Father’s Day speech by Obama at a largely black Chicago church in 2008, Jesse Jackson was heard on a hot mic at a Fox News studio saying, "See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based—I wanna cut his nuts out."
Here Jackson made a sharp slicing motion with his hands and continued, "Barack—he’s talking down to black people—telling n*****s how to behave." In the original, as one might expect, Jackson did not speak in asterisks.
Obama had made the rookie mistake of attributing the absurd crime rate in America’s black neighborhoods to fatherlessness. Jackson, Chicago’s most prominent baby daddy, suggested that a leftward course correction was in order, and Obama cravenly obliged him.
Obama does not talk about Jackson’s comments in his memoir, A Promised Land. That’s a shame. Team Obama’s behind-the-scenes response to the Jackson threat might have enticed even a Republican or two to buy the book. What seems clear, though, is that Jesse Jackson’s very authenticity scared Obama. When Jackson ran for president in 1988, no one questioned his birthplace or his roots or his eligibility. 
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