III: Foundation-Funded Racism: Jeremiah Wright and Michelle 115Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn the Weatherman terrorist bombers and butchers, Tony Rezko and
Auchi the gangsters, Michelle Obama the fascist ideologue, and most of all of Obama’s own secret
persona as the Marx-Fanon-Rousseau anthropologist and theoretician of bitterness. This was a
crushing, intolerable, unsustainable burden for any Democratic candidate who wanted to win an
election anywhere other than Berkeley, Big Sur, Jackson Hole, Hyde Park, the Upper West Side, or
Takoma Park.
MICHELLE ROBINSON, QUOTA QUEEN AND ETERNAL VICTIM
Obama’s future wife Michelle now enters our narrative as Michelle Robinson. She was born into
what she always claims was a working-class family of modest means from the South Side of
Chicago in 1964. She graduated from Whitney Young High School in Chicago in 1981 and majored
in sociology at Princeton University, graduating cum laude with the Class of 1985. She received her
Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1988.
Michelle needs very much for the public to believe that she came from a very humble
background. Why should this be so? It is because Michelle’s stance is metaphysically that of the
eternal victim. Part of this pose must be related to bad conscience, assuming that she has a
conscience. She has been the recipient of privileged treatment. She constantly repeats that her
Scholastic Aptitude Test scores were not good enough to get into Princeton. But she was admitted,
with a scholarship. The only explanation is that she benefited from a preferential racial quota.
Michelle is thus in reality what Lani Guinier was called in the press 15 years ago: she is a Quota
Queen. She then went to Harvard Law School. In the meantime, the black underclass has been left
to its own devices in festering inner-city ghettos. How does this brutal class reality impact the
mentality of someone like Michelle? She needs to reject class, and embrace race with a vengeance.
Above all, she must assume the pose of a victim, of a person with an overwhelming grievance. This
sense of victimhood is an indispensable component in the mentality of fascism. The Italians and
Germans of the 1920s and 1930s felt that they had been treated very badly, humiliated, betrayed,
stabbed in the back, and the fruits of their sacrifices mutilated. Michelle Obama has this basic
prerequisite to be a fascist ideologue; as we will see, she has realized that potential.
Michelle Obama’s illusory account of a grim and disadvantaged youth on the edge of poverty
has not withstood examination. The distinguished University of Pennsylvania political scientist
Adolph Reed has pointed out the essential inaccuracy of what has been alleged about Michelle by
her backers. Reed observes:
The Obama campaign has even put out a misleading bio of Michelle Obama, representing her as
having grown up in poverty on the South Side, when, in fact, her parents were city workers, and
her father was a Daley machine precinct captain. This fabrication, along with those
embroideries of the candidate’s own biography, may be standard fare, the typical log cabin
narrative. However, in Obama’s case, the license taken not only underscores Obama’s more
complex relationship to insider politics in Daley’s Chicago; it also underscores how much this
campaign depends on selling an image rather than substance. (Adolph Reed, “Obama No,” The
Progressive, May 17, 2008)NEWTON MINOW OF SIDLEY, AUSTIN, FRIEND OF BARKY
Barry encountered Michelle for the first time thanks to the efforts a top establishment fixer, the
venerable Newton Minow, who still wraps himself in the banner of Camelot. Minow has been one