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[Make sure to order Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
In America, black antisemitism has its capital in southside Chicago, and its high priest is the sinister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not in the same league as Farrakhan, but he is no friend either to white people or to Jews, as both his church sermons and his comments to the media blaming Jews for preventing him from seeing Obama, make clear. Obama has managed until now to escape the charge of antisemitism, having been careful as a presidential candidate to distance himself from the controversial Rev.Wright. But one of Obama’s former girlfriends, Sheila Miyoshi (married name Jager), suggests that he was not bothered by black antisemitism. More on this story can be found here: “The Obama Factor: A Q&A with historian David Garrow,” by David Samuels, Tablet, August 2, 2023:
There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, Sheila Miyoshi Jager. In Dreams, Obama describes a passionate disagreement following a play by African American playwright August Wilson, in which the young protagonist defends his incipient embrace of Black racial consciousness against his girlfriend’s white-identified liberal universalism. As readers, we know that the stakes of this decision would become more than simply personal: The Black American man that Obama wills into being in this scene would go on to marry a Black woman from the South Side of Chicago named Michelle Robinson and, after a meteoric rise, win election as the first Black president of the United States.
Yet what Garrow documented, after tracking down and interviewing Sheila Miyoshi Jager, was an explosive fight over a very different subject. In Jager’s telling, the quarrel that ended the couple’s relationship was not about Obama’s self-identification as a Black man. And the impetus was not a play about the American Black experience, but an exhibit at Chicago’s Spertus Institute about the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann.
At the time that Obama and Sheila visited the Spertus Institute, Chicago politics was being roiled by a Black mayoral aide named Steve Cokely who, in a series of lectures organized by Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, accused Jewish doctors in Chicago of infecting Black babies with AIDS as part of a genocidal plot against African Americans. The episode highlighted a deep rift within the city’s power echelons, with some prominent Black officials supporting Cokely and others calling for his firing.
In Jager’s recollection, what set off the quarrel that precipitated the end of the couple’s relationship was Obama’s stubborn refusal, after seeing the exhibit, and in the swirl of this Cokely affair, to condemn Black racism. While acknowledging that Obama’s embrace of a Black identity had created some degree of distance between the couple, she insisted that what upset her that day was Obama’s inability to condemn Cokely’s comments. It was not Obama’s Blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn antisemitism.
No doubt, Obama’s evolving race-based self-consciousness did distance him from Jager; in the end, the couple broke up. Yet it is revealing to read Obama’s account of the breakup in Dreams against the very different account that Jager offers. In Obama’s account, he was the particularist, embracing a personal meaning for the Black experience that Jager, the universalist, refused to grant. In Jager’s account, the poles of the argument are nearly, but not quite, reversed: It is Obama who appears to minimize Jewish anxiety about blood libels coming from the Black community. His particularism mattered; hers didn’t. While Obama defined himself as a realist or pragmatist, the episode reads like a textbook evasion of moral responsibility.
I believe Sheila Miyoshi Jager’s account; she has nothing to gain by such a story, while the calculating Obama, determined to leave her because he was sure that as a white woman, she would be a political liability as his wife, made sure in his own memoir, Dreams of My Father, to leave out the Cokely episode, including his failure to condemn Cokely for his charge that “Jewish doctors” were deliberately committing “genocide” on “black babies.” This variant on the medieval blood libel about Jews killing Christian children so as to use their blood in making matzos, was a charge so explosive that it could well have resulted in murderous attacks by credulous African-Americans on Jewish doctors. When Sheila Miyoshi tried to convince Obama to denounce Cokely, he refused. He had decided that if he condemned Cokely, he would lose more support among black antisemites than he would gain in Jewish support. Clearly, Obama did not share the anguish of Jews at such charges, an updated version of the medieval blood libels. He was perfectly willing to pass over in silence Cokely’s disgusting and absurd charge of “genocide” by “Jewish doctors” of “black babies.” Sheila Miyoshi was appalled at Obama’s indecent political calculus, and told David Garrow so; that, she said, was her reason for the breakup. Obama, ever the calculating arriviste, determined to rise high, felt no need to reassure Jews that he stood with them. Instead, his silence about Steve Cokely’s charge suggested he had no interest in condemning even the worst antisemitic charges if to do so might hurt him with a black electorate that was also predominantly antisemitic.
Obama’s betrayal of a longstanding American commitment to veto all anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council, when instead of a veto he had Samantha Power abstain from voting on UN Security Council Resolution 2334, that declared Israeli settlements in the West Bank, where a half-million Israelis lived, to constitute a violation of international law, was bad. An American veto would have killed the resolution. With the Americans not vetoing it, UNSC 2334 passed by a vote of 14-0. But Obama had done worse than that, when as a thrusting young Chicago politician he refused to do the right thing; he never denounced Steve Cokely for his extreme antisemitism, reflected in his charge that “Jewish doctors” practiced “genocide” on “black babies.” Obama’s tolerance of the worst kind of antisemitism was then, and remains, a form of antisemitism.
Obama does not merely tolerate antisemitism (from “people of color” “progressives” and of course followers of “The Relgion of Peace”, especially “Palestinians”). He fully embraces such antisemitism and no doubt would like to see Israel “dismantled” (it takes no imagination to figure out how many, or rather how FEW Israeli Jews would be left alive after that “dismantling”). If Israel were reduced to a cinder by an Iranian nuclear attack, the celebratory dancing in the streets in Oslo, Stockholm, Ann Arbor Cambridge and Berkeley would surely be accompanied by that smug smirk on Obama’s face.
EVERYTHING about 0bama is calculated and fake!
I don’t believe Sheila Miyoshi ever even existed. He had other “girlfriends” who turned out to be fictional, so why should I?
Because David Garrow found and interviewed her.
Because David Garrow interviewed her for the book referenced in the above article.
He had a brief fling with Larry Sinclair involving coke & anther form of “blow”.
He only wrote about the cocaine use in his book.
(The 1st draft was written by Bill Ayers, as B. Hussein lacks focus or intelligence for such trivial things.)
It’s the same Islamic Republic of Iran that promises to visit a second Holocaust upon the Jews who Obama chose to replace the U. S. as hegemon in the Middle East. Obviously, this has less to do with what is best for the people of the Middle East than Obama’s feelings about the Jews. In a nutshell he’s a dog.
Please, use another term. Dogs have more integrity.
Of course Obama will be anti-israel. he is after all a Muslim. And why is a person who has both black and white ancestry always described as ‘black?’ Why does their blackness always take priority over their whiteness?
Because both black supremacists and white supemacists agree with the old “one drop of [balck] blood” rule. Angela Davis, the descendant of white puritans from the Mayflower and white southern plantation and slave owners, is black. It helps of course that she (like Obama) is a Marxist Leninist.
And Iran is still a member of the United Nations here we have the chance to pull out of the UN totally
A BIG Amen to pulling out of the UN … ASAP!!
Anti-Semite Rev. Jeremiah Wright was Obama’s pastor for twenty years.
He married the Obama’s and baptized their two daughters. In all that
time listening to Wright’s anti-White, anti-Jewish ranting sermons- why
didn’t he leave that particular church and go elsewhere? Says it all about
where Obama stands regarding the Jews – even though he voiced
outrage at Wright’s remarks when he ran for President and couldn’t
distance himself far enough from his erstwhile pastor.
Mr. Fitzgerald says he believes Sheila Miyoshi Jager’s account of Obama’s
refusal to condemn Cokely’s blatant anti-Semitism. Based on Obama’s
actual past relationship with Jeremiah Wright, so do I.
Well-said, Annie45.
Obama listened to and inbibed Wright’s anti Semitic and and anti American sermons for years and stopped only when it was politically inconvenient He was never a supporter of Israel but was an appeaser of terror from the onset
That’d explain why the jug-eared bitch sent Iran billion$ in cash via a cargo plane.
The little punk is pro-jihadist, because he’s an anti-Christian atheist . . . just like his beloved mentor, Saul Alinsky.
The irony is that Bathhouse Barry would be hurled off a roof or force to submit to sex reassignment in Iran. Although he make actually like the second alternative.
I know where you’re coming from, I see the same thing in my own family, up to and including lame rationalizations for Biden’s dementia, criminality, and blatant attempts to destabilize Netanyahu’s government. I’ve asked them what they do if it were Salvador Allende, Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Jacobo Arbenz or Nicolas Maduro he was trying to destabilize.
Most people change from left to right after being “mugged by reality”. I just hope the mugging isn’t too brutal.
I enjoy Frontpage Mag-both the articles and comments. However, for whatever reason I am unable to give a “thumbs-up”, nor a “thumbs-down”…ever. It’s frustrating. Does anyone else have this issue?
Obama is the devil. Like any other muslim he’s an expert in lying, manipulation and deception.
His main goal is destruction of America from within. He easily fooled the leftists by pretending to be one of them.
As a psychopath Hussein Obama absolutely hates whoever doesn’t agree with him. He started his own army by glorifying the criminals and thugs, so they would do the destruction on his behalf against whoever is marked as racist. False accusations for that matter.
His destructive and hateful policy worked, millions of good people have been cancelled because of the tugs going after them with false accusations. Trump is the latest example.
Biden is Obama’s slave, this admin is Obama 3.0. All of destructive policies of Obama are on steroids now. Nobody can blame him or the criminal/terrorist blacks who make more than half of black population. The devil is hiding behind Biden’s mask.
BLACKS TEND TO HATE PERIOD! THEY HATE WHITES, GAYS, JEWS, ASIANS AND THEN GO OUT ON WEEKENDS AND SHOOT EACH OTHER!
“There is a deep racist and anti-Semitic disease in the leadership of the Democrats. As Senator Cory Booker brings his hatred for the Jewish State to the Senate, he should be asked whether he agrees with his hero, “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist we must take a lesson from Hitler”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
Obama spent 20 years in the Trinity Church of Jeremiah Wright, an anti-Semite and bigot. Wright and Obama were associates of Black nationalist, racist, and anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, who recently referred to Jews as “termites.” Farrakhan has spoken of his admiration of Hitler for killing millions of Jews (as has Hamas).
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president for eight long years.” MATTHEW VADUM
Lots of cash was sent to Iran on pallets under the Obama administration, enhancing their nuclear program and terrorist groups., and Unranium under Clinton. He and Jeremiah Wright never liked America or Israel. America is like Israel, somehow the wisdom escapes people to vote for supporters, not for those who dislike us. Guess we will learn the hard way with many mistakes. “America’s chickens have come home to roost.”
Lots of cash was sent to Iran on pallets under the Obama administration, enhancing their nuclear program and terrorist groups., and Uranium under Clinton. He and Jeremiah Wright never liked America or Israel. America is like Israel, somehow the wisdom escapes people to vote for supporters, not for those who dislike us. Guess we will learn the hard way with many mistakes. “America’s chickens have come home to roost.”
About the photo, not the article: When I see this photo, it reminds me of what a punk Obama was/is. The first time one of my students did this, we went outside the room, had a chat. If it happened again, we did more than chat. And still, this man is pulling the strings in the White House.