Obama A Promised Land (Image: Penguin Random House)
Former President Barack Obama discusses how he feels that the
racist rhetoric that current and outgoing President Donald Trump
has been spewing before and since he was elected in 2016, was due
to Obama occupying the highest office in the land in a book that is
being released this month.
According to CNN, Obama states that winning the presidency to
become the first Black president of the United States back in 2008
fueled the flames of racial divisiveness within the ranks of
Republican politicians. The direction and hatred toward him helped
fuel the Republicans’ obstructionism and created a path for Trump
to gain the nomination and then the presidency.
In his latest tome titled A Promised Land, which is slated to be
released on November 17, Obama writes, “It was as if my very
presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a
sense that the natural order had been disrupted. Which is exactly
what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions
that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an
illegitimate president. For millions of Americans spooked by a
Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their
racial anxiety.”
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The former president opens up about so much more in his book,
including that there was tension in his marriage to Michelle while
he was in office, reports E Online.
“It was as if, confined as we were within the walls of the White
House, all her previous sources of frustration became more
concentrated, more vivid, whether it was my round the clock
absorption with work, or the way politics exposed our family to
scrutiny and attacks, or the tendency of even friends and family
members to treat her role as secondary in importance.”