Obama's emotional separatism.

Steve Sailer, almost a year ago, picked up on the confusion in Obama:

A racial group is a large extended family, and Obama’s book is primarily about his rejection of his supportive white maternal extended family in favor of his unknown black paternal extended family.

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. . . And yet, [despite liberal white grandparents, multiracial Hawaii, superb private school education] he found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against his mother’s race.

Even his celebrated acceptance of Christianity in his mid-20s turns out to be an affirmation of African-American emotional separatism.

"Obama’s Identity Crisis." By Steve Sailer, The American Conservative, 3/26/07.