By Steve Sailer
11/09/2010
With the President visiting his old home, Indonesia, it’s worth noting that one of the funnier themes in Dreams from My Father, (granted, I’m using "funny" pretty relativistically here) is how little attention Obama pays to Asians in his book’s black-white conceptual framework, despite having lived amidst many Asians in Hawaii, Indonesia, Hawaii, Occidental and Columbia. If they're Muslim Asians, like his friends in college, he’s for them, but otherwise, he barely notices them. In Dreams, Obama’s attitude toward people who aren’t black or white is much like the Rev. Lovejoy’s attitude on The Simpsons towards people who aren’t Christian or Jewish:
Rev. Lovejoy: No, Homer, God didn’t burn your house down, but he was working in the hearts of your friends, be they [points to Ned Flanders] Christian, [points to Krusty the Klown] Jew, or [glances at Apu with lack of interest] … miscellaneous.
Apu: Hindu. There are seven hundred million of us.
Rev. Lovejoy: Aww, that’s super.
In Dreams, Obama’s feelings toward non-Muslim Asians are like those of a New York Yankees-obsessed Boston Red Sox fan regarding the Milwaukee Brewers: "Which league are they in these days?"
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