I share Tom Roeser’s skepticism about Mrs. O. as convention speaker:
[I]t will take formidable image-making cosmetology . . . She has done almost irreparable harm to herself by allowing her words to make her a symbol of black grievance and anti-whitey figure… when she has been a remarkably coddled black woman at that.
Imagine someone who got to Princeton not through academic excellence but through other means who lamented that she felt alone and discriminated against there. Her [undergraduate] thesis . . . smacks of hot grievance.
Or someone who graduates from . . . Harvard Law school who continues the grievance until when her husband was winning primaries… while she was in her 40s… announced that for the first time she was felt proud to be an American.
Who earned $300,000 from the University of Chicago based on her connection with [superlatively well-connected] Valerie Jarrett and who still has the temerity to tell young black women that [they] should forego . . . big bucks [and instead choose careers of] community service where they would earn far less . . .
Will she help him with the undecided? That is the question.
Blithe Spirit 