Personal responsibility is not racist, and Barack Obama is no race traitor for endorsing it

By Tom Rogan

Published February 25, 2019 7:15pm ET

Writing for the New York Times on Saturday, Harvard Law graduate Derecka Purnell derided former President Barack Obama as a race betrayer. Obama’s challenging of young black men to take more responsibility for their own better lives, Purnell says, makes “clear Mr. Obama’s chains still bind him.”

Purnell’s implication: By speaking on race outside of a priority focus on victimhood, Obama is a slave to racism.