In a recent interview with author David Garrow, an alleged biographer of former United States President Barack Obama has revealed some concerning attitudes expressed in love letters penned to his then-girlfriends.
Garrow claims that he was told by Obama’s then-girlfriend, Alex McNear, that a letter written by the former President contained references to homoerotic fantasies.
It is reported that the said letter was sold and ended up in Emory University archives but information about this specific paragraph was not mentioned in any press release from Emory.
Garrow asked a friend Harvey Klehr to try and find an uncensored version of this letter but it appears they have been unsuccessful thus far.
Additionally, Garrow also claimed that another girlfriend of Obama’s at the time—Genevieve Cook—had kept a journal detailing their relationship although no further information was provided about what had been recorded there.
Finally, it appears as though there were love letters exchanged between Obama and yet another girlfriend named Sheila Miyoshi Jager however, these letters remain under wraps for now according to Garrow who even speculated that they may be burned before ever seeing the light of day.
Garrow postulated that Barack Obama’s romantic relationships may provide insight into his attitude towards certain issues such as American exceptionalism and Israel relations.
However, he did make clear that “I have never seen any evidence that Barack Obama has the slightest personal animus toward Jews as individuals.”
He noted some possible correlations between his breakup with Jager and views on Jewish particularity which may suggest underlying anti-semitism: “But from his denial of American exceptionalism, and his sourness toward Israel, going all the way back to Sheila Miyoshi Jager’s account of their breakup.”
He continued by saying “there does seem to be an awareness of the underlying problem posed to his politics by Jews—that is, the problem posed by Jewish group survival and their continuing insistence on Jewish historical particularity.”
It is worth noting here too that Jager’s grandparents were members of Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation whose heroic efforts earned them recognition from Yad Vashem as Righteous Among Nations which could suggest why she might not misremember incidents regarding race or antisemitism differently than how it actually occurred.
