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Plus he says blacks are angry for the same reason Jews should be angry. 
Probably because they were men. Why would anyone care about the girlfriends of a guy who wasn't even in politics yet when it was published?
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/06/young-barack-obama-in-love-david-maraniss
One night I took her to see a new play by a black playwright. It was a very angry play, but very funny. Typical black American humor. The audience was mostly black, and everybody was laughing and clapping and hollering like they were in church. After the play was over, my friend started talking about why black people were so angry all the time. I said it was a matter of remembering—nobody asks why Jews remember the Holocaust, I think I said—and she said that’s different, and I said it wasn’t, and she said that anger was just a dead end. We had a big fight, right in front of the theater. When we got back to the car she started crying. She couldn’t be black, she said. She would if she could, but she couldn’t. She could only be herself, and wasn’t that enough.
None of this happened with Genevieve. She remembered going to the theater only once with Barack, and it was not to see a work by a black playwright. When asked about this decades later, during a White House interview, Obama acknowledged that the scene did not happen with Genevieve. “It is an incident that happened,” he said. But not with her. He would not be more specific, but the likelihood is that it happened later, when he lived in Chicago. “That was not her,” he said. “That was an example of compression I was very sensitive in my book not to write about my girlfriends, partly out of respect for them.
Probably because they were men. Why would anyone care about the girlfriends of a guy who wasn't even in politics yet when it was published?
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/06/young-barack-obama-in-love-david-maraniss