Obama's persona chef found dead near the mansion

Oh, no, his persona!

Where was KILLARY at the time????

He had gone out paddle boarding. I wonder what caused the accident. Heart attack? Drunk and fell off?

Heartburn

What did he see?

Paddling like Schlossberg.

Edgartown? Was a Kennedy station wagon seen in the area?

Was he a soft butch sous chef, darling?

Damn that Hillary Clinton sure gets around.

Was Hunter Biden's laptop found near the body????

Lucky.

Another Larry Sinclair. Sad.

Gawd, I'd be 300 pounds if I had a personal chef. The only thing that's barely keeping me in line is I hate to cook, I'm too lazy to get takeout, and I hate paying tips/delivery fees.

Very sad. RIP.

At least he didn't stay and spend the next four years ordering out Big Macs and Kentucky fried while making celery salad for Melanoma.

You had to drag those subhumans into the discussion, didn't you, r14?

Dreading how the conspiracy theorists are going to exploit the death of this young man.

Shark attack

He was paddleboarding in the large pond behind the estate, there are no sharks there.

Don’t a lot of people do heroin there?

He was hot. RIP

The truth is out there, r16.

People of sub-Saharan African decent should avoid lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans. They have dense bones that cause them to sink in water, whereas people of other phenotypes have bones 'honeycombed' with air pockets making them more buoyant.

It's not that blacks can't swim, they just can't float in order to be able to swim.

When white women breed with black men they don't realize they're degrading their kids' ability to float/swim.

Elites are scandalous

Has anyone asked where the Biden Crime Family was at the time of the drowning?

r23 Weird. My younger brother was on the swim team and swims like a fish. So do most of my cousins. We're Black, of course.

[quote] When white women breed with black men they don't realize they're degrading their kids' ability to float/swim.

Welcome to Datalounge, David Duke!

Memories of Naya Rivera's death. Out on the water and who knows what happened, but they drowned.

I never could get into watersports. I'll stay on the land please.

I see I had the poster at 23 blocked long ago, was curious what nutcase you guys were quoting.

Everybody knows black people cant swim. Very sad.

This guy was cute. Obama needs to call George Clooney in Lake Como ASAP, he’ll know what to do.

Blacks generally don’t like swimming for whatever reason. I heard they have a hard time with the sport and or they don’t want water in their hair.

[quote] they don’t want water in their hair.

That's Black women. And that's only an issue if it's a fresh press n' curl or relaxer. Natural hairstyles? We don't care.

Pathetic Racist Pig sighting at R23

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Pathetic Racist Pig sighting at R23

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Pathetic Racist Pig sighting at R23

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Pathetic Racist Pig sighting at R23

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[quote] People of sub-Saharan African decent

Oh, dear!

Fell out of window, very sad.

R3 BBC?

The BLACK Vince Foster!

[quote] Was Hunter Biden's laptop found near the body????

No, but his jockstrap was.

Chappaquidick Part Two!!!!

Was the sous chef a soft butch?

[quote] I never could get into watersports. I'll stay on the land please.

Oh, you can be into watersports and stay very much on dry land!

photo of R34

Something is cagey about the info.

Does this man have his own home on the Vineyard. Or does he live in or on the Obama property.

I should have used the past tense, at R44.

But why the avoidance of this detail?

The story just broke, more details will come out r44.

People are so impatient these days.

r44 I'll give you the answer you're fishing for. The guy finally found the secret family recipe to Bush's baked beans and he had to go.

[quote] The story just broke, more details will come out

Sure they will.

It's literally on the front page of CNN

Where did the myth about black people not being a belt I swim come from? That’s so weird.

[quote]Blacks generally don’t like swimming for whatever reason. I heard they have a hard time with the sport and or they don’t want water in their hair.

R32 That must be a USA thing. There are a lot of black people at the public pool where I go swimming a couple of times a week and they're having a blast, just like everyone else.

Terrible. Couldn't he swim? Did he hit his head?

The buoyancy and bone density has been clinically tested and it’s true, black people are less buoyant. There are a strange number of articles that try to “debunk the Jim Crow” myth. Better for contact sports though.

It does not result in their inability to swim, if instructed how.

R53 it shouldn't matter if you're not clinically underweight. Fat gives buoyancy too.

At least yours didn't try and lead an armed coup.

Has HiIlary been brought in for questioning?

R57 What an original and clever joke to make!

was he not able to swim? someone reported someone struggling in the water which raises another question. Why didn't they jump in to help him? He was only 100 yards off shore in 8 feet of water.

I can’t see the OP because I have him/her blocked, and I only block right wing trolls, so I’m sure OP posted this with the best intentions. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Sad. Could the man swim? The Sun-Times article states that another paddle boarder saw him struggling in the water after he went in.

There are a great many people who cannot swim. And there is a sizable portion of the black population who cannot because they do not have access to swimming pools.

Counting the minutes until all the rightwing wackos to link this accidental death to the Clintons, Bidens, and that pizzeria in DC.

If you can't swim, then you only do paddle board with a life preserver suitable for your weight.

I can't swim but I don't go near the water either.

I fear for the Kennedy grandson, always paddling around the choppy NYC waters with no preserver. Not cool.

[quote]It's not that blacks can't swim, they just can't float in order to be able to swim.

True dat. They don't even float down here.

R62, even if you can swim, you should not go into the water without a lifeguard or another person accompanying you.

I'm not understanding why this is a big news story.

What am I missing?

This has nothing to do with the former President.

It was obviously an accident.

R66 all too true but a lot of kayakers, paddle boarders and surfers brave it alone. Risky. My brother kayaks in the Hudson alone. I don't approve. But he does wear a vest and he's a great swimmer. Still, the currents in the Hudson are fierce.

R67 He may have still been the Obamas private chef - up to his death. Did I misread? Did he buy a house on the Vineyard yet stop working for the the Obamas? Doubtful he could afford that location. I think he was living or staying at their house, still.

Can we just settle this here and now and move on?

Black people have denser (stronger?) bones.

Black people swim. Many swim great. Many swim not-so-great.

White people have less dense (buoyant?) bones.

White people swim. Many swim great. Many swim not-so-great.

I'd like to thank Bonnie Prince Charlie for pointing out what should be obvious. A larger proportion of African Americans in America never learned how to swim because for generations, they were denied access to public swimming pools. When public swimming pools started to integrate, many of them shut down rather than accommodate African Americans. Generational wealth allowed American white people to buy swimming pools in their new suburban houses, but AAs were again denied that because the generational wealth held by AAs tended to be taken from them or was never accessible. I really hate the myth that AAs don't like to swim.

He panicked, likely had a cord fastened to his foot and got tangled when he fell off, or the wind was blowing him further out.

R71 all of that is true but also hideous boilerplate / generational wealth / just because you memorized / intergenerational systemic racism / that doesn't mean you / generational wealth / have to repeat it / generational wealth / verbatim for the rest of your / intergenerational systemic racism / life.

R73…🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄. What?

R71, you sound unhinged. I'm white. My family had no "generational wealth". OR a swimming pool. OR swimming lessons. OR access to a public pool. You know who did though? My childhood friend Dwight. They had a pool, above ground. His mom was a doctor. They were black.

But the truth likely never stopped you from bloviating your tiresome, fictional stereotypes about "generational wealth", so why would it now? By the way, do you even know what "generational wealth" is, or did you just learn that from one your MotherJones articles and figured it sounded really edgy and counter-culturey? Loon.

Has anyone mentioned the generational wealth angle to this tragedy?

Where was Hillary?

If he had partied with the homeboys in Oak Bluffs, he'd still be alive.

“He was about to rat them all out and took all the secrets with him!”

Oh fuck each and every one of you. Some asshole above is going on and on about how African Americans can't fucking swim, so I tried to put it in perspective. Jesus, some of you are simply unkind assholes. I know what generational wealth is and I know what pure, unadulterated jerkism is too and you R75 can particularly DIAGF. How I could have possibly engendered the kind of "unhinged" nastiness I have no idea.

The issue is that everyone else here knows as well what generational wealth is in the political-economic discourse around race. So you were being notably pedantic with no thought that you were in fact preaching to the converted.

Your message and info is NOT going to reach the racist trolls. Do you know what a troll is and how they operate? I bet you do.

R80, no idea what r75 said, as I have blocked the turd. FF and block, it’s the best thing you can do to flush that turd from DL.

R81 god forbid I ever comment. You're absolutely right. I had no right to say anything. It had already been discussed extensively and I'm just a real dumbass for saying anything. Feel better?

R80 - you still sound unhinged. You're also R82. Troll.

R83 you're very dramatic with few debating skills. You have a right to say something. What you said is true. People rolled their eyes at your repetitive, heavy, and moralizing style. As if we were ignorant.

[quote]R84: you still sound unhinged. You're also [R82]. Troll.

Not according to ignordar. R82 is not the same account as R83/Harkonnen.

Why would you lie about that? It's easily verifiable.

Thanks r86. I’m r82, and definitely not also 83. Poor OP (r75 and other posts I can’t see) is butthurt that more than one poster ignores it.

Have you bitches forgotten about me already?

r75 No one is saying that poor White people didn't/don't exist. The point is that there is an obvious racial disparity with regard to generational wealth overall. No anecdotes, yours or mine, will change that fact. Like I sad upthread, my younger brother was on the swim team and so were some of my cousins. One of my cousins also had a pool in their backyard where we'd go to have pool parties as kids, and we're a Black family.

That said, yes, we have more bone density than Whites. That still didn't stop my brother and cousins from leaving the White boys in the proverbial dust during swim matches. So, it would appear that even with a purported "physiological disadvantage," they still managed to be better than their White peers and win medals. Thus, the less buoyancy theory still doesn't hold water (no pun intended) in those cases. My brother is also a certified lifeguard and swim instructor. Many of his students were adult White males who couldn't float and needed noodles.

Was the water brackish?

Historically, public swimming pools were closed to black people in a lot of the US. I am sure that has something to do with the fact that fewer black people learn to swim as children than do white kids.

Oh for crissakes. Are you really spending your time on, and arguing with, race-baiting trolls? Because everyone else here, who are not trolls, knows that black folks can swim just like any other ethnicity can swim - when they are taught how to do to it.

This historian seems to think so.

Maybe 60, years ago pools in the South were segregated. But not in this man’s lifetime. Why are you assuming he couldn’t swim? Only a foolish person would paddle board without knowing how to swim.

Can you post something articles about slavery in the USA. I just heard about it and you seem to be the expert. We're ignorant white folks here so we need learning. Also tell us about the Jim Crow South. Be our guide. Thank you so much.

So did he encounter peril, was this a medical emergency, what? He wasn't far from shore, it's very sad.

Most of the ponds on MV and Nantucket are brackish in nature, r90. They are obviously salty since they are so near the ocean.

Drugs?

What wildlife lives in the water there? River monsters, gators?

r99 It was a still water pond. So, frogs and ducks.

R100- Thanks, so nothing big to pull him in. If it was from drugs I doubt we will ever know given his close ties with Obama.

[quote] R53 shouldn't matter if you're not clinically underweight. Fat gives buoyancy too.

So does BBC

[quote] If you can't swim, then you only do paddle board with a life preserver suitable for your weight.

Duh, isn’t that just common sense? If you don’t know how to swim, but yet you’re insistent on going paddle boarding, you prepare accordingly, or you don’t go. How come the other paddle boarder didn’t offer to help. That’s just rude.

Oh dear, R58. You sound so sad and bitter...

R103 - it’s true it would have been dumb to paddleboard without a lifejacket if he didn’t know how to swim, but we don’t know anything about his swimming proficiency. There could have been something else going on with him.

About the lack of rescue from the other paddleboarder, though, maybe that person had enough training to know that it’s extremely dangerous to try to rescue a drowning person unless you know exactly what you’re doing, as they will often pull the rescuer down in their panic to get to the surface, resulting in two victims rather than just one. Contacting emergency personel would have been the best course of action.

except with TWO paddle boards on hand and 8 feet of water, it seems worth the effort to pull the guy over the board.

There are videos of him doing laps. He was a decent swimmer.

R105 The "other person"

He probably had a hot ass but he couldn’t live forever

There’s an off color joke - what’s one book you will never find in library? - black families I’ve seen while sailing .

R93 Obviously, history statistically affects who can swim or not in America when the black population was actively kept as slaves and kept from swimming in public pools for generations. That still doesn't explain why the guy drowned though. Paddling in Martha's Vineyard also isn't something that black people typically did or do. The question is only about him because he's an individual: Could he swim? And why the hell did he go paddling alone? Was he habitually paddling alone? Or wasn't he, and someone pushed him? The last option seems at least very possible to me. Anyhow, how gruesome, the poor guy.

And NPR is not a source at this point. If you give them half a year yet, according to them, Marsha P will have invented swimming.

It's quite possible this man's ethnicity has ZERO FUCK TO DO with his accidental death. For crissakes.

[quote]He may have still been the Obamas private chef - up to his death. Did I misread? Did he buy a house on the Vineyard yet stop working for the the Obamas? Doubtful he could afford that location. I think he was living or staying at their house, still.

Being the personal chef of BO would be quite the star on your resume, so maybe he worked for another rich family on MV. Too bad about the guy - it was likely just an accident, but I suppose a variety of circumstances resulted in him becoming overwhelmed & drowning (though if some asshole saw him, why didn't they help him?). Very sad

Curious about R87. I didn't get to see it.

Thank you, R71, for putting it better than I did.

Swimming lessons should be part of physical education in our public school system, but that is far from reality. The reasons are obvious....poor funding and budget cuts.

Harvard at one time had a compulsory swimming test for freshman (it had nothing to do with the Titanic). It's no longer the case. But the test makes sense, and colleges and universities might step up where public primary and secondary schools cannot.

I had swimming lessons from a very early age. It is because I came from a white, upper middle-class family. As more African Americans comprise the middle class, the ability to swim will comprise greater numbers of them.

R68, I live by the ocean and grew up spending summers on a lake. I know a lot of kayakers, surfers, triathletes, and swimmers who go into the water alone. No matter how strong a swimmer you are, stuff happens...cramps, riptides, distress such as heart attacks....they are taking risks with their lives. NEVER swim without a lifeguard or without someone with you.

He tried to escape from the sunken place but the orthodontist who purchased him caught and wounded him.

r111, HE COULD SWIM! There are videos of him swimming laps. His drowning has zero to do with slavery. JFC.

What R71 said.

My father was a champion swimmer in the '70s and saw it firsthand. Out of 30 guys on his swim team in a racially diverse area, one or two were black.

Black fathers and mothers never learned to swim because they were excluded from facilities due to racism, so that passed down to their children, who passed it down to their children. And so it goes. Institutionalized racism doesn't just magically clear up in a generation because we'd like it to.

R118. I don’t know. I think it may be cultural in ways not tied to racism. At least not Jim Crow racism How do you explain so many Caribbean blacks who don’t know how to swim. I mean it’s probably tied to slavery way back when they brainwashed all the slaves and told them, “ “you niggers better not try to swim in dat watah”.

Twitter suspended Dom Lucre over this.

How about Africans? Do they swim or not?

Caribbean people probably don’t swim because there’s a lot of sharks in their water

R117 Thanks for the clarification. Do you also know what makes them so sure there was no foul play involved?

Sometimes people just drown.

Rumors say Tafari Campbell told friends he hated Michelle and that she made him miserable. - Now, I have zero doubt this is complete bullshit, but the idea makes me LOL because it would make an excellent, campy American Horror Story.. Powerful former first lady has ongoing feud with "beloved" White House chef who comes to work for her and former president.. Camp and dark hilarity ensue as both of them try to off the other. And of course, Michelle wins! LOL!

Like clockwork, QAnon jumps in with murder accusations:

Thanks, Obama.

r125 Those comments are disgusting. Can't believe there are sincerely people still riding the "Michelle Obama is actually a man" 'Tard Express. Meanwhile, their idle married a whole hooker.

^*Idol

Interestingly enough, this is the SECOND of the Obamas' personal chefs who drowns in mysterious circumstances, and when Tafari Campbell was found, there were signs of force blunt trauma to his head - he didn't drown and George Galloway says it best: they are investigating how he drowned in his employers' garden, even though there are secret service agents and cameras all over the Obamas' compound? This is suspicious at best.

Hon he drowned in a 890 acre body of water over 100 ft from any shore line r130. "His employers garden" Jesus Christ, the Obama's do not own all of Martha's Vineyard.

Where exactly should cameras be out on a large body of water?

R130 WAIT A MINUTE

This is the 2nd personal chefs of Obama to die under macabre circumstances? Something ain’t right. They must be on their Clinton shit. These chefs need to stop running their mouths. RIP.

R130, yeah, you figured it out. Michelle and the cook were having an affair and Barack clocked him and threw him into the pond. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

The other way around. The chef and Barack were on the downlow so Michelle offed him.

R133 Probably less blood. Smart man.

No what really happen was Valerie Jarrett got angry about being excluded from the steamy orgy so offed this guy in a jealous rage.

Like I wrote upthread, another Larry Sinclair. Dead men tell no tales.

I wish my persona had a chef

Larry Sinclair is looney tunes, r137. You might as well bring up pizzagate too.

Supposedly, Tafari Campbell drowned because couldn't swim, but there is video evidence that he was a good swimmer. Also, Obama has been photographed wearing bandages and displaying a black eye just a few days after his long time friend and employee drowned within his estate, in mysterious circumstances - and let's not forget that this is the SECOND chef under the Obamas' employ, who meets the same fate. I will bring more information soon.

[quote]I will bring more information soon.

Oh, we're sure you will, lol.

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I love Obama’s tan. Reminds me of myself. Much younger and better looking of course but people don’t believe how dark I can get in the summer until they see it. I’m literally dark mocha in the summer and light brown/lightskin in winter.

This can only be the work of the Biden Crime Family and Nancy Pelosi!!! They kill people all the time!

My logic is these people are way too smart to cover up a murder and then appear in public with a bruised face and bandages. So likely it has nothing to do with this tragic accident.

If you add up all the gay/suspected nelly men in Obama’s sphere who’ve died under mysterious circumstances it makes you wonder why this keeps happening.

R146 This man was married and doesn’t appear nellie.

Have we checked Michelle's whereabouts? The chef could have been preparing something unhealthy.

The coverup continues.

The death of Barack Obama's personal chef while paddleboarding in Martha's Vineyard has been ruled an accident, a state official has said.

Tafari Campbell, 45, visited the resort island in late July and was on Edgartown Great Pond near the former president's summer home.

He was seen going under the water, sparking a two-day search for his body.

Timothy McGuirk, from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, said on Tuesday the cause of death was drowning and an accident.

But the update has left numerous unanswered questions, not least surrounding the identity of the female paddleboarder who was with him and the identity of the 911 caller from the Obamas' home and what they said.

McGuirk also said that Massachusetts does not release autopsy results to the public - the accident ruling was all that was released by the authorities on Tuesday night.

R149 Hmmmm, many unanswered questions.

yikes