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Originally Posted by j_cat
Actually he is pretty white, in more ways than one. Makes the racist overtones of some of his opponents all the more hilarious.
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He gets a free pass though right?
'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
[SOURCE: From "From Dreams of My Father" by Barack Hussein Obama, page-15]
That hate hadn’t gone away,' he wrote, 'blaming' white people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.'
[SOURCE: From "From Dreams of My Father" by Barack Hussein Obama]
'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white . . .
[SOURCE: From "From Dreams of My Father" by Barack Hussein Obama]
'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.' While in college, Obama wrote (he) disapproved of what he called other "half-breeds” who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks.
[SOURCE: From "From Dreams of My Father" by Barack Hussein Obama, pages-99-100]
"Yes, I'd seen weakness in other men -- Gramps and his disappointments, Lolo and his compromise. But these men had become object lessons for me, men I might ... never emulate, white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own.
[SOURCE: From "From Dreams of My Father" by Barack Hussein Obama, page 220]
It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
And if later I saw that the black men I knew -- Frank or Ray or Will or Rafiq -- [Black Radicals] fell short of such lofty standards; if I had learned to respect these men for the struggles they went through, recognizing them as my own -- my father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval.
'You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!' "
[SOURCE: From "From Dreams of My Father" by Barack Hussein Obama, page 220]
From Dreams of My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”. Barack Hussein Obama
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “The emotion between the races could never be pure, even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race (WHITE) would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.” Barack Hussein Obama
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