"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."
"I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my
mother's race."
"There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."
"It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."
"I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. 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."
I don't know about you, but the kind of "change" any militant bigot is working toward is absolutely NOT the kind of change in which I'm interested be that bigot black or white.
[Thanks, Paul, for sending me a bit of enlightenment.]
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp
After reading the Snopes piece, I won't bother to provide any justification for publishing those snippets of his writings. It seems to me that, for the most part, even taken somewhat out of the original context, the intent of the snippets remains pretty much *in context* for me.
I do love how informed and willing to share insights that recent commenters to this blog have been. I hope you'll stop in more often!
No, I'm not voting for him but at least I can disagree with him honestly.