Barack Obama in His Own Words - Part 2 of 3

Barack Obama in His Own Words – Part 2 of 3
cinops be gone Wednesday, September 9, 2008
We continue with excerpts from one of several classic articles in the Sept. 1st issue, 2008 of National Review. It is by Michael Gledhill, pseudonym of the writer based in Washington, D.C. Who is Barack Obama? P. 38

Earlier this year, Michelle Obama made headlines by declaring that her husband’s primary victories were the first time she had ever been “proud of my country.” Michelle’s remark simply echoes the assessment Barack presents in his 442-page autobiography….
Obama is touted as a post-racial statesman who sees beyond the narrow issue of white versus black. The Obama of his autobiography is, to the contrary, obsessed with race: Almost all of Dreams is about race and race conflict.

Obama’s early life is marked by uncertainty and rootlessness. Born in Hawaii, he is abandoned by his black Kenyan father at age two. At six he goes to live in Indonesia with his white mother and Indonesian stepfather. At age ten, he leaves his mother and returns to Hawaii, where he spends the rest of his youth, living mainly with his lower-middle white grandparents and attending an expensive, almost all-white prep school….

A turning point in the narrative occurs when some of his white teenage friends attend an otherwise all-black party with him but feel uncomfortable and ask to leave. Obama is enraged and wants to punch his friends.
He begins to inundate himself in black literature: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and W.E.B. Dubois. Saturated with themes of anger and alienation Obama withdraws into a “smaller and smaller coil of rage.” He suffers a “nightmare vision” of black powerlessness and feels white have maimed blacks with a tragic “self contempt.” Malcolm X becomes his favorite author, although he admits all the talk about “blue-eyed devils and apocalypse” is a bit much….

Today, Candidate Obama presents himself as a multiracial American who is proud of his mixed ancestry and can comfortably draw from both of his white and his black roots. In Dreams, he takes the opposite stance. He deliberately and repeatedly rejects a multiracial identity. For example, attending an expensive private college in California, he meets many young people of mixed and white ancestry who view themselves, not as black, but as multiracial. Obama specifically rejects this option as a sellout. He also rejects integration as a goal because it is “one-way street. The minority is assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around.” …

P.S. Thus far may I share three verifiable truths?
1.) No U.S. immigrant, legal or illegal would ever write a book like Barack’s. We love this country too much. As an American by choice, a retired public school teacher with an M.A. in U.S. history from Pepperdine University, Barack’s book is disturbing and insulting to naturalized immigrant citizens and native Americans.
2,) Barack made choices. He is responsible for his bad choices & judgment. I believe he does not speak for Black Americans and will not be elected President.
3.) There is a cancer with the required readings in the U.S. educational system. The readings are not only anti-American but hateful leftist hogwash.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.