Barack Obama in His Own Words - Part 3 of 3

Barack Obama in His Own Words - Part 3 of 3
cinops be gone Thursday, September 11, 2008

Final excerpts from National Review, Sept. 1st issue, Who is Barack Obama?
“Obama comes to define and identify himself as a black man…. The dozens of cultural and historic figures appearing throughout Dreams are almost all black. (White author Joseph Conrad makes a token appearance as a deranged racist.) Obama identifies his principle role models: Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, and W.E.B. Dubois. He states that while he might love his white grandfather and Indonesian stepfather, he could “never emulate” them because of the racial difference: They were “white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own.” p. 39

Obama is fascinated by his black ancestry. When he journeys to Kenya he has a deep sense of joy and belonging – he feels he has very little interest in his white ancestors or in history of white America. He views U.S. history simply as a melodrama in which whites crush blacks (although class oppression and brutality against other minorities provide secondary plotlines.) …

Dreams does present one exception to Obama’s black exclusiveness. As Obama studies radical Marxist-Leninist literature (Franz Fanon, neocolonialism, etc.), he comes to see himself as the champion not just of blacks but of the downtrodden of all races. …

Generally, Obama sees an unbridgeable gulf between races: “The other race would always remain just that: alien and apart.” …

As a youth, Obama is shocked when a black mentor tells him that “black people have reason to hate,” but later comes to accept this view….

Candidate Obama declared that he was shocked when he heard Rev. Jeremiah’s Wright’s outrageous remarks about American society….

But in the autobiography, Wright rants are in plain view. It is obvious that Obama is drawn to Wright’s ministry not in ignorance, but precisely because of the Reverend’s politics. In Dreams, Wright asserts: “Life’s not safe for a black man in the country, Barack. Never has been. Probably never will be.” …

Black well-being therefore requires that the blame for black behavior always be placed in historic context – that is, shifted to whites. If 69 percent of black children are born out of wedlock, if blacks kill blacks, if black-run schools don’t teach, it is the white man’s fault. Alternative explanations will only relieve white guilt while raising black self-doubt. p. 40

Self-Portrait of the Author:

Dreams from My Father reveals Barack Obama as a self-constructed, racially obsessed man who regards most whites as oppressors. It is the work of a clever but shallow thinker who confuses ideological cliché for insight – a man who sees U.S. history as a narrow, bitter tale of race and class victimization. The Barack Obama presented in these pages is not electable to national office. No wonder that Obama, aided by a compliant media, has created a new self for public view, one that Obama of Dreams wouldn’t recognize and probably would disdain.”

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.