Obama's Thoughts on Race...

The following exerpts came directly from Barack Obama... (and just imagine this man could be elected President of the United States!)

From Dreams of My Father:
'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.'


From Dreams of My Father:
'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'


From Dreams of My Father:
'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'


From Dreams of My Father:
'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'


From Dreams of My Father:
'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.'

From Audacity of Hope:

'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'