This was a book written by Barack Obama. His reasoning behind writing the book is still unclear to me, even after reading it and his own statements it in the introduction and prologue. My only summation was that it may give him some street cred with black voters. As I read through the garrulous chapters (of which read as his speeches sound, romantic and enrapturing,) I realized that the only difference between the book and his speeches are that the book has an extreme unabashed theme of racism as oppose to zero substance. Accordring to Obama, whites are the cause of all the blacks poor attitudes, as well as their overall destitute existence on this planet.
The book starts out talking about the life he lived in Hawaii and Indonesia. He hears stories about his absent father and weaves a fantasy tapestry in his mind about his African father while he continually bashed his white grandparents and says little to anything about his single white mother. Obama's grandmother "Toot," is frightened by a black man who harasses her in the wee hours of the morning while waiting for the bus to take her to work. Barack is angered by this because he believes his Grandmother is a "typical white person" and reacting as a racist. I'm sorry, if I am alone waiting for public transportation anywhere at anytime and a man of any race harasses me, I am going to get licensed to start carrying my pistol.
Then Barack Obama goes on to talk about going to college, the very same college that is #1 nationally rated as the most left-winged, liberal university of all time... Occidental College in Los Angeles. He got there on a scholarship only because his racist grandmother (who braved public transportation to her job every morning, while his cool grandfather went to all black bars, to drink and shed is "white guilt") made sure Barack went to the most prestigious prep school in Hawaii.
At one point he makes a statement that President Reagan was historically the worst president of all time. Not Ulysses S. Grant, the notorious drunkard, or any other presidents who allowed slavery to continue uncontested.
Then Obama talks about his time in Chicago and Africa, basically to point out that the whites had brought about all there troubles by taking the "good jobs" away from the minorities and how British colonialism destroyed the true and authentic Africa. Which if history serves me right, Africa was divid up by several European nations. The same nations he paraded around a couples of weeks ago trying to soothe and appease! He also talks about his first meeting with Reverend Wright, and the very first sermon he had ever heard from Rev. Wright called "The Audacity of Hope," which had an IRS agent been sitting in the pew that Sunday they would have immediately return to the office Monday morning and yanked his "church's" tax-exempt status. The same stuff we have seen on the news and of which political commentator Glenn Beck aired full sermons so they would be put into "context" were no different then than until Rev. Wright retired. Rev. Wright never changed, in fact he makes Obama look like the chameleon he truly is.
Obama is constantly talking about his struggles as a "black man" all the while living in Hyde Park in Chicago, of which is a majority (43%) white neighborhood... as oppose to Altgeld Gardens (a project that was founded by the democrat John Peter Altgeld!) where Barack used to work as an organizer and the majority population in a whopping 97% black! One of the highest percentages in the US! Why wouldn't Barack choose to "struggle" with his "brothas and sistas"? Oh I forgot, because his ideas of struggling are things like being punished with babies and paying taxes.
The sheer pomposity of the man never ceases to end. I will be reading his other book: The Audacity of Hope. I will be giving a review and concurrently read Hitler's Mein Kampf and try to compare/contrast the two.
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nHello, just read your review of Barack Obobma's book and I have just a few things to say to you.
First, you do not know what it means to be a black man in America,therfore you should not try to question how any black Man
views this country,or the relationship between Black Men and White People as they see it. Say whatever you want about Reverand Wright, the man fought for this Counrty honorably, and last I checked Glenn Beck never served one second in the military, but is very quick to profess his undying love for America. Which brings me to my second point. The fact that you even listen to or support someone like Beck,says a lot about you and where you get your views, because you are just a little to young, in my opinion, to have any reason to question the intent or motive of why Obama wrote the book in the first place, so you come off sounding like a Beck, O'Reilly,or Limbaugh, who in reality are nothing but media personalities who profit off of people's fear.I just finished reading the book myself and did not find it at all racist and in fact, I think He held back on saying how he really felt about some of the issues he wrote about.
But,that is probably because I can relate to his life a whole lot more than you can. I would also like to tell you that, in reading your review, you don't seem to be an ignorant person, which I find very refreshing, since I have not come across many on the Internet who are not, but try not to be swayed by the hoax that is Glenn Beck and others like him. it is very easy to criticize from the sidelines, but Beck has never been in the game.
@ Collier, I don't think I need to be any particular color to understand the message that was sent in the book that was written for everyone to read, interpret, and digest to better understand "who" this man really is. I have military service under my belt, but does that give me license to bash my own country from a pulpit?
Why are you making your comment about Glenn Beck when clearly this review was about Barak Obama and his book? This says alot about how you are avoiding all the points I brought up after reading this book, on my own time and making up my own mind about it. Contrary to popular ignorant belief, people that listen to Glenn Beck and Rush are capable of independent thought. Those brought up in public schools, however, are not capable of this very important exercise.
What does my age have anything to do with the opinions I have formed? I could understand if I was 17 and wrting this, but I am not. I have military experience(with deployment downrange,) a college education, I am married and have four children... I would say that I have more life experience than most college professors.
I think you and Obama share something in common, and it saddens me as a woman and a Christian, and that is... the color of your skin defines who you are.
Every morning, I don't look at myself in the mirror and see a white woman... I see a tired mother, beloved wife, and sinner who is always in need of the Lord's saving grace.
I don't think you are ignorant either and I am honored that you have read my blog, sometimes I wonder if anyone comes accross it and cares what little ole me thinks! I just hope that people of color can unite with people of "non" color with no emnity and realize that we are humans, who all bleed the same color... red. As a fellow American, I consider you as one of my people, even though you may consider your people as only black people. Whites in general have done more these days to ease integration, but outside forces with agendas want to make sure you don't know that little fact.
I understand my review of the book is biting, but none if it is based in fiction. I have researched all the info and presented it in the best way I know how. You haven't disputed any of them, but simply told me I don't understand, well, your right, I don't understand what it is that you and Barack are complaining about when things in this country have been the best they have ever been for people of color, and have the potential to be even better if you and him would take intitiative and get down on your knees, humble yourself before the Lord and ask Him how He wants you make a difference for the human race.
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