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Dreams from my Father
| Thu, 10-30-2008 - 10:41am |
Has anyone read this book by Obama? I've only read excepts. And I'm
| Thu, 10-30-2008 - 10:41am |
Has anyone read this book by Obama? I've only read excepts. And I'm
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From the book I definitely did not get the impression that he did not like white people.
Please don't get sarcastic.
Please, take your time and read the book. I am in no way being impatient. I only asked the question b/c you
Chrissy
mom to Aidan 8/21/03
Grayson Blaine 12/30/07
Interesting that you brought up the Reverand Wright thing.
Here is a snipet of what he wrote in 2004 about his mother, after the book had been on the market for 10 years and was being republished due to interest in him from his senate race:
"The exception is my mother, whom we lost, with a brutal swiftness, to cancer a few months after this book was published.
She had spent the previous ten years doing what she loved. She traveled the world, working in the distant villages of Asia and Africa, helping women buy a sewing machine or a milk cow or an education that might give them a foothold in the world’s economy. She gathered friends from high and low, took long walks, stared at the moon, and foraged through the local markets of Delhi or Marrakesh for some trifle, a scarf or stone carving that would make her laugh or please the eye. She wrote reports, read novels, pestered her children, and dreamed of grandchildren.
We saw each other frequently, our bond unbroken. During the writing of this book, she would read the drafts, correcting stories that I had misunderstood, careful not to comment on my characterizations of her but quick to explain or defend the less flattering aspects of my father’s character. She managed her illness with grace and good humor, and she helped my sister and me push on with our lives, despite our dread, our denials, our sudden constrictions of the heart.
I think sometimes that had I known she would not survive her illness, I might have written a different book -- less a meditation on the absent parent, more a celebration of the one who was the single constant in my life. In my daughters I see her every day, her joy, her capacity for wonder. I won’t try to describe how deeply I mourn her passing still. I know that she was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known, and that what is best in me I owe to her."
The whole thing is here:
His mother was white.
I haven't read his books, but I have to express my amazement at how forgiving Obama is.
I am sorry if I misinterpreted your tone.
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