Powered by Hate: Racist Content from Dreams from My Father
by Bill Levinson
Originally published in the American Thinker
Numerous urban legends circulated about the content of Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father during the 2008 election. The concept of falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus (false in one thing, false in all) means that people who read enough proven lies about the book will then not believe the truth. It is therefore important to circulate the truth as widely as possible, and with page numbers for easy verification.
The following quotes are from the paperback edition from Three Rivers Press (New York), ISBN 978-1-4000-8277-3. The content is also verifiable from Google Books. It is important to state up front, and reiterate later, that the racist content of Dreams from My Father is 100 percent consistent with Mr. Obama’s open association with hate-mongers like Jeremiah Wright and Al Sharpton.
Pages 99-101 of the book are particularly informative because Barack Obama talks very explicitly of his racial identity politics. He identifies very clearly as an African-American as opposed to a melting pot American, which makes him totally unqualified to be president for Americans of all races and ethnicities. He begins by talking about “problems” with a classmate of multiracial (Caucasian, Native American, and African-American) ancestry, and then talks about showing one’s loyalty to “the black masses.”
- That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounded real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people. … To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
… But this strategy alone couldn’t provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.
- Tim was not a conscious brother. Tim wore argyle sweaters and pressed jeans and talked like Beaver Cleaver. He planned to major in business. His white girlfriend was probably waiting for him up in his room, listening to country music.
- [Questions as to the adequacy of Black identity politics that suppressed anger toward white people, or that "failed to elevate race loyalty above all else"] contradicted the morality my mother had taught me, a morality of subtle distinctions-between individuals of goodwill and those who wished me ill, between active malice and ignorance or indifference. … Desperate times called for desperate measures, and for many blacks, times were chronically desperate. If nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.
If nationalism could deliver. As it turned out, questions of effectiveness, and not sentiment, caused most of my quarrels with Rafiq.
i definitely agree that this bastard IS powered by hate in all he says and does (except when it comes to his musloid brethren)
BUT
he did not write the book.
i strongly recommend that everybody read jack cashill’s ‘deconstructing obama’.
BUT he is not African American, he is African.
He did not grow up in African american culture.
the phoenix Said:
He signed his name to it, so he may as well have written it.
By the grace of HaShem, he is soon to be irrelevant!
I find it puzzling why do people who know that they have an enemy that hates them fail to return in kind to harm that enemy as much as possible.
Reporting that someone or group hates us is not quite enough to address that mortal danger. Reporting and analyzing acts of bestial murder originated on that hate is neither that much of a worthy response. But… what do I know. I am just a Jew of little brain.
We either act as if we really have the proverbial tools to tear to pieces our enemies or…
Lets look at the pictures hailing back from WWII and records from other such events.
Although B.O. almost certainly did not write Dreams from my Father, he certainly provided the raw material (otherwise how would Bill Ayres have known all that information about B.O.’s behavior in college and his thoughts and feelings?) Furthermore, B.O. signed his name to the book, meaning he can not disavow its contents.
As for the other observations, certainly B.O. is powered by hate and seething psychological poisons as well as anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic feelings. What we really need is a thorough psychological analysis of him. Is any writer listening who has the resources to do this?
@ SHmuel HaLevi:
How right you are! It’s a puzzle…Starting with m Rabbi and cantor…
@ Davidka:
Why would we care? I don’t see what makes this man’s particular psychology worthy of our time and attention. Let’s vote him out of office and be done.
@ Alexis:
dear alexis,
i say to hell with this ‘man’.
how is sacha?
@ the phoenix:
Sorcha. Very well, thanks for remembering!
How’s your summer going?
@ Alexis:
Obama,ilegal, poacher, muslim, arab , not black, mom was a Jew. his dad is in Chiago, not the man so think he was. I can not understand how so many have not seen the demonic ways our world has become. Israel is to strike the people who try to take the land. Looks like Isiah 17 is about to explode, followed by Psalms 83,,,and right when Israel starts to think all is ok,,then comes Russia with all the nations..and when they get to G-d’s Holy Hill, HE will roar thru ZION and destroy them all… Messiah s coming very soon G-d Bless Israel and the Jewish People..Shalom