When Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination, many had high hopes that his breakthrough would move American social consciousness forward into a post-racial era. Many thought the time had come when candidates would be judged by their qualifications and dedication to our country, not by their race.

To see why it is impossible for Obama to play this transcending role, read his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance." His Dreams are obsessed with race and race conflict.

This book is an extraordinary 442 pages that appear to be written by an experienced novelist who knows how to tell a compelling story laced with minute detail about everything from clothes to odors, fictional characters and invented conversations. It is complete with the colloquialisms, ungrammatical English and four-letter words that the author thinks are appropriate to the people he quotes.

Obama describes how he deliberately separated himself from his multiracial heritage in order to give himself a 100 percent black persona, different and alienated from the white world around him. Obama writes that the book is "a record of a personal, interior journey" to establish himself as "a black American."
With his new all-black identity, Obama stews about injustices that he never personally experienced and feeds his warped worldview by withdrawing into a "smaller and smaller coil of rage." He lives with a "nightmare vision" of black powerlessness.

Obama says that the hate doesn't go away. "It formed a counter-narrative buried deep within each person and at the center of which stood white people -- some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."

Obama's worldview sees U.S. history as a consistent tale of oppressors and oppressed. He objects to the public schools because black kids are learning "someone else's history. Someone else's culture."

He even criticizes his white grandparents, who worked hard to give him a privileged life. Their motives are a mystery to Obama because they came from the "landlocked center" of the United States, which, he asserts, is full of "suspicion and the potential for unblinking cruelty."
Obama grew up in Hawaii, the exemplar of a melting pot of races, yet he sees it as a place of "aborted treaties and crippling diseases brought by the missionaries." Although his mixed race was not a handicap in Hawaii, he whined that "we were always playing on the white man's court ... by the white man's rules."

One day his grandmother, while waiting for a bus to take her to work, was accosted by a panhandler. She gave him a dollar, but he aggressively demanded more -- and she was scared because he looked like he might hit her.
When Obama learned that the panhandler was black, he said the news hit him "like a fist in my stomach." Obama objected to the fact that his grandmother was "scared of a black man," and his resentment at her (not at the panhandler) was such a big deal that he referred to this incident repeatedly.

Obama immersed himself in the writings of radical blacks: Richard Wright, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Langston Hughes. Obama's favorite became Malcolm X.

Obama scarcely knew his father, yet he wrote: "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."
Obama described his happiness in going to Kenya: "For the first time in my life, I felt the comfort, the firmness of identity that a name might provide." He felt he "belonged" and had come home. Apparently, the only other place he felt at home was in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church in Chicago.

Obama rejects racial integration because it is "a one-way street" with blacks being "assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around." Does he think America would be a better country if whites were assimilated into African culture?

There is absolutely nothing in this book that expresses pride in or love of or appreciation of America. In 442 pages of introspection extending over his life as a teen, undergraduate and law student at prestigious institutions, community organizer and working adult, he doesn't say anything positive about American government, culture, society, freedom or opportunity.
Obama's refusal to wear an American flag pin on his lapel sounded too trivial for a ampaign issue. But since there is nothing in his book about respect for the flag, or the republic for which it stands, maybe the flag-pin flap does indicate his disdain for patriotism.

In his autobiography, Obama accepts the view that "black people have reason to hate." His later book is called "The Audacity of Hope," but his autobiography, which he has never disavowed, should be titled "The Audacity of Hate."


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5p3OB6roAg

It makes the blood piping hot. Without hate there would be no love.

My own opinion is that white Americans will still gain a lot by having him in office. Better race relations being the first thing. Reduced White guilt will be another.

We can't continue to have a seething population of Blacks, one generation after the other, angry at Whites. This is a golden opportunity.

And yes, I think some anger at White Euro-Americans is appropriate. As long as it is defensive.

Next you'll be saying there is no god.

Guilt by association?  Looks like Failin, I mean Palin has the ultimate guilt by association, her own husband a AIP member.

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We haven't had an Italian, a Jew, an Asian, a Native American or a Hispanic POTUS either, not to mention a woman of any color. So why do we, excuse me, Why do "YOU" feel so obligated to put a black man at the head of the line?

I believe in equal rights, you apparently believe in special rights.

And just why do you believe some anger at White Euro-Americans is appropriate even if those white people had nothing to do with keeping "the black man down"? If you are referring to someone along the lines of Robert Byrd that's one thing, but all white people many of which weren't even born until the civil rights era? What have they done to deserve this anger.

I feel no white guilt.  Why, because I have always judged someone by their actions and not the color of their skin.

How smart of you to approve anger by one race against another.  That should really help bring people together.

White politicians and appointed black leaders made black people special.

Anyone outsider that tells a man "you have no struggle" while that man is in the thick of that struggle...is fully deserving of that man's anger and disdain.  Trying to dispute the validity of his claims with comparisons of what other groups have or haven't had to endure only makes it worse.  

Nope. The internment camps argument doesn't quite add up.  

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"in the thick of that struggle" What a fucking crybaby. Get over yourself already.

You have equal rights, that should be enough for anyone, but no, You want a special set of rights just for blacks. Like you are the only people on the planet who have suffered. You are a disgrace to the millions of other Black people who get up and take care of business every single day and count their blessings for living in the greatest fucking country in the world instead of complaining how "The Man" has kept them down.

Conroy, You are downright pitiful. Take your pity party somewhere else.

...I still have to ask:  is this a fact based argument, or just more emotion?  

Set the record straight for me once and for all...  Are black people unified in their "whining" for more entitlements, or are there millions that "get up and take care of business every single day and count their blessings?"  LOL...could you PLEASE clarify which of these you believe is accurate before you contradict yourself?    

Insulting me still doesn't really address the issue.  

"Greatest fucking country in the world."  lol.  Still watching those "I'm Just A Bill" cartoons, huh?

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When I refer to whiners I am talking about you in specific not black people in general. I don't like or dislike people by groups, I wouldn't respect you if you were white, brown or green. If you were white you'd probably still be complaining that you and "your" people were the most persecuted.

Amd yes, insulting you does address the issue. I don't dislike you because you are black, I dislike you because you are a whiner who blames others for everything that is wrong in your life. Is that clear enough for you?

...because before you did make some blanket comments about black people "whining" for "entitlements."  Are now you saying that you were in fact full-of-shit at time you made those generalizations?  

Also, how exactly does insulting me address the issue?    

I think I'm going to start picking your idiotic postings apart, because you've gotten away with some pretty jack-assed notions since I started following this board.  

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I don't think Blacks, even angry ones, call for  diminishing the rights of Whites, or enslaving them for justice. I largely don't see that outside of the rap culture, and even there they generally want to advance, not trip White people up.

If I had to say it, by and large, it's the same thing for Whites, but the problem is for the most part, Whites fail to see the racism institutionalized by other Whites. They don't question.