31 October 2008
Obama’s Own Words Condemn Him
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: Presidential Election 2008 .
I wanted to share this email I received from Charles Castleberry. It is part of an exchange with a girl named Holly who seems to feel some people are being hard on Senator Obama. Here is the response Charles sent her:
Hello Holly,
I appreciate your email. I have a cousin who adopted three African American babies and my wife babysat them for quite awhile. We were encouraged that they were raised to embrace their heritage. But still, it is hard to integrate totally with so much bigotry. I don’t believe that passing on the actual quotes from Obama’s book approaches bigotry. It is valuable to know the thinking that may go into decisions he may make as president. Will he support Israel, etc.?
If Romney had written things like Obama did, then I would expect the press to let me know what he has actually written. (The LA Times has video of very incriminating statements by Obama that they will not desiminate. How can we make informed decisions when the press has already made them for us?) How can we dismiss the words written in adulthood that include:
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.’
Just an opinion.
Chuck
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