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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980
Quotes from Obama's book............Page 99-101
"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." Yes obama was talking about avoiding being see with people so he was not seen as a "sell out".
Pg. 101-102......
"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."
"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."
Those are just a couple, sure my opponents will argue context as an excuse but he said them, they are racist thoughts and his actions as president in different incidents involving race shows he still harbors such feelings.
A white guy running ever said such things? LOL he would never have made it through primaries.
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And what you are doing is cherry picking some lines while ignoring the context. Obama is refering to his "angry young man" phase, explaining the motivations for the views of his youth, talking about his transition from living in a white-dominated universe to one of blacks. His book is a story of his stuggle with his multi-racial background, and his coming to terms with who he is. You, like many of the people you listen to, make the mistake of replacing the narrative of the young Barack Obama with that of the elder Barack Obama. Of course, I might say that it is not so much a mistake as intentional misrepresentation to make a point.