Monday, October 13, 2008
A letter of response to the Brainwashed of the Country....
Phillip Wister MFT
---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:07:30 -0700
>From: Sandra Graham
>Subject: Please Read
>To: Bill Fratus
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> For all of you who still think this man is not a
> racist and a Christian read some of the excepts from
> his books. Sandra
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> 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.'
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> From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in
> nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and
> animosity against my mother's race.'
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> From Dreams of My Father:'There was something
> about him that made me wary, a little too sure of
> himself, maybe. And white.'
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> 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.'
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> 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.'
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> And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!
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> From Audacity of Hope:'I will stand with the
> Muslims should the political winds shift in an
> ugly direction.'
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> * If you have never forwarded an e-mail, now is
> the time to Do so!!! We CANNOT have someone with
> this type of mentality running our GREAT nation!!
> I don't care whether you a Democrat or a
> Conservative. We CANNOT turn ourselves over to
> this type of character in a President. PLEASE help
> spread the word
http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/therealquote
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_obama_write_that_he_would_stand.html
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp
Here are a few facts about Barack and his books that people should know:
Dreams from My Father is a thoughtful, genuine look at family and race in America that Ontheissues.org calls: "the book to read if you want to understand Obama's personal background and how it forms his character. It was written while he was still only an obscure State Senator -- written in his spare time, without a ghost writer, while struggling to make ends meet on a state senator's salary."
One of the seemingly offensive quotes from these smear emails is really taken from this passage, a touching meditation on the difficulties bi-racial people have balancing two identities: "When people who don't know me well, black or white, discover my background (and it is usually a discovery, for I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect I was ingratiating myself to whites), I see the split-second adjustments they have to make, the searching of my eyes for some telltale sign. They no longer know who I am."
On March 18th, 2008, Barack concluded a landmark speech on race in America with a stirring reminder that we all depend on each other here: "[W]hat is called for is nothing more, and nothing less, than what all the world's great religions demand -- that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Let us be our brother's keeper, Scripture tells us. Let us be our sister's keeper. Let us find that common stake we all have in one another, and let our politics reflect that spirit as well."
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