Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Book Review - Five Stars
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
                              An autobiography from his beginnings.

Dreams from My Father is honestly and openly written giving you an insight into how and why this very special man climbed one step at a time on his astonishing political rise. Being good was not good enough, he had to be the best of the best dodging pit falls of entrapment viciously contrived by bigot bastards and other hate mongers. Barack Obama would mark a pivotal point of world history.
Excerpts:
All you know is that college is the next thing you’re supposed to do….The real price of admission...
“And what’s that?” “Leaving your race at the door,” he said. “Leaving your people behind.” He studied me over the top of his reading glasses. Understand something, boy. You’re not going to college to get educated. You’re going there to get trained. They’ll train you to want what you don’t need. They’ll train you to manipulate words so they don’t mean anything anymore. They’ll train you to forget what it is that you already know. They’ll train you so good, you’ll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit.



Thomas Paine issued his brilliant and inflammatory pamphlet Common Sense, in which he pronounced, directly contrary to Gibbon’s conclusion, that a new social and political order must be wrought by whatever violent means necessary and that America was at that moment the place to undertake such action; the principles of contemporary government must be challenged and changed.