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Dreams from My father
By paul watkins
Now in his mid-30's, Mr. Obama is the son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father who met and married as students at the University of Hawaii. His father returned to Kenya when Mr. Obama was still young. Mr. Obama charts his journey through adolescence into manhood with the familiar type of anecdotes, but adds to them a bewildering combination of races, relatives and homelands, from Hawaii to Indonesia to Africa to Chicago.
Mr. Obama was born into a cultural milieu that on the surface made for perfect social and racial diversity, but living such a life proved extraordinarily difficult. To balance the blessing of diversity and the pain of never feeling completely a part of one people or one place, the young Mr. Obama falls back on colorful stories from the world of his imagination. He boldly tells his classmates at the prestigious Punahou Academy in Hawaii, where he is on scholarship, that his father's tribe in Africa "is full of warriors." The name Obama, he tells them, "means 'Burning Spear.' The men in our tribe all want to be chief, so my father has to settle these feuds" before the boy can go visit him.
After college in Los Angeles and New York City, he sets out to become a community organizer. Mr. Obama admits he's unsure exactly what the phrase means, but is attracted by the ideal of people united in community and purpose: "A promise of redemption." He begins an apprenticeship at the Altgeld Gardens public housing project in Chicago, but he quickly becomes the pawn of professional organizers, intent on profiteering from money gouged out of the city budget. Although Mr. Obama is no more black than he is white, his quest for acceptance is aimed at the African-Americans with whom he shares his organizational duties, and his story bogs down in discussions of racial exploitation without really shedding any new light on the subject.
A Story of Race and Inheritance.
Now in his mid-30's, Mr. Obama is the son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father who met and married as students at the University of Hawaii. His father returned to Kenya when Mr. Obama was still young. Mr. Obama charts his journey through adolescence into manhood with the familiar type of anecdotes, but adds to them a bewildering combination of races, relatives and homelands, from Hawaii to Indonesia to Africa to Chicago.
Mr. Obama was born into a cultural milieu that on the surface made for perfect social and racial diversity, but living such a life proved extraordinarily difficult. To balance the blessing of diversity and the pain of never feeling completely a part of one people or one place, the young Mr. Obama falls back on colorful stories from the world of his imagination. He boldly tells his classmates at the prestigious Punahou Academy in Hawaii, where he is on scholarship, that his father's tribe in Africa "is full of warriors." The name Obama, he tells them, "means 'Burning Spear.' The men in our tribe all want to be chief, so my father has to settle these feuds" before the boy can go visit him.
After college in Los Angeles and New York City, he sets out to become a community organizer. Mr. Obama admits he's unsure exactly what the phrase means, but is attracted by the ideal of people united in community and purpose: "A promise of redemption." He begins an apprenticeship at the Altgeld Gardens public housing project in Chicago, but he quickly becomes the pawn of professional organizers, intent on profiteering from money gouged out of the city budget. Although Mr. Obama is no more black than he is white, his quest for acceptance is aimed at the African-Americans with whom he shares his organizational duties, and his story bogs down in discussions of racial exploitation without really shedding any new light on the subject.
A Story of Race and Inheritance.
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