Everyone of voting age should read these two books:
Don't buy them, just get them from the library.
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 her that made me wary, a little too sure of herself, 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."
And FINALLY .........
and most scary:
From Audacity of Hope:
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
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