Posted on 03/24/2010 9:15:09 AM PDT by melwFN
I posted this article on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2477766/posts?page=3#3 yesterday..relevant here
Lawyer, teacher, philanthropist, and author Barack Obama doesn’t need another career. But he’s entering politics to get back to his true passioncommunity organization.
By Hank De Zutter
December 8, 1995
When Barack Obama returned to Chicago in 1991 after three brilliant years at Harvard Law School, he didn’t like what he saw. The former community activist, then 30, had come fresh from a term as president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review, a position he was the first African-American to hold. Now he was ready to continue his battle to organize Chicago’s black neighborhoods. But the state of the city muted his exuberance.
Upon my return to Chicago, he would write in the epilogue to his recently published memoir, Dreams From My Father, I would find the signs of decay accelerated throughout the South Sidethe neighborhoods shabbier, the children edgier and less restrained, more middle-class families heading out to the suburbs, the jails bursting with glowering youth, my brothers without prospects. All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we’ve done to make so many children’s hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compasswhat values we must live by. Instead I see us doing what we’ve always donepretending that these children are somehow not our own.
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