In your estimation, does it portend
for anything going forward for Berg’s
case ?
Haven’t a clue how those words impact,
if at all.
This if the FIRST time I’ve come across anything saying his mother helped him with his book. She was in Bali in the 90’s ........
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Dreams from My Father
She helped her son write his book, Dreams from My Father, while she was battling cancer. Obama wrote:
During the writing of this book, she would read the drafts, correcting stories that I had misunderstood, careful not to comment on my characterizations of her but quick to explain or defend the less flattering aspects of my father’s character.[11]
Obama noted in the book that it was Ann rather than his natural father who taught him about his African American heritage.
She would come home with books on the civil rights movement, the recordings of Mahalia Jackson, the speeches of Dr. King. When she told me stories of schoolchildren in the South who were forced to read books handed down from wealthier white schools but who went on to become doctors and lawyers and scientists, I felt chastened by my reluctance to wake up and study in the mornings…
Every black man was Thurgood Marshall or Sidney Poitier; every black woman Fannie Lou Hamer or Lena Horne. To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.[12]
Obama noted in the book that he might have written a different book if he had known she was dying when he wrote it:
I think sometimes that had I known she would not survive her illness, I might have written a different book—less a meditation on the absent parent, more a celebration of the one who was the single constant in my life.
In my daughters I see her every day, her joy, her capacity for wonder. I won’t try to describe how deeply I mourn her passing still. I know that she was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known, and that what is best in me I owe to her.[13]
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Ann_Dunham
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His mother = his first class and race propagandist and mentor
It did.
Here read this. From January 13th SatinDoll post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164219/posts?page=15#15