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 (drunk as a coot, car wrapped around a palm tree trunk): “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”
From Dreams of My Father (drunk as a coot, car wrapped around a palm tree trunk): “There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.”
From Dreams of My Father (drunk as a coot, car wrapped around a palm tree trunk): “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 (drunk as a coot, car wrapped around a palm tree trunk): “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.”
From Audacity of Hope (just damn): “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Wait.
Are those actual quotes from Obama’s books?
Man, things are worse than I thought.