Posted on 04/26/2012 9:20:12 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA
Race Theory professor Derrick Bell did not end after Harvard Law School--and certainly not at the April 24, 1990 rally at which Obama embraced Bell, literally and figuratively. Breitbart News has discovered a letter sent by Obama to Bell in February 1995 in which Obama asks Bell to review--and to blurb--an early version of Obama’s autobiography, then entitled Dreams of My Father.
The letter is preserved in the archives of New York University, to which Bell donated his papers. The archives--which are open to the public--include Bell’s papers from decades of research, writing, teaching, and speaking. The website for the archives lists some of Bell’s notable correspondents, but omits Obama. Though the archives do not permit full publication without permission of the copyright holder, some excerpts can be provided.
The letter, dated February 3, 1995, is on a letterhead from Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Galland, the civil rights law firm that hired Obama. Over two pages, Obama brings Bell up to date on his career in Chicago, mentions that he is using Bell’s textbook with his own students, and asks him for help in reviewing, and promoting, Dreams:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
As for me, I’m keeping busy in Chicago. I’m currently working at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland here in Chicago, a small firm specializing in employment discrimination and voting rights/civil rights cases. I’m also teaching a seminar on race and the law at the University of Chicago law school -- your casebook has been an invaluable reference guide for that.
The main reason I’m writing to you, though, has to do with a book that I’ve been writing, on again, off again, for the past two years. Originally, the book (called Dreams of My Father) was going to be a series of essays on issues of race and class, but as it has evolved it’s become a memoir of my family and my experiences as an organizer in Chicago...
Your name came to mind as somebody whose insight I’ve always appreciated, so I’ve enclosed an advanced reader’s edition of the book. If you have time to read it and think it’s worth of a plug, I’d be thrilled...
Looks like all these past radical associations that Obummer and the Regime have worked very hard to scrub are starting to make their way into the daylight again. Great investigative work by the Breitbart people again. At least there are a few real journalists left.
Dreams from My Father is a beautifully written chronicle of a gifted young man marked and molded by a family whose love for him was as deep as its diversity was daunting. We hear in Barack Obama’s soaring book that survival demands resilience in the face of frustrated expectations, and that one’s committed opposition to the destructive tides of America’s obsession with color cultivates a vision of life that is nourished by struggle.
- Derrick Bell, author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well
The regime knows this guy is bad news as evidenced by their eliminating this from the reprint of the book. It also disproves the lie that Obummers radicalism was just a passing fad in college. He was active in this philosophy well after it.
So Obama was supposed to get past “America’s obsession with color”? When exactly did that happen— between Beer Summits?
bttt
Drip, drip, drip. Will anyone care come November?
obama tells Bell it’s called Dreams OF My Father. Bell writes Dreams FROM My Father. I’m not convinced he read it.
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>> I’m not convinced he read it. <<
Typical of the blurbing class?
No one cares. Seriously. No one except for those who all ready would not vote for BHO cares. 9 out of 10 people on the street would not even know who Bell was, and if you told them would shrug their shoulders and not think it a big deal.
How presumptuous to write an autobiography at age 35, more so when you have accomplished diddly squat.
I find it amusing that I forget about our obsession with color until someone mentions our obsession with color.
Barry is no different than Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. He's all about race and class warfare. He his the most dangerous person ever to sit in the White House.
Sure he is/was a radical who would destroy this country from the inside out, but Romney isn’t our first choice so who cares if we keep him in office for four more years.
Shouldn’t the title have been, Dreams Of My Drunken Deadbeat Father Who Abandoned Me?
Presumptuous? Hey, that's nobama's middle name. Along with arrogant and narcissistic.
Fixed.
Bobo didn't get much for his ask. That is lame as sh!t.
You should really give him credit for being a polygamist a as well. It is quite difficult to court and satisfy 3 wives.
You should really give him credit for being a polygamist a as well. It is quite difficult to court and satisfy 3 wives.
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