Dreams from My Father A Story of Race and Inheritance

Why does Barack Obama call himself black when he's actually biracial? He's as white as he is black.

He wrote a book about them. Oh yeah, I'm not criticizing, I'm saying these are the facts.

It's kind of cliche, but I saw Obama on Oprah and I went and purchased both of his books and read them.

I think what did it for me is I read dreams from my father over the Christmas break before I actually interviewed with him and I thought that book was so honest and he wrote so honestly I thought like you know if a politician is gonna try to be that honest on the national stage I want to stick around and see and see if he can pull it off and I think I think he did.

I read when he started running for president I read the book and dreams my father and I had the same feeling that it was so honest and authentic

When I wrote my first book, Dreams from My Father, and I'd never written a book before and I'd never had anything published before other than like some student magazine stuff.

Congratulations to the president. That's his thing. I think that's fascinating. Considered considering his black dad was nowhere to be found, but as white mom and grandma raised him, but Hey, you do you, I'm going to do me.

In fact, there's a passage in Dreams from My Father about this when he writes about what Chicago was like immediately after Harold's death.

The day before Thanksgiving, Harold Washington died. This is Obama reading on the audiobook. It occurred without warning, sudden, simple, final, almost ridiculous in its ordinariness, the heart of an overweight man giving way.

He says in dreams for my father that the same things drive terrorism in Jakarta as drive crime in the heart of Chicago, right? Not ideology, not philosophy, but poverty.

I cannot fucking believe that Obama's already on his third book. He's only been out of office a year and a half. Was he fucking Stephen King?

Barack Obama wrote a book, which was very good. The first book, Dreams from My Father. It's all about the angst he felt because he didn't have his biological father in his life.

And then when I read his autobiography Dreams from My Father I was like oh wow this is really more like the India I grew up in all the Indian intellectuals talking about anti-colonialism and the British I'm like this is the soil in which this guy was cultivated he just isn't he's a leftist then he is he is a leftist in this.

He's written two books about his own journey and much of that writing is about his inner struggle, his perceptions, his framing and reframing of the world around him.

He's written two books about his own journey and much of that writing is about his inner struggle, his perceptions, his framing and reframing of the world around him.

And then he started talking about the awesome guy that we serve in the blue states.