Audacity of Hope and Dreams of My Father

One time in high school, my English teacher assigned us to write a paper on a book we were reading in class. _The Great Gatsby_ I think it was. Yes.

And me, being the procrastinator that I am, hadn't read the book and it was the night before it was due. But I had to write a 7-8 page paper on this book analyzing the character of TGG. So I, even though exhausted after coming all the back back home from an away basketball game, picked out a few quotes from random pages and wrote until my eyes couldn't look at the computer screen anymore.

After turning it in and receiving my grade, my teacher told me it was one of the best papers she'd ever read and the deep analysis was "incredible."

This story is fitting for _The Audacity of Hope_ and _Dreams of My Father_ because again, I do not need to read these books to figure out the character of this man who is running for president of the United States. Really, all anyone has to do is pick out a few quotes to see that this man hides behind his rhetoric and articulate voice.

Here are just a few of the quotes that I find a little scary:

1.) DOMF: '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.'

2.) DOMF: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'

3.) DOMF: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'

4.) DOMF: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'

5.) DOMF: '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.'

6.) And finally, perhaps the scariest of them all, from TAOH: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

I think these excerpts give everyone a clear picture of what this man is really like outside of his black image and light skin tone.

Give this review whatever rating you wish because, quite frankly, I do not care what you think. I tell it like it is and I always will.

Oh, and one more thing. Did you know that if go to Barnes & Noble and you type "God" in the search bar, Barack Obama's book _TAOH_ comes up?

Coincidence? No.