Misleading e-mail: From Dreams of My Father : ; "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

Actual quote from "Dreams from My Father" [pg. 100-101]: To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist[*] professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism[**], Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism[***]  and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois[****] society's stifling constraints. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.  But this strategy alone couldn't provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.[Emphasis added - mh]"

 

* Marxist - Someone who holds the political and economic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society's allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society [communism]. (source: Answers.com)

 

"Neocolonialism is the stage of development of capitalism and imperialism in which colonies are exploited by making them economically dependent on the imperialist power. Armed force is not used to impose a colonial government nor to exclude other imperial powers, though imperialist violence is relied upon to secure the conditions of domination."  "Neocolonialism" in Encyclopedia of Marxism

 

** neocolonialism -  A policy whereby a major power uses economic and political means to perpetuate or extend its influence over underdeveloped nations or area (source: Answers.com) This is one of the terms used by the "blame America first crowd" who, in so many words say,  America IS the source of all the evil in the world!

 

*** Eurocentrism  - Is the practice of viewing the world from a European perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European (and, more generally, of Western) culture, concerns and values at the expense of non- Europeans. (source: Answers.com)

 

**** bourgeois - Referring to or derived from the Bourgeoisie concept.  In common usage the term has pejorative (disparaging or belittling word or expression) connotations suggesting either undeserved wealth, or lifestyles, tastes, and opinions that lack the sophistication of the rich or the authenticity of the intellectual or the poor.  It is rare for people in the English speaking world to identify themselves as members of the bourgeoisie, although many self-identify as middle class. On the other hand some would self-identify as proletarians (term used to identify a lower social class). In reality many members of this class are transitory as Marx had originally argued. (source: Wikipedia)

 

It doesn't seem as though Barack Hussein Obama has essentially changed his Marxist views from those he held during his days at the university [Indoctrinate U] or even later when he wrote the book.  Rather, he's merely expanded them. Strong evidence of this is his recent proposal. It's called the "Global Poverty Act" [otherwise known as the 'United States Poverty Bill'] that would, in the next decade, transfer at least $845 billion of U.S. taxpayer money overseas.

 

Barack Hussein Obama wants, over and above what the USA already spends in foreign aid, that $845 billion of U.S. taxpayer money [for those of you who don't quite "get it," it's the money the government takes from you out of your paycheck and other things, and now Obama wants to take even more of it!] to be laid at the altar of the United Nations for it, this unelected body, to then disperse to the most 'needy' corrupt third-world despots, tyrants and dictators whom reside generally in Africa.

 

"The Global Poverty Act would be a giant step toward the [United Nation's] Millennium Goals of global governance and international taxes on Americans." - Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media

 

Just think, he may just pull this off as a senator, imagine what he might do as president!

 

That's right, it's CRAZY!!! The government

is giving away even more [taxpayer] money!!!