Battling The Bigotry, Libel And Outright Lies

Someone posted this as her own personal opinion.  I not only disagree with these "quotes", I emphatically state that this is a collection of bald-faced lies created by someone with no honor, and posted by people with no intention of being honest or admitting they are guilty of libel and copyright infringement.  It has appeared on Gather more than once, but this is the first time I've seen it.  I contacted the publisher and the author for assistance, and requested permission to use actual quotes from the books to correct these right-wing falsehoods. 

When I first saw these lies, I requested proof.  I found out rather quickly that's a dirty word for Christian Conservatives.  After my protests for lack of facts go unanswered, a particularly inconsequential individual requests that I stop bothering this poster with such unimportant things as demanding personal accountability, (because only the right can demand this at town hall meetings).  She posts these 'facts' herself: (unchanged from the original comment)

"YO Wyoming Catt....here is the pagesyou were looking for.

Pg 261 From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction..' okay so he didnt' say Muslims,,,he said THEM....meaing Arabs and Pakistani "Americans" who were afraid of being interred like the Japanese in WWII

pg 220 From Dreams of My Father: '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.'

pg xu in the introducition of 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.

Pg 101 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..'

Pg 142 From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about her that made me wary, a little too sure of herself, maybe and white.

Okay? so now shut up and apologize,,,,there are more, shall I post them for you"

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As usual, these individuals aren't very coherent when lying, nor are they fully cognizant of accurate spelling and punctuation rules. But I got the gist of it, anyway.

So, since this person has invited rebuttal, I will post it here.  I'm taking these in the order she put them, and have no problem posting actual pics of the pages, if need be:

Page 261-- (Paraphrased to excite "patriots")  You can see on the above-referenced page that I've already shot that one down.

Page 220- Doctored quote. I find it odd that you did it, too, exactly the same way.  Why did you do that?  Do you actually have the book? Or are you being as dishonest as the original poster and pretending you do?   Anyway, this was paraphrased and cut up to mean something "threatening".  The actual quote- verbatim:

"Yes, I'd seen weakness in other men - Gramps and his disappointments, Lolo and his compromise. But these men had become object lessons for me, men I might love but 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. And if later I saw that the black men I knew - Frank or Ray or Will or Rafiq - fell short of such lofty standards; if I had learned to respect these men for the struggles they went through, recognizing them as my own - my father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval.  You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!"

Page XV in the introduction-- In full context, the statement is part of his observations on race relations and others' first impressions of him when they learn of his mixed heritage. Here, verbatim, is the entirety:

"When people who don't know me well, black or white, discover my background (and it is usually a discovery, for I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites), I see the split-second adjustments they have to make, the searching of my eyes for some telltale sign. They no longer know who I am. Privately, they guess at my troubled heart, I suppose - ..."

Page101-- Taken out of context to make him appear racially militant. However, However, when the full paragraphs are read, they reveal young Barack's confusion over his race and cultural heritage.

"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."

Page 142-- I had my suspicions before, but now I KNOW this person doesn't have that book in hand.  She uses the same gender assertions the original poster did, and no such "she" exists in the true quote, which is below:

"Now he was trying to pull urban blacks and suburban whites together around a plan to save manufacturing jobs in metropolitan Chicago. He needed somebody to work with him, he said. Somebody black. ...
...After he was gone, I took the long way home, along the East River promenade, and tried to figure out what to make of the man. He was smart, I decided. He seemed committed to his work. Still, there was something about him that made me wary. A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white - he'd said himself that that was a problem."

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Now, of course, there is more, ONE MORE, and I'm fully aware of why she didn't comment on it.  IT EXISTS NOWHERE IN HIS BOOKS. From the original post:

From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'

This passage was actually taken from an unfavorable review of his book in the American Conservative March 2007 issue by author Steve Sailer. The words are his, not Obama's.

To quote Mr. Sailer:

"He inherited his father’s penetrating intelligence; was raised mostly by his loving liberal white grandparents in multiracial, laid-back Hawaii, where America’s normal race rules never applied; and received a superb private school education. And yet, at least through age 33 when he wrote Dreams from My Father, he found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against his mother’s race."

SO--  Me, shut up and apologize?  Don't think so.  I do think apologies are owed to myself and the author of  "Dreams Of My Father" for continuing to perpetrate lies and committing libel in the interests of furthering racial animosity and party 'integrity'. But, knowing such as these have no honor, I will not waste a brain cell in hopes of receiving said apology.

The political climate has enough anger and resentment on both sides without unprincipled clodpates adding unfounded and unresearched fuel to the fire.

Anyone who does this, deserves to be publicly taken to task by Gather officials for disregarding the Terms Of Service everyone else has to abide by.  And for just being lousy examples of human beings.