Obama Baloney Alert: His Childhood “Racial Awakening” Was Actually A Novel
By Uppity Woman on April 29, 2008 at 6:47 PM in Barack Obama
Anybody who isn’t still swooning over the Incandescent One already knows that Barack Obama’s fictional autobiographical book, Memories I Pulled Out Of My Butt Dreams From My Father contains lies innacurate accounts.
Now we can add yet another Barack Obama Fuzzy Story to the list.
In Dreams, Obama refers to an article in Life Magazine that stimulated a huge revelation and racial-awakening in little Barry at age 9. Obama claimed there was an article in Life Magazine that contained photographs of an “older” “black man,““in dark glasses,” who had “heavy lips” and a “broad, fleshy nose”. The man, according to Obama, had used chemicals to lighten his skin and was looking at himself in a mirror in horror. There was a closeup of the man’s whitened hands, hopelessly scarred by these caustic chemicals of some sort. Barack was presumably aghast and horrified that someone would go to such extremes to turn himself white. Thus, we learned of little Barry’s “racial-awakening”.
Nice try but no Cigar for Barry.
Author and Poet Robert Bonazzi wrote a biography of the author of a novel entitled, Black Like Me.
When Obama spoke in the Texas Capitol two years ago at the Texas Book Festival, Bonazzi tried but failed to fight through the crowd to give Obama Black Like Me.
The thing is, John Howard Griffin thought of Barry’s “revelation” first in his 1960 novel, Black Like Me.
In the best-seller Black Like Me, the white Mr. Griffin used ultra-violet treatments and photo-sensitizing medication to darken his skin in order to appear as a black man. His intent was to write an account of his experiences as a “black” man in the segregated south. The article that fits Barack’s description appeared in Sepia Magazine. It was a promotional story on Mr. Griffin’s new book, which included a photo of the “black” Mr. Griffin in dark glasses looking in the mirror, as well as a close-up of Griffin’s darkened hands. Presto! Just like Barry’s “revelation” article- in reverse! Both Time Magazine and Newsweek also carried Sepia’s piece with the accompanying photos, and it is very possible that little Barry read that piece in bound magazine archives at the Embassy in Indonesia (where his mother, who was on ‘food stamps,” worked). Either that, or Barry channeled Griffin. We all know he has messianic powers, so who knows?
It’s more likely that Barack’s Dreams “racial-awakening” experience was the Black Like Me story with the old switcheroo. This makes Barry either a Blowhard or Delusional. You pick.
Black Like Me sold 11,000,000 copies in 15 languages and is still in print today. It was widely used as High School reading material in the 60s and is still purchased via Mass Media. Richard Widmark played Griffin in the movie Black Like Me.
