Everyone of voting age should read these two books. Don't buy them, get them from the library before they are removed from the shelves. In his own words------ ' And FINALLY, and most scary! We CANNOT have someone with this mentality running our GREAT nation!! I don't care whether you are a Democrat , a Republican, a Conservative or a liberal, We CANNOT turn ourselves over to this type of character in a President. We have really put ourselves in harm's way !!! ................GOD HELP US............. |
| I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13 when I began suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites. |
| 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.' |
| There was something about her that made me wary, a little too sure of herself, maybe and white. |
| It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names. |
| '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.' |
| 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction..' |