I tip my hat to Jack & Jill Politics for pointing to a set of videos on YouTube featuring Barack Obama in 1995. It’s a cable-TV interview focused on Obama’s first book, “Dreams from My Father.”
Obama hadn’t yet entered politics. He was a civil-rights lawyer at the Chicago firm of Davis, Miller, Barnhill & Galland.
The man has come quite a ways in 13 short years. More impressive than that, though, is the distance traveled since his Kenyan grandfather was born in 1895. Which Obama discusses in the 9½-minute clip below.
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He was so cute!!!
“What about those boys?” Those boys would be young black males in crisis, and Obama sounds so sincere—connecting with the sprit of the Freedom Riders; grassroots organizing.
This really requires an in-depth analysis that I don’t have time to make at this moment.
However since Obama is talking about the leap forward that his father made, I’m sure this issue of his half-brother in Kenya will come up at some point during this campaign. Someone is certain ask, what about your half-brother Barack?
http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2008/08/george-obama-half-brother-of-barack.html
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