- In one of the most remarkable passages in Barack Obama's "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," he uses the terms "collaborator," "Uncle Tom," and "House nigger" to describe someone he detests.
- he views people who disagree with him—including members of his own family—in terms of ideological kinship or betrayal
- By the time Onyango was 25, Kenya was an official British colony. Onyango was a house servant in Nairobi. He had to carry around identity papers that included evaluations of his previous domestic work.
- During the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s he was detained in an internment camp
- So far we might expect that Onyango would have his grandson's full sympathy, and this indeed was the case.
- It is what followed in Onyango's life that got Barack Obama thinking very differently about him.
- Throughout his life, Onyango identified the British with civilization and progress.
- From Obama's point of view, Onyango's unforgivable heresy was not merely his admiration of the British, but how this man contemplated the differences between Western and African ways.
- Onyango's favorable disposition toward the West, provoked in Obama a visceral reaction. Obama reports that as he heard Onyango's views, "I...felt betrayed."
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Why did Obama use the N-word to describe his grandfather?
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