I keep hearing that Barack Obama came from a working class background and was raised by a single mother. Why, then, did he title his book Dreams from my Father? If his father didn’t help raise him, shouldn’t he give his mother more props? Or he just fabricating the single Mom story for a working class audience?
Originally posted 2008-12-24 05:39:29.
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Indeed he was raised mainly by his mother and grandmother; he had a stepfather for a while.
As to he titled his book the way he did, I can only speculate. I haven’t even read it. But I have the impression of Barack as a man who is seeking his identity, not yet sure who he is. This in spite of the fact that he is a highly accomplished and capable person with a loving wife and kids. He still yearns for that father whom he doesn’t really know at all.
As I said, this is my impression.