All adolescents go through a period of finding their identity, rejecting
their parents, questioning their roots. That was then, this is now. It
appears to me that he has accepted and integrated both sides of his
heritage.
Bongo Jim wrote:
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| From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at
| the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was
| ingratiating myself to whites.'
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| From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive
| sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
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| From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me
| wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
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| From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side
| you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out
| and name names.'
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| From Dreams of My Father: '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.'
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| And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!
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| From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the
| political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
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