Barack Obama wrote, in Dreams from My Father, of the huge impact this black revolutionary hero’s memoir had on him, as none others did: “Only Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me.” Self-creation indeed.

If Malcolm X secretly sired Barack Obama, then the title Dreams from My Father would indeed take on a whole new meaning, with Obama Sr. revealed as a kind of paternal proxy, a stand-in for a revolutionary of a higher spiritual and political order whose identity the self-creating son could never reveal if his own ambitions, and his real father’s ambitions for him, were to be realized.


http://www.kapiolani.org/women-and-children/about-us/default.aspx

New to you maybe. But this has been around for a while.

the full quote

“Only Malcom X’s autobiography seemed to offer something
different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged
through sheer force of will.

All the other stuff, the talk of the blue-eyed devils and apocalypse, was incidental to that program, I decided, religious baggage that Malcolm himself seemed to have safely abandoned toward the end of his life.

And yet, even as I imagined myself following Malcolm’s call, one
line in the book stayed with me. He spoke of a wish he’d once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged.

I knew that, for Malcolm, that wish would never be so incidental. I knew as well that traveling down the road to self-respect my
own white blood would never recede into mere abstraction. I was left to wonder what else I would be severing if and when I left my mother and my grandparents at some uncharted border.

And too: If Malcolm’s discovery toward the end of his life, that some whites might live beside him as brothers in Islam, seemed to offer some hope of eventual reconciliation, that hope appeared in a distant future, in a far-off land.”

is that evidence of Gods eye overlooking the galaxy?

is that evidence of Gods eye overlooking the galaxy?

why is it a blue eye?....lol

yes, But this has been around for a while.

only one that I could find....

Is that a photo shop picture with an eyeball in it?

If it is a real galaxy.... creepy.

The all seeing eye.

I couldn't find a raccoon eye.

I might use that for my mingle icon ... its creepier than my eye.

yea, but your eye was much sexier.

I'd rather be creepy.

Thats cool too.