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Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

Obama's Socialist Agenda

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sep 8 2009, 10:09 AM ET Comment

Heh, from commenter GAPeach7:

A few excerpts from the President's socialist agenda:

And that's what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.
And no matter what you want to do with your life - I guarantee that you'll need an education to do it.
We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don't do that - if you quit on school - you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country.
But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life - what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home - that's no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That's no excuse for not trying.


How dare he encourage the children of this country to stay in school and not allow the circumstances of their birth or environment dictate their future. How dare he encourage love and respect of family and country. We've got to keep an eye on this scoundrel.

Full text of the speech (or Phase 1 of Indoctrinate Our Children) go here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/

That Obama is a tricky one.


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