Some things are so amazing, you just couldn't make 'em up.
1. "Young Obama Said the American Dream Is to Be Donald Trump
2. In 1991, Barack Obama was 29 years old and about to graduate from Harvard Law School. That year, he penned a paper ...where he summed up the average American mindset in one rather brutal and prescient sentence: "I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will."
3. .That excerpt of that previously unpublished law school paper, and much more, is inside Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,...interesting tidbits, including a young Obama's thoughtful analysis of the American psyche's Trumpian desires.
4. When Obama and Fisher analyzed the pitfalls of the American dream, both among the white majority and African Americans, they wrote:
[Americans have] a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American—I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will.
5. The paper argued that black Americans should "shift away from rights rhetoric and towards the language of opportunity."
6. Ironically, when Trump, who Obama identified as the object of so much American longing, actually became president, his inauguration speech made it clear that his presidency would have not have much to do with dreaming and hope."
Young Obama Said the American Dream Is to Be Donald Trump
1. "Young Obama Said the American Dream Is to Be Donald Trump
2. In 1991, Barack Obama was 29 years old and about to graduate from Harvard Law School. That year, he penned a paper ...where he summed up the average American mindset in one rather brutal and prescient sentence: "I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will."
3. .That excerpt of that previously unpublished law school paper, and much more, is inside Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,...interesting tidbits, including a young Obama's thoughtful analysis of the American psyche's Trumpian desires.
4. When Obama and Fisher analyzed the pitfalls of the American dream, both among the white majority and African Americans, they wrote:
[Americans have] a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American—I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will.
5. The paper argued that black Americans should "shift away from rights rhetoric and towards the language of opportunity."
6. Ironically, when Trump, who Obama identified as the object of so much American longing, actually became president, his inauguration speech made it clear that his presidency would have not have much to do with dreaming and hope."
Young Obama Said the American Dream Is to Be Donald Trump