Did Obama Misrepresent Grandmother’s Fear of Black Men on the Street?
Politics • March 2008 • Views: 428
One of the more controversial statements from Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday was his reference to his white grandmother’s “fear of black men who passed by her on the street.”
Curiously, his most recent account of her anxieties don’t mesh with what he wrote about this subject in his 1996 book “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.”