I don’t know how to handle this English question and need guidance.
1- Obama spends a lot of “What I See in Lincoln’s Eyes” making comparisons between himself and President Lincoln. In what passage does Obama actually offer a contrast?
A
A connected idea attracts us to Lincoln: As we remake ourselves, we remake our surroundings. He didn’t just talk or write or theorize.
B
In Lincoln’s rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat––in all this, he reminded me not just of my own struggles.
As a law professor and civil rights lawyer and as an African American, I am fully aware of his limited views on race. Anyone who actually reads the Emancipation Proclamation knows it was more a military document than a clarion call for justice.