Remembering episodes such as segregation in schools. Obama is very vocal about his passion for a proper education. In fact, in his book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, he stated that "perhaps education doesn't do us much good unless it's mixed with sweat." Obama believes that the same schools that were once segregated are still flawed despite the change. And this is a major cause of the “pervasive achievement gap” between black and white students today. Obama then brings to attention what he calls “legalized discrimination” and defines it as “where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owning property, or loans were not made to African American business owners, or black homeowners were not they were able to access the FHA.” mortgage loans, or blacks were barred from unions, or from the police force, or from the fire department” (Obama, B..