Posted on 09/17/2008 8:57:14 AM PDT by vadum
As reported elsewhere, Senator Barack Obama's campaign has confirmed that as a young man he knew Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis, a point we made the Obama profile we ran in the June issue of Foundation Watch.
The confirmation of the relationship comes at pages 9 and 10 of "Unfit for Publication: An investigative report on the lies in Jerome Corsi's 'Obama Nation,'" which the campaign released.
Our article, "Barack Obama: A Radical Leftist's Journey from Community Organizing to Politics," states
Obama also appears to have been influenced by his boyhood mentor, poet-activist Frank Marshall Davis, an apologist for the Soviet Union and member of the Communist Party USA. Obama refers to him simply as "Frank" in Dreams From My Father. In Dreams, Obama describes "Frank" as "pushing eighty" and as a poet of "some modest notoriety once" who visited his family in Hawaii and who was "a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during his years in Chicago."
How do we know "Frank" refers to Frank Marshall Davis? In a 2007 speech at the dedication of a Communist Party (CP) archive, fellow traveler and historian Gerald Horne, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, clarified the relationship between Obama and Davis:
In any case, deploring these convictions in Hawaii was an African-American poet and journalist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis, who was certainly in the orbit of the CP - if not a member - and who was born in Kansas and spent a good deal of his adult life in Chicago, before decamping to Honolulu in 1948 at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson. Eventually, he befriended another family - a Euro-American family - that had migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago. In his best selling memoir ‘Dreams of my Father', the author speaks warmly of an older black poet, he identifies simply as "Frank" as being a decisive influence in helping him to find his present identity as an African-American...
Horne predicted that:
At some point in the future, a teacher will add to her syllabus Barack's memoir and instruct her students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis' equally affecting memoir, Living the Blues, and when that day comes, I'm sure a future student will not only examine critically the Frankenstein monsters that US imperialism created in order to subdue Communist parties but will also be moved to come to this historic and wonderful archive in order to gain insight on what has befallen this complex and intriguing planet on which we reside. (Political Affairs magazine, a Marxist journal, republished the speech as "Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party." It is available at http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/1/32/.)
Better to be DEAD than RED
Frank Davis book; admits pervert, PEDOPHILE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066754/posts
What ELSE did Frank Marshall teach young Barry during those long evening of ‘sitting at his knee and drinking tea’??
Do you honestly thing young Barry escaped the clutches of an admitted pedophile?
Larry, where are you?
FMD: lecherous perverted scum of the earth decrepit facade of a man.
So Gramps selected him as a father-figure and role model: Grampa Dunham knew Davis quite well, yet he chose to take his lone grandson to the hell-hole where Davis lived and exposed young Barry to this worthless piece of drugged trash.
Poor Barry, this explains his worldview and why he hides his past and sports such an ambivalent disregard for the sanctity of life, decency, and society.
Agreed. This also gives legs to the Sinclair story.
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