this is where "frank" comes in
"[A] Poet Named Frank Who Lived In A Dilapidated House In A Run-Down Section Of Waikiki. He Had Enjoyed Some Modest Notoriety Once, Was A Contemporary Of Richard Wright And Langston Hughes During His Years In Chicago…." (Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father, 1995, p. 76)
"frank" moved to hawaii in 1948 (stalin still leads ussr)
In The '70s, A By-Then-Elderly Davis Was A Friend Of Barack Obama's Grandfather And Would Proffer Advice To A Young Barry, As He Was Called Then." (John Heckathorn, "What The Heck?" Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 6/29/08)
http://www.ibdeditorials.c
A careful reading of Obama's first memoir, "Dreams From My Father," reveals that his childhood mentor up to the age of 18 — a man he refers to only as "Frank" — was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his "subversive," "un-American activities."
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As Obama was preparing to head off to college, he sat at Davis' feet in his Waikiki bungalow for bitter nightly bull sessions. Davis plied his impressionable guest with liberal shots of whiskey and advice, including: Never trust the white establishment.
"They'll train you so good," he said, "you'll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that sh**."
In the eyes of white America, Davis warned Obama: "You may be a well-trained, well-paid n*****, but you're a n***** just the same." He also nurtured anti-white hatred in his young mulatto subject, telling him, "Black people have a reason to hate."
this is what the Committee on Un-American Activities, U. S. House of Representatives said of "frank" on Oct 1, 1950 (stalin still leads ussr)
http://www.archive.org/str
Frank Marshall Davh^ author of a regular weekly column in the
Honolulu Record entitled "Frankly Speaking." Mr. Davis' column
defends Communists and attacks capitalism with the same vigor as
columns appearing regularly in the Daily Worker and other frankly
Communist publications. Typical of Mr. Davis' remarks are the
following :
Democracy today lies weak and slowly dying from the poison administered
by the divident doctors in Washington and Wall Street who have fooled a trusting public into believiag that they are the specialists who would save us from the
dread diseases of socialism and communism * ♦ * They hope to hand us
fascism disguised as the healed democracy (Honolulu Record, July 28, 1949, p. 8).
Mr. Davis constantly defended the 11 top United States Communist
officials recently convicted in New York on charges of conspiracy to
advocate the overthrow of the Government by force and violence.
One of Mr. Davis' comments on the case was as follows :
I feel strong sympathy for the Communist minority who are being oppressed
for their political beliefs (Honolulu Record, October 20, 1949, p. 6).
When Mr. Davis' column first appeared in the Record in May 1949,
the Record boasted that the author was a member of the national
executive board of the Civil Rights Congress. The organization is
cited as Communist by Attorney General Tom Clark as well as by the
Committee on Un-American Activities. Mr. Davis has signed a
number of statements in behalf of Communists under the sponsorship
of the Civil Rights Congress; one of these defended was Gerhart
Eisler, notorious Communist international agent who escaped jailing
for passport fraud by fleeing to the Soviet sector of Germany.
Other front organizations of the Communist Party with which Mr.
Davis has associated include : American Youth for Democracy, Abra-
ham Lincoln School, National Federation for Constitutional Liber-
ties, League of American Writers, the National Negro Congress, and
the Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee.
so basicly, the guy was brought up by stalinists during his childhood - explains alot
2 comments:
Ah, so wrong, so wrong! Why do you post that Obama was mentored by Frank Marshall Davis? Because conservative firebrand Cliff Kincaid said so? "Dreams From My Father" belies that claim.
Although Obama's book indicates "Frank" offered him advice on racial issues, Obama wrote that Davis "fell short" and his views were "incurable." Obama did not even visit Davis for three years before going to college. Obama's book, itself, proves that Obama did not consider Davis to be a "wise and trusted counselor," which is the definition of "mentor." But what creative definition can Davis be considered his "mentor"?
As a retired Air Force Intelligence Officer with specific training in Deception Analysis by the C.I.A. in 1989, I am researching political disinformation. I am familiar with disinformation campaigns, starting with Operation Fortitude protecting the D-Day invasion, through Operation Left Hook protecting the coalition drive into Kuwait, and deconstructing “deliberate misrepresentation” of the Iraqi threat this century. The disinformation in this post follows the pattern of classic disinformation campaigns.
I've gone through "Dreams" and never found the inflammatory quote posted in the original article: Frank telling Obama "never trust" anyone, much less the white establishment. I googled and could not find any empirical evidence that this is an accurate quote. The book is posted online http://issuu.com/xinyangge/docs/obama_barack_-_dreams_from_my_father).
But the fact remains that Obama felt that Davis "fell short" and his views were "incurable." This entirely refutes any claim that he was Obama's mentor.
There is a mountain of disinformation regarding the Obama-Davis relationship. This is hardly the tip of the iceberg!
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