President Barack Obama has
long fought to minimize his association with his mentor during his teens, known
communist Frank
Marshall Davis.
In his book “Dreams From
My Father,” the future president refused to refer to his mentor as anything
other than “Frank.” In the audiobook version of “Dreams,” Obama went
further and excised all references to “Frank.”
President Barack Obama has
long fought to minimize his association with his mentor during his teens, known
communist Frank
Marshall Davis.
In his book “Dreams From
My Father,” the future president refused to refer to his mentor as anything
other than “Frank.” In the audiobook version of “Dreams,” Obama went
further and excised all references to “Frank.”
However, thanks to the
Internet, things are seldom buried forever. In this clip from 1995, the future
president is on his book tour at the Cambridge Public Library. He’s not only
open about just who “Frank” is, he talks about how the man “schooled” him on
how racist white people were.
The clip below shows
Obama’s stunning admission.
As he goes into his
reading, he explains that the portion is about “me having a conversation
with a close friend of my maternal grandfather, a close friend of gramps, a
black man from Kansas, named Frank, actually at the time a fairly well-known
poet named Frank
Marshall Davis, who had moved to Hawaii and lived there.
The passage itself isn’t
exactly free from controversial material. In it, Obama
described how his worldview as a teenager held that “any distinction
between good and bad whites held negligible meaning,” inasmuch as they were all
racist.
He also equates calling
someone who held this worldview “paranoid” equivalent to calling him the
n-word.
Frank
Marshall Davis, of course, was a former member of the Communist Party USA
who managed to earn a 600-page dossier of his activities from the FBI as
well as a place on the bureau’s “security index,” essentially meaning he could
have been arrested at any time.
Marshall’s poetry included
one lovely passage where he called Jesus the n-word, as well. (H/T Red Flag News)
While Obama’s managed to
keep his association with Frank
Marshall Davis out of the spotlight for long enough to earn himself both
election and re-election, one wonders how many Americans would have voted for
Obama if this had been public knowledge in 2008.
Of course, this all was public knowledge, if you knew
where to look. The media certainly did, but didn’t bother to inform the people.
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