To understand Frank Marshall Davis’ influence on Barack Obama, watch the following video now:
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Jonathan Trenn
August 16, 2012
Ah yes, Frank Marshall Davis. The writer and author who advocated social justice and equality. He also worked in and around communist causes back in the 1930’s and 1940’s. That wasn’t uncommon for younger black social activists back then…there weren’t many organizations that actually took serious the tremendous discrimination and racism that blacks discovered. It was also a time where union organizers were beaten and murdered. This was still the time of lynchings and Emmitt Till.
Davis was born in 1905 and died in 1987. Obama had just turned 26. Sure…maybe Davis was an iconic figure to the young Obama as the future president was discovering his own racial identity having grown up overseas and in multiracial Hawaii.
For me, I deplore communism. Have done so since I was in high school and wrote a long report on Stalin’s Great Terror. But Davis evidently left this life behind as he went on live in Hawaii himself. His life experiences surely affected the way he thought. His blackness automatically shut him out of much of American life. Let’s remember that.
And this book stoops to portraying Obama’s long deceased mother as some sort of sluttish character? Somehow tied into Davis? Is the voice over of (presumably) Davis referring to Obama’s mother? Is that what this book is promoting?
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August 16, 2012
Hi Jonathan, One thing to note about Frank Marshall Davis is Obama mentions him 23 times in his autobiography Dreams for my Father. He had a huge influence on Obama and that fact is not well known by most people. Tomorrow’s post is from a classmate of O’s and continues to show his true philosophy. As Jim Collins says in his landmark book, Good to Great,” the facts are always friendly”. Also, if you are not a big fan of Communism, think twice about this if you consider voting for Obama.
Jonathan Trenn
August 17, 2012
Well, I’ll be continuing to comment and challenge you guys here and try to find more conservatives to connect you to. I’m a moderate, so I’m gonna be a pain in the ass.
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Ah yes, Frank Marshall Davis. The writer and author who advocated social justice and equality. He also worked in and around communist causes back in the 1930’s and 1940’s. That wasn’t uncommon for younger black social activists back then…there weren’t many organizations that actually took serious the tremendous discrimination and racism that blacks discovered. It was also a time where union organizers were beaten and murdered. This was still the time of lynchings and Emmitt Till.
Davis was born in 1905 and died in 1987. Obama had just turned 26. Sure…maybe Davis was an iconic figure to the young Obama as the future president was discovering his own racial identity having grown up overseas and in multiracial Hawaii.
For me, I deplore communism. Have done so since I was in high school and wrote a long report on Stalin’s Great Terror. But Davis evidently left this life behind as he went on live in Hawaii himself. His life experiences surely affected the way he thought. His blackness automatically shut him out of much of American life. Let’s remember that.
And this book stoops to portraying Obama’s long deceased mother as some sort of sluttish character? Somehow tied into Davis? Is the voice over of (presumably) Davis referring to Obama’s mother? Is that what this book is promoting?
Hi Jonathan, One thing to note about Frank Marshall Davis is Obama mentions him 23 times in his autobiography Dreams for my Father. He had a huge influence on Obama and that fact is not well known by most people. Tomorrow’s post is from a classmate of O’s and continues to show his true philosophy. As Jim Collins says in his landmark book, Good to Great,” the facts are always friendly”. Also, if you are not a big fan of Communism, think twice about this if you consider voting for Obama.
Well, I’ll be continuing to comment and challenge you guys here and try to find more conservatives to connect you to. I’m a moderate, so I’m gonna be a pain in the ass.