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story told by Gerald Horne, contributing editor of Political Affairs, a
magazine published by the Communist Party, USA. Speaking March 28,
2007 at the dedication of the Communist Party, USA archive at New York
University Tamiment Library, Horne traces the downward spiral of
fortune for Communists in the latter half of the twentieth century.
But in the closing paragraphs of his speech, Horne suddenly becomes
hopeful, pointing to the arrival of what Obama might describe as "the
ones we have been waiting for."
"...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 (Communist Party) -- 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 (and Communist Party member) 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...." - American Thinker cont.
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