Loudon: Obama’s Mentor, Frank Marshall Davis — Was He Still a Communist?

October 16, 2008
The Obama File 37 Obama’s Mentor, Frank Marshall Davis- Was He Still a Communist? by Trevor Loudon, posted October 16, 2008, on his blog, The New Zeal, is cross-posted at RBO with the author’s permission. Loudon’s first Obama File was posted January 12, 2008.
Trevor writes: Since New Zeal first publicised the connection in March 2007, the late communist poet Frank Marshall Davis’s (left) relationship to Barack Obama has been the subject of thousands of articles, blog posts and talk back calls.
Obama’s apologists first attempted to minimise the Obama/Davis relationship. As evidence mounted however, it became apparent that Davis was indeed a mentor to Obama. The relationship lasted from 1970 when Obama was ten until he left Hawaii for college on the mainland at age 18.
Next the Obamaphiles tried to minimise Davis’s communism, portraying him as a benevolent civil rights activist and therefore, if anything, a positive influence on the young Obama.
Some have acknowledged that Davis did indeed briefly join the Communist Party in Chicago in the 1940s, but all that was well behind him by the time he met the young Obama.
As is common with Obama, the truth is distinct from the appearance.
Information from Davis’s 601 page FBI file reveals that Davis (born 1905) became interested in the Communist Party as far back as 1931. See full story here...