Here's a stunner--the mainstream media finally takes official notice of Obama's childhood mentor, "Frank", a friend and poet that he mentions occasionally in his autobiography.
Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life :
At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his opinions. He once argued that the public schools of his youth prepared neither blacks nor whites for "life in a multiracial, democratic nation." He called hypocrisy "a national trait of American whites." Advocating civil rights amid segregation, Davis wrote in 1949: "I refuse to settle for anything less than all the rights which are due me under the Constitution."The depth of the influence Davis had on the presumptive Democratic nominee is a question. While Davis' leftist politics could allow the candidate's critics to group Davis with Obama friends and acquaintances with allegedly anti-American views, those who knew Davis and his work say his activism was aimed squarely at social injustice.
Now, the article doesn't go so far as to mention that Davis was a member of the Communist Party, but it's a start.
Here's the thing, though: Frank Marshall Davis's role in Obama's life has been common knowledge in the blogosphere for at least a year. Yet there hasn't been a mention of it in the mainstream media until now. Search the NY Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and the only mention you'll see of Frank Marshall Davis is this AP article from today.
Obviously, Obama's relationship with Davis has been ignored. It's hard to perpetuate the myth that Obama's a moderate centrist who reaches across the aisle when all his buddies throughout his life come from the radical left.
So the mainstream media has not seen fit to mention Frank Marshall Davis, and suddenly, out of nowhere, this pops up on the AP?
Could it be related to Obama's attempt to distance himself from the reparations issue? Or is something else about to break?
Why now?
Aug 2, 08 09:57 AM