VIDEO: Newly Unearthed Footage Shows Obama Confirming ‘Frank’ Is Frank Marshall Davis

by Greg Campbell | April 16, 2015 7:49 pm

For years, the Obamas have remained cagey on who “Frank” is- the committed radical mentioned in his autobiography who mentored young Barack in the ways of radical racial divisiveness and race-hustling. Though it has widely been accepted that “Frank” was Frank Marshall Davis, a committed communist and devout racist, now, according to a report from Western Journalism[1], footage has emerged with Obama admitting to Frank’s identity.

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In his 1995 book, Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama never discussed the identity of the mysterious “Frank” who had given him important advice on growing up black in what was described as a white racist world. We learned in 2008 that “Frank” was Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Communist Party who was the subject of a 600-page FBI file. Still, the major media never asked Obama about this important relationship during his growing up years in Hawaii.

Now, in an extraordinary development, video of Obama explicitly and openly identifying “Frank” as Frank Marshall Davis has suddenly surfaced on the Internet. The footage is said to have been recorded on September 20, 1995, with the program originally airing on Channel 37 Cambridge Municipal Television as an episode of the show, The Author Series.

It’s not clear how many saw this program when it aired. For some reason, this “From the Vault” Barack Obama presentation[3] was just recently posted on YouTube. In the video, Obama is introduced as a Harvard Law School student and President of the Harvard Law Review. He discusses “Frank” as Frank Marshall Davis at about 8:37 in the video.

In his remarks, Obama never identifies Davis as a communist or even a leftist. But the remarks do reflect the significant influence that Davis had over his young life as he was growing up in Hawaii. Obama talks about how Davis “schools” him on the subject of race relations. The term implies a teacher-student relationship the two of them had, confirming what we had reported[4] back in 2008 — that Davis had functioned as Obama’s “mentor.”

It’s important to understand what Obama is saying here. Getting ready to read directly from his book,Dreams from My Father, Obama talks about the passages ending with “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, and so I have a discussion with him about the kinds of frustrations I’m having, and he sort of schools me that I should get used to these frustrations…”

Davis was indeed a black poet. His works included attacks on Christianity. One Davis poem referred to Christ irreverently as a “nigger.” Davis was himself an atheist.

However, Davis was better known as a communist propagandist whose work for the Communist Party in Hawaii earned him surveillance by the FBI and placement on its “security index.” Davis was also a pornographer who engaged in bizarre sexual practices, even pedophilia.

To put into context, discovering that our current president served as a protégé to such a man as Davis is every bit as unsettling as if one were to discover that George W. Bush had been mentored for decades by Sam Bowers or David Duke.

Though we know precious little about his past and his deep-rooted ideology, Americans shrugged-off this troublesome thought and elected Obama not once, but twice.

Endnotes:
  1. Western Journalism: http://www.westernjournalism.com/newly-unearthed-footage-shows-obama-confirming-frank-is-frank-marshall-davis/
  2. [Image]: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ZObamafrank-e1429227963242.jpg
  3. “From the Vault” Barack Obama presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5JlqDnoqlo
  4. we had reported: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/

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