Dreams From My Father Analysis

“Barack Obama was born of Communist activists, mentored by a communist writer and activist, spent his college days hanging around radical activists, worked as a radical community organizer...kept contact with radicals through the years, attends a radical church, and today lends his political skill to the international goals of radical activists, and has radicals working on his campaign…” This is just one example of the countless allegations about President Barack Obama’s supposed involvement with the Communist Party. Most of these allegations stem from the mention of a person named “Frank” in Obama’s touching memoir, Dreams From My Father. In his memoir, Obama discusses a few encounters with “Frank,” who has been found to be Frank Marshall …show more content…
Davis was told by his friend, actor Paul Robeson (accused of being a communist by the House Un-American Activities Committee) that people in Hawaii would be more accepting of interracial marriages. Davis quickly befriended Stanley Dunham, Barack Obama’s maternal grandfather. Dunham introduced Obama to Davis when Obama was ten years old. Obama was one of the few African American students attending his school, and began to feel out of place amongst his classmates. Obama’s family thought it was beneficial for him to meet someone who was also African American. In the words of Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s half-sister, Dunham saw Davis as “a point of connection, a bridge if you will, to the larger African-American experience for my brother.” Furthermore, Obama writes about his visits with Davis, which usually took place at points in his life in which he was grappling with issues surrounding race. Obama writes about a lesson he learned from Davis as he was preparing to leave for college in 1979: “Leaving your race at the door. Leaving your people behind. Understand something, boy. You’re not going to college to get educated. You’re going there to get trained...they’ll tank on your chain and let you know that you may be a well-trained, well-paid nigger, but you’re a nigger just the same.” This opened Obama’s eyes to some of the discrimination and judgment he would receive moving

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