II: Columbia University and Recruitment by Zbigniew Brzezinski 41instruct her students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis’ equally affecting memoir, Living the
Blues and when that day comes, I’m sure a future student will not only examine critically the
Frankenstein monsters that US imperialism created in order to subdue Communist parties but will
also be moved to come to this historic and wonderful archive in order to gain insight on what has
befallen this complex and intriguing planet on which we reside,” he said.
Dr. Kathryn Takara, a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii at
Manoa agrees that Davis is the “Frank” in Obama’s book. Takara wrote her dissertation on Davis
and interviewed him frequently between 1972 and 1987, before Davis died. Takara concludes that
Davis demonstrated “an acute sense of race relations and class struggle throughout America and the
world.” For her, Davis was a “socialist realist.” Davis had been urged by Paul Robeson and Harry
Bridges, the pro-CPUSA head of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), to
become a columnist for the Honolulu Record where he could work to advance the communist cause.
Takara sums up Davis’s program at that time as “freedom, radicalism, solidarity, labor unions, due
process, peace, affirmative action, civil rights, Negro History week, and true Democracy to fight
imperialism, colonialism, and white supremacy. He urged coalition politics.”
COMMUNIST PARTY USA: OBAMA IS MARX’S OLD MOLE OF REVOLUTION
To advance this ideological Walpurgisnacht to an even more monstrous level, the CPUSA
organ, People’s World Weekly, recently published a letter from CPUSA supporter Frank Chapman
gloating over Obama’s victory in the Iowa caucuses. Chapman commented: “Obama’s victory was
more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of
struggle. ... Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes
burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is
the old revolutionary ‘mole,’ not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through.”
(Cliff Kincaid, “Obama’s Communist Mentor,” Accuracy in Media, February 18, 2008) The
CPUSA has formally endorsed Obama for the presidency.
Obama may well have learned a lot more from Davis than dialectical materialism. There are
indications scattered across the internet that Davis was bisexual. Officially he was married to Helen
Canfield David of Chicago, reportedly a woman of some social standing.^11 If Obama’s mentor of
those years in fact had homosexual proclivities, this would be significant in explaining the later
bisexual features of Obama’s life.
Shortly before leaving Hawaii to go to Occidental College, Obama experiences one of his many
racial epiphanies when he learns that his grandmother Toot has been frightened in the street by a
black man whom she suspects of being a mugger. Obama recounts that when he heard of this
incident, “the words were like a fist in my stomach, and I wobbled to regain my composure. In my
steadiest voice, I told [Gramps] that such an attitude bothered me, too, but assured him that Toot’s
fears would pass and that we should give her a ride in the meantime. [...] after they left, I sat on the
edge of my bed and thought about my grandparents. They had sacrificed again and again for me.
They had poured all their lingering hopes into my success. Never had they given me reason to
doubt their love; I doubted if they ever would. And yet I knew that men who might easily have
been my brothers could still inspire their rawest fears.” (Dreams 89) When it comes to matters of
race, we have already learned that Obama is jumpy as an eyeball, and here his racial
hypersensitivity is displayed once again. In recent years, we have had many illustrious
representatives of the American black community come forward to acknowledge that they, too, are
sometimes uneasy when they are approached by aggressive black panhandlers in the streets.