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ANN KENEVAN on May 6, 2025

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Obama's early mentors and allies shared hostility toward West Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate After Barack Obama was sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents at age 10, his grandfather introduced him to a black man named Frank Marshall Davis, who had a long career of anti-American, ... View MoreObama's early mentors and allies shared hostility toward West Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate After Barack Obama was sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents at age 10, his grandfather introduced him to a black man named Frank Marshall Davis, who had a long career of anti-American, anti-white propaganda that included a stint as a member of the Communist Party. Davis was Obama’s mentor on race throughout his adolescent years, until Obama left for college. The progression of such mentors and like-minded contemporaries continued as Obama went through Occidental College, Columbia University and the Harvard Law School. These included professor Edward Said at Columbia, a spokesman for Palestinian terrorists, and professor Derrick Bell at the Harvard Law School. Bell was an advocate of “critical race theory” — an uncritical mishmash of notions by a man who said that he saw his role as deliberately annoying white people. Barack Obama literally embraced Bell at a public gathering. After Obama went out into the world and worked for a time in a private business, he regarded himself as being, in his own words, “a spy behind enemy lines.” Later, when he began his political career by running for state office in Illinois, his campaign began with a fundraiser in the home of Bill Ayers, who had been a domestic terrorist who planted bombs in public places, including the Pentagon. When this association was later revealed, Obama said that he was still a child during Ayers’ years as a terrorist. But Obama was by no means still a child when Ayers defended his years of terrorism in a statement that appeared in The New York Times — ironically, on Sept. 11, 2001. This is not the Barack Obama that most voters saw and elected president of the United States in 2008. What they saw was a carefully crafted image of a bright, articulate, energetic and genial fellow who would heal our racial and partisan divides. His likability was high and remained so, even after many became disappointed with his policies. https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/cartoons/2012/09/28/obama-s-early-mentors-allies/24020330007/

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Obama's early mentors and allies shared hostility toward West www.dispatch.com

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