http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=reason-to-hate-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-racist-roots- The morning after Election Day, 2008, The New York Times proclaimed that Barack Obama’s victory had swept “away the last racial barrier in American politics.” However, as the President’s first term draws to a close, a case can be made that the historic election was anything but post-racial; rather, it has been the most racially polarizing presidency in modern times. This is not a surprise, however, to those familiar with Obama’s background and thinking on racial matters, nor to those who have studied the role played by Communist Frank Marshall Davis in raising him as a young man in Hawaii during his critical coming of age period. Davis was not only a slavish follower of Joseph Stalin, but a black racist who saw sinister white plots in the foreign policies of the United States and other Western nations. Davis, a poet and writer, had written a controversial poem, “Christ is a Dixie Nigger,” dismissing the object of the Christian faith as “another New White Hope.”Young_Barack_Obama Obama’s own book, Dreams from My Father, talks about asking “Frank” for advice when his white grandmother had been accosted by a black panhandler. Davis told Obama that his grandmother was right to be scared and that “She understands that black people have reason to hate.” Paul Kengor’s new book, The Communist. Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor, examines the Davis mentality and ideology which shaped Obama in more detail. As Kengor’s book documents, Davis: Considered American racism a “disease” that “Red Russia” had solved Wrote in a column on July 20, 1946, that the Soviet Union had, “in less than a generation,” abolished “discrimination and racism” Wrote that “the only people” Winston Churchill cared about were “the white people of the British empire” Labeled the Marshall Plan for Western Europe after World War II a form of white imperialism, designed to “help ma... Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:15:56 EDT en http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=reason-to-hate-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-racist-roots-#c11449 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:24:32 EDT Pernicious 2 11449 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=reason-to-hate-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-racist-roots-#c11448 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:13:39 EDT Mortis 1 11448 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=reason-to-hate-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-racist-roots-#c11447 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:10:00 EDT Pernicious 2 11447 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=reason-to-hate-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-racist-roots-#c11446 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 05:57:51 EDT Mortis 2 11446 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=reason-to-hate-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-racist-roots-#c11445 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 05:40:25 EDT Pernicious 2 11445 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=reason-to-hate-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-racist-roots-#c11443 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 05:35:24 EDT Mortis 1 11443 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=reason-to-hate-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-racist-roots-#c11440 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:51:42 EDT Pernicious 2 11440 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=reason-to-hate-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-racist-roots-#c11436 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:31:42 EDT Fender Stratocaster 2 11436 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=reason-to-hate-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-racist-roots-#c11435 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:19:54 EDT Pernicious 4 11435