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==The future of the Communist party and Barack Obama==
==The future of the Communist party and Barack Obama==
===Communist Party===
After [[Khrushchev|Khrushchev's Secret Speech]] another generation of loyal Communists were again confronted with the enormity of Stalin's crimes. As [[Ann Coulter]] stated, Sen. [[Joseph McCarthy]] "made it a disgrace to be a Communist."<ref>Coulter, Ann ''Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism''©2003 Crown Forum, New York, New York, pp. 1-2</ref> Singer [[Paul Robeson]] remained a lifelong denier of the Stalinist holocaust. Davis in his 1963 interview with FBI Special Agent Leo Brenneisen appears to offer some second thoughts about his work for the Soviet Union. Davis states he would "consort with the devil to gain his end," and his end was the fight against racial discrimination.
After [[Khrushchev|Khrushchev's Secret Speech]] another generation of loyal Communists were again confronted with the enormity of Stalin's crimes. As [[Ann Coulter]] stated, Sen. [[Joseph McCarthy]] "made it a disgrace to be a Communist."<ref>Coulter, Ann ''Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism''©2003 Crown Forum, New York, New York, pp. 1-2</ref> Singer [[Paul Robeson]] remained a lifelong denier of the Stalinist holocaust. Davis in his 1963 interview with FBI Special Agent Leo Brenneisen appears to offer some second thoughts about his work for the Soviet Union. Davis states he would "consort with the devil to gain his end," and his end was the fight against racial discrimination.
===Obama===
In Barack Obama's ''Dreams from my Father'', the author disguises the identity of an old man named "Frank" whose struggles the author identifies with.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=HRCHJp-V0QUC&pg=PA97&dq=manipulate+words+so+they+don%27t+mean+anything+anymore#v=onepage&q=manipulate%20words%20so%20they%20don't%20mean%20anything%20anymore&f=false ''Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance''], By Barack Obama, Random House, 2007, pp. 97, 220.</ref> In 2007 Prof. Gerald Horne outed the identity of "Frank" at a Communist party gathering and published in an article entitled, ''Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party'':
In Barack Obama's ''Dreams from my Father'', the author disguises the identity of an old man named "Frank" whose struggles the author identifies with.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=HRCHJp-V0QUC&pg=PA97&dq=manipulate+words+so+they+don%27t+mean+anything+anymore#v=onepage&q=manipulate%20words%20so%20they%20don't%20mean%20anything%20anymore&f=false ''Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance''], By Barack Obama, Random House, 2007, pp. 97, 220.</ref> In 2007 Prof. Gerald Horne outed the identity of "Frank" at a Communist party gathering and published in an article entitled, ''Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party'':
<blockquote>At some point in the future, a teacher will add to her syllabus Barack’s memoir and instruct her students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis’ equally affecting memoir...when that day comes...a future student will ...examine critically the Frankenstein monsters that US imperialism created in order to subdue Communist parties..."<ref>[http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/ Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party], By Gerald Horne, ''Political Affairs magazine, March 28, 2007.</ref></blockquote>
In a 1995 video, unearthed in 2015, Obama admits that the "Frank" mentioned in his book is in fact Davis. Obama said:<ref>[http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/04/obama-admits-communist-schooled-him-on-white-racism/ Obama Admits Communist "Schooled" him on White Racism]</ref>
<blockquote>The passage finally ends 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.</blockquote>
There is no evidence Davis ever abandoned his commitment to what [[Allen Weinstein]] described as "a murderous and discredited ideology." In 1999 it was reported 3 million [[North Korea]]ns starved to death<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/281132.stm North Korea 'loses 3 million to famine'], [[BBC]], February 17, 1999.</ref> in the Socialist workers paradise Davis so cherished while others were eating grass to survive.<ref>{{Citation
There is no evidence Davis ever abandoned his commitment to what [[Allen Weinstein]] described as "a murderous and discredited ideology." In 1999 it was reported 3 million [[North Korea]]ns starved to death<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/281132.stm North Korea 'loses 3 million to famine'], [[BBC]], February 17, 1999.</ref> in the Socialist workers paradise Davis so cherished while others were eating grass to survive.<ref>{{Citation