[Marxism] Dueling Redbaiters

[Bill O'Connor <billyoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

    ...
    Particularly grating to Obama supporters was Blumenthal's airing of AIM's
    allegation that Obama had sought to hide the influence a Communist mentor 
had on
    him as a young man. In his memoir, Dreams From My Father, Obama mentions a 
certain
    "Frank," a black poet friend of his white grandfather's who was a 
"contemporary of
    Richard Wright and Langston Hughes" and had once had "some notoriety." 
Frank gave
    the young Barack some "hard-earned knowledge" (such as that "black people 
have a
    reason to hate. That's just how it is"). As Obama set off for college, 
Frank told
    him that college was "an advanced degree in compromise" and that he should 
not
    "start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the 
American way."
    ...

    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/50717.html


Yeah, I know, I know, but a guy can dream, can't he?  <g>

________________________________________________
YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
Send list submissions to: Marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Set your options at: 
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40archives.econ.utah.edu