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« on: July 28, 2009, 07:59:26 pm »

Was Frank Marshall Davis Obama’s Father?

 

In Davis’ autobiography he writes of his seduction of a young white girl, age 13, named “Anne.” This fuels speculation that the “Anne” in Davis’ book is Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, and that Obama may be the child of Frank Marshall Davis. Obama’s grandfather and Davis were close friends, but there is no known evidence that Obama’s father was Davis. When Ann Dunham moved to Hawaii with her parents in 1960 she was already age 17. Davis had known the Dunhams in Kansas, however, so Davis would have had contact with Ann Dunham before she moved to Hawaii. The Dunhams also lived in Seattle, where Ann Dunham attended Mercer Island High School. There is speculation that Davis had been in Seattle doing organizing work for the communist-infiltrated International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), and that would have placed Davis with Dunham when she was about 13. The ILWU is linked to the Honolulu Record, the newspaper Davis worked for in Hawaii. **** photos of a woman purported to be Ann Dunham and alleged to have been taken by Frank Marshall Davis are circulating on the Internet, but faked photos are not terribly difficult to produce using computers and can thus be the work of simple mischief-makers. (Or the photos may simply be of a young woman who resembled Dunham.) [21, 259, 260, 365, 370, 389, 2291]

            The Davis-as-father speculation is listed here only to provide the reader with as much information as possible about Obama’s background; it is not meant as an endorsement of the speculation itself.

            Some have noted that Frank Marshall Davis’ son, Mark Davis, bears a reasonable resemblance to candidate Obama (and what some would consider a much stronger resemblance than shared by Obama Jr. and Obama Sr.). The mother of Mark Davis, Helen Canfield, was, like Ann Dunham, a white woman. One might speculate that Obama’s father was not Barack Obama, Sr., but Frank Marshall Davis. Because Davis and Ann Dunham could certainly not have let such a relationship be known (Davis was black, married, and age 55; Dunham was white, single, and only 17; and Davis was Stanley Dunham’s close friend), Dunham may have tried to convince Obama, Sr. that he was the father-to-be. When he later learned that was not the case, he abruptly left Dunham, moved on to Harvard, and then returned to Kenya. There has been speculation that Dunham and Obama, Sr. never lived together in Hawaii; this is supported by the fact that Obama, Sr. continued to attend the University of Hawaii while Dunham attended the University of Washington during late 1961 and early 1962, before she returned to Hawaii to attend UH again. [369, 408]

            If the Davis-as-father speculation is true Dunham may have continued the lie for the benefit of her son and her parents. Davis would later be eager to be Obama’s mentor if he was, in fact, Obama’s father. Obama may not even have learned the identity of his father for some time, perhaps not until after the death of his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, in 1992. It was not until after his grandfather’s death that Obama began work on his book, Dreams From My Father. At that point, he may have understood who his real father was. His book needed to include the Kenyan history in order to continue the charade for the sake of his family and his planned political career, but the “dreams” Obama needed to pursue perhaps had more to do with a continuation of Davis’ legacy than those of an unaccomplished alcoholic bureaucrat in Kenya. It is worth noting also that Obama’s reluctance—if not outright refusal—to give financial support to his poverty-stricken half-brother George Obama in a Nairobi slum or to his destitute aunt living in Boston public housing may be due to his knowing that they are not in fact related to him. This is speculation based only on circumstantial evidence; the disclosure of appropriate original documentation by Obama would resolve unanswered questions and end speculation. [369]

 

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