The passage itself isn’t exactly free from controversial material. In it, Obama described how his worldview as a teenager held that “any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning,” inasmuch as they were all racist. <br /> <br />He also equates calling someone who held this worldview “paranoid” equivalent to calling him the n-word. <br /> <br />Frank Marshall Davis, of course, was a former member of the Communist Party USA who managed to earn a 600-page dossier of his activities from the FBI as well as a place on the bureau’s “security index,” essentially meaning he could have been arrested at any time. <br /> <br />Marshall’s poetry included one lovely passage where he called Jesus the n-word, as well. (H/T Red Flag News) <br /> <br />While Obama’s managed to keep his association with Frank Marshall Davis out of the spotlight for long enough to earn himself both election and re-election, one wonders how many Americans would have voted for Obama if this had been public knowledge in 2008. <br /> <br />Of course, this all was public knowledge, if you knew where to look. The media certainly did, but didn’t bother to inform us. <br /> <br />We’re all paying the price now.
