Obama has known a lot of radical people, but his response is always that there wasn't anything to it.
Relationship between Davis and Barack Obama
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In his autobiographical Dreams from My Father, U.S. Senator and Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama wrote about "Frank", a friend of his grandfather's. "Frank" told Obama that he and Stanley (Obama's maternal grandfather) both had grown up only 50 miles apart, near Wichita, although they did not meet until Hawaii. He described the way race relations were back then, including Jim Crow, and his view that there had been little progress since then. As Obama remembered, "It made me smile, thinking back on Frank and his old Black Power, dashiki self. In some ways he was as incurable as my mother, as certain in his faith, living in the same sixties time warp that Hawaii had created."[14]
Gerald Horne, a Communist Party historian and contributing editor of Political Affairs, claims that "Frank" was Davis, and further claimed he was a "decisive influence" on Obama.[15] Similar claims were made about Davis in the anti-Obama book The Obama Nation.[16]
A rebuttal to The Obama Nation released by Obama's presidential campaign, titled Unfit for Publication, confirms that "Frank" was, in fact, Frank Marshall Davis, but disputes claims made about the nature of their relationship.[17]
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