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Particularly confusing was Davis and the American Communists approach to the civil rights movement.
". . .Communists, including Frank Marshall Davis, used the civil-rights movement, and again and again exploited and undermined the NAACP. Romerstein lays this out at length in his report. He quotes Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, who rightly noted of Davis and his comrades: “they would now destroy the local branch of the NAACP.” They would do so after having destroyed another good civil-rights organization. “Comrade Davis,” wrote Wilkins, “was supported by others who recently `sneaked’ into the organization with the avowed intent and purpose of converting it into a front for the Stalinist line.” Wilkins knew well that this was a standard “tactic” by the communists; it was known by everyone involved in the NAACP at the time. Wilkins, like many civil-rights leaders of his time, refused to be duped by Davis and his comrades. Media defensiveness about Obama and his Communist associations : Stop The ACLU
Sorry to burst your bubble again, but the report you cited, linked to a column written by Paul Kengor, is also wrong.
Paul Kengor's column, "Return of the Dupes and the Anti-Anti-Communists," was posted on the Cliff Kincaid's Accuracy In Media website on June 17, 2008 (see http://www.aim.org/guest-column/return-of-the-dupes-and-the-anti-anti-communists/ (broken link)), and the American Thinker website on June 13. It cites a report by Herb Romerstein for Kincaid's America's Survival, Inc., titled "Communism In Hawaii and the Obama Connection" (see http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/hawaii-obama.pdf) (broken link). Based on Romerstein's report, Kengor states in his column:
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Finally, if that doesn’t concern liberals, they should understand how communists, including Frank Marshall Davis, used the civil-rights movement, and again and again exploited and undermined the NAACP. Romerstein lays this out at length in his report. He quotes Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, who rightly noted of Davis and his comrades: “they would now destroy the local branch of the NAACP.” They would do so after having destroyed another good civil-rights organization. “Comrade Davis,” wrote Wilkins, “was supported by others who recently ‘sneaked’ into the organization with the avowed intent and purpose of converting it into a front for the Stalinist line.” Wilkins knew well that this was a standard “tactic” by the communists; it was known by everyone involved in the NAACP at the time. Wilkins, like many civil-rights leaders of his time, refused to be duped by Davis and his comrades.
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Unfortunately, the Romerstein report at America’s Survival (page 17) directly contradicts Kengor's column. Romerstein does NOT quote Roy Wilkins of the NAACP regarding Davis. Instead, Romerstein quotes a letter written TO Roy Wilkins by a rookie Honolulu NAACP board member named Edward Berman. Falsely attributing these remarks to Wilkins greatly enhanced their credibility, because Wilkins had a reputation of denouncing communists within the civil rights movement. I can find no evidence in Romerstein's report that Wilkins had ANY opinion of Davis.
Berman was a Caucasian attorney member of the executive committee of the Honolulu branch, who had just joined the previous year, and who believed there was NO segregation in Hawaii. One need only look at Niihau to disprove his assertion. Although segregation was on a much smaller scale than in the mainland, it did exist. Some landlords would not rent to members of certain ethnic groups. With an ongoing power struggle within the Honolulu NAACP, Berman’s objectivity, motivation and credibility are questionable.
Berman’s letter is dated September 26, 1949. On November 14, 1949 the NAACP voted to revoke the charter of the Honolulu Branch for “conduct inimical to the best interest of the NAACP.”
Is falsely attributing the remarks of a haole rookie to Roy Wilkins “deliberate misrepresentation”?
But the evidence is compelling that he is a part of the radical left influenced by the Marxist teachings of his mother, Frank Marshall Davis and Jerimiah Wright.
What "compelling" evidence do you have that he was influenced by the "Marxist teachings" of Davis"? More disinformation? See Barack Obama | Mark Davis's Blog
This group is for self-proclaimed Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency. By no means is he a true Marxist, but under Karl Marx's writings we are to support the party with the best interests of the mobilization of the proletariat. Though the Democratic Socialists of America or the Communist Patty of America may have more Socialististic values, it is pointless to vote for these candidates due to the fact that there is virutally no chance they will be elected on a National level. The members of this group are not Leninists, Stalinists, etc. and do not support or condone the actions of North Korea, China, Cuba or any other self-procalimed "Marxist States." They do not in anyway represent the Marxist philosophy nor do they represent Socialism/ Communsim. We support Barack Obama because he knows what is best for the people!
Major Minor, I think you need some new aluminum foil, the old hat is starting to fall apart.
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