The Communist singer who gave America Obama
Whenever I speak in public, one of the most frequent questions I’m asked is this: “Ellis, how can the majority of black people vote for the Democratic Party for over 50 years and at 96-98 percent for Obama in 2008 and 2012?”
Moviemaker Joel Gilbert, in his outstanding film, “Dreams from my Real Father,” exposes the systematic brainwashing of black America in historical terms:
“In 1930s Chicago, CPUSA recruited journalists to help spread Soviet influence in American public opinion. Frank Marshall Davis was one of them. A graduate of Kansas State Journalism School, Frank Marshall Davis joined the Communist Party and began writing for The Chicago Star. He was a colleague of journalist Vernon Jarrett, father-in-law of Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett. Davis also taught at Chicago’s Abraham Lincoln School, a Communist-run training school run by CPUSA. …”
In the late 1920s, Paul Robeson introduced Davis to a Marxist/socialist worldview when they first met in Chicago.
Who was Paul Robeson? Professor Paul Kengor’s revelatory new book, “The Communist,” in a Chapter 4 section subtitled “Paul Robeson’s Red Carpet,” tells us:
Born in April 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey, Paul L. Robeson was the son of a Protestant minister. He attended Rutgers University, where he was a standout athlete. … He went on to attend Columbia Law School.
Columbia was the worst possible choice for Robeson. The university was the single most radical school in America, with a disturbingly strong communist presence. A young man like, for example, Whittaker Chambers, could enter Columbia a devout traditional Republican and leave a raving leftist atheist who ended up a Soviet spy at the center of the most dramatic Cold War case of the 20th century.
Robeson arrived about the same time as Chambers, yet his hard turn left came a decade later, in the 1930s, as many progressives stood in rapturous awe at the Soviet experiment. Among them, George Bernard Shaw is credited with having helped prompt Robeson, asking him during a 1928 lunch what he thought of socialism. Robeson innocently conceded he had “never really thought about socialism.”
Not long after that, Robeson began thinking quite a bit about socialism. After publicly denouncing the “modern white American,” Robeson found himself suddenly invited to the USSR, and earnestly accepted. He made the pilgrimage in December 1934.
Robeson’s voyage came amid Stalin’s notorious famines and Great Purge, but the political pilgrim was carefully shielded from such misery. His gracious hosts rolled out the red carpet, regaling Robeson with (in his words) … “nights at the opera,” “gala banquets,” “private screenings,” “trips to hospitals, children’s centers,” and “factories” – “all in the context of a warm embrace.”
It was the typical charade. When communist propagandists find a target, they do not easily relent, whether it is a target they want to demonize or one they want to canonize. In Robeson, they saw usefulness in the latter. And so, that December 1934, the Soviets held a reception in Robeson’s honor, at which he was hailed by the emcee with this magnificent introduction: “This is Paul Robeson, the greatest American singer!”
The comrades clapped enthusiastically, as Robeson blushed and bowed. The boys back-slapped and drank until 2 a.m. It was a night to remember, a political romance to never forget.
Kengor refers to Robeson as a “Potemkin Progressive” who, like many famous American progressives in the mid-1930s, had severe misunderstandings of things Soviet and Stalin and effectively used their public notoriety to increase their misinformation to a grand, diabolical extent. Separate from Potemkin Progressives like John Dewey, George Bernard Shaw, the Columbia faculty and countless numbers of other deceived leftists, Robeson would be the most significant deceiver in the life, philosophy and vocation of Frank Marshall Davis. Robeson accepted the Stalinist line so completely that he went to his grave as a fervent agent of communism.
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I thought I knew all there was to know after watching Joel Gilberts DVD. Mr Washington here does an excellent job of setting the stage for “Dreams of My Real Fathers Friend!” How can there be so many dots and no one dares draw the lines that connect except a few intrepid jounalists. Thank you.
I thought I knew all there was to know after watching Joel Gilberts DVD. Mr Washington here does an excellent job of setting the stage for “Dreams of My Real Fathers Friend!” How can there be so many dots and no one dares draw the lines that connect except a few intrepid jounalists. Thank you.
I thought I knew all there was to know after watching Joel Gilberts DVD. Mr Washington here does an excellent job of setting the stage for “Dreams of My Real Fathers Friend!” How can there be so many dots and no one dares draw the lines that connect except a few intrepid jounalists. Thank you.