POEMS, POETS, RHYMES AND POETRY

By Cliff Kincaid Jon Meacham writes in Newsweek that Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was “a strong voice for racial justice” and political activist whose “writings on civil-rights and labor issues” had “prompted a McCarthyite denunciation by the House Un-American Activities Committee.” Meacham is suggesting that Davis was the target of false allegations that he was a communist. While he agrees that Davis was one of Obama’s mentors, Meacham’s handling of the communism angle is about as d

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