[TigerClaws]

Perhaps the family name was changed for political reasons. Lot of political chaos (mass murders) taking place at that time in Indonesia.

The Ann/Anna issue. This was a girl named Stanley. Could be she hated the name (Stanley or Stannie I’ve heard was the nickname she used) and when she got older she tried to go to her middle name.

[little jeremiah]

Read the last few pages of the thread. An “old friend” says that she used the name Stanley or Stannie, did not use the name Ann. No evidence whatsoever that she ever used the name “Anna”.

[Fred Nerks]

Perhaps the family name was changed for political reasons. Lot of political chaos (mass murders) taking place at that time in Indonesia.

Lots of friends in high places. There are sites that indicate Sukarno invited Malcolm X to attend the BANDUNG CONFERENCE in 1955...and visited MX in the US; they were friends until MX was assassinated. And who writes about the Conference? RICHARD WRIGHT. An associate of FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, they worked together while both were in Chicago.

BANDUNG RICHARD WRIGHT. LINK

THE LEGACY OF THE BANDUNG CONFERENCE.LINK

The Ann/Anna issue. This was a girl named Stanley. Could be she hated the name (Stanley or Stannie I’ve heard was the nickname she used) and when she got older she tried to go to her middle name.

Ann, according to Neil Abercrombie. Ann S Obama, according to the Hawaii Polk. Anna Obama, according to Charlette Le Fevre, OBAMA Stanley Ann Dunham, according to the U of HI transcript...there are more...so I think it's just a little more complicated than not liking her first name.

IT'S SIMPLE, ISN'T IT?