So he wasn’t hand picked from an early age?
Just asking.
He was brainwashed by his mother at a VERY early age. I don’t think he was a “trained” revolutionary back then, but the seeds were definitely planted. His mother had him believing that papa o was some kind of god/hero.
His racist views started then too. The people he associated with, Davis for sure, set his communist/racist views in stone.
But I don’t think he was very politically active until he went to Pakistan. He was a narcissistic, dope smoking, lazy punk. I believe he was recruited when he was at Columbia by his “best friends” and it was after his return that he suddenly had wealthy islamic “sponsors.”
THAT is when everything began to really move.
IMO if there was any 'hand picking' going on, it was Obama Sr that was picked...to cover the true paternity, by some black Chicago radical. He was always destined to follow in his father's footsteps, Frank Marshall Davis' mentoring would have seen to that.
However, another african-american muslim militant/radical the movement didn't need. What was he going to achieve that way? Become a Black Panther leader?
He changed direction. Just as Malcolm X did when he returned from Mecca.