I will leave it to others to explain their claims regarding Malcolm X and Maya Angelou as being the true parents of Barry. IIRC, supposedly Barry was conceived in Egypt and ended up in Ghana with Maya until she came to the US in 1964 to participate in the civil rights movement. After Malcolm X is assassinated in February 1965 Maya's brother takes her to Hawaii to grieve where she supposedly drops Barry off with SADO who is actually a nanny and not the mom.
Doing a quick web search I find:
http://www.enotes.com/song-flung-up-heaven-salem/song-flung-up-heaven
“A Song Flung Up to Heaven begins in 1964 with Angelou returning to the United States from Ghana in order to help with the Civil Rights movement, specifically to write and organize for Malcolm X. Shortly after she lands in California, he is assassinated before her work with him can begin. Her brother takes his grief-stricken sister to Hawaii, where she sings in nightclubs, with no notable success.”
According to the narrative Barry, as Malcolm X's secret son, is so precious he must be protected from assassins, , and so a new identity is constructed for him in HI with SADO taking care of him and spiriting Barry off to Indonesia.
I am probably not the only FReeper who cannot make the timeline work and who is not in the least bit persuaded by the “Auntie Thread” that Malcolm X is the dad and Maya is the mom.
IMO, the Auntie Thread provides lots of documentary support to conclusively refute any claims that Stanley Ann Dunham was not Barry's mom and absolutely no documentary support for the claim that Maya is Barry's mom. A few hearsay newspaper stories reporting unreliable 50 year old memories from a Seattle babysitter and hearsay accounts from teachers and relatives in Kenya do no count as refutation that Barry's dad came to HI in 1959 or that SADO was the mom in my estimation.
No one on the Auntie thread (IIRC) that Maya Angelou is the mother.
I am sure someone else is the mother, and definitely not Stanley.
Oops - left out a world.
No one on the Auntie thread (IIRC) speculated or posited that Maya Angelou is the mother.
Where you get the idea from that ANYONE ever suggested that Maya Angelou was the mother of zero...beats me. You really must stop writing stuff without sources or links, your imagination is playing tricks on you.
I am probably not the only FReeper who cannot make the timeline work and who is not in the least bit persuaded by the “Auntie Thread” that Malcolm X is the dad and Maya is the mom.
You are doing it again! Just what IS your fixation with Maya Angelou?
IN HIS OWN WORDS:
"You must realize that what I am trying to do is very dangerous, because it is a direct threat to the entire international system of racist exploitation. It is a threat to discrimination in all its international forms. Therefore, if I die or am killed before making it back to the States, you can rest assured that what I've already set in motion will never be stopped." -- Letter from Cairo, August 29, 1964