Needs to be over here too!
Much background here:
Valerie Jarrett’s Father-in-Law Was a Communist – Worked With Obama Mentor Frank Marshall Davis
https://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/tag/valerie-jarrett-vernon-jarrett-communist/
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Excerpt:
Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman. Her father, a pathologist and geneticist, ran a hospital for children in Shiraz, as part of a program where American doctors and agricultural experts sought to help jump-start developing countries’ health and farming efforts. When she was five, the family moved to London for one year, returning to Chicago in 1963.[citation needed]
In 1966 her mother, Barbara T. Bowman, was one of four child advocates that created the Erikson Institute. The Institute was established to provide advanced knowledge in child development for teachers and other professionals working with young children.[citation needed]
As a child she spoke Persian and French.[3]
Jarrett graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon in 1974. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1978, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981.[citation needed]
In 1983 Jarrett married Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of famed Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. She attributes her switch from a private to a public career to their daughter Laura’s birth and her own desire to do something that would make the daughter proud.[4]
To one reporter’s e-mailed question about her divorce, she replied, “Married in 1983, separated in 1987, and divorced in 1988. Enough said.”[4] In a Vogue profile, she further explained “We grew up together. We were friends since childhood. In a sense, he was the boy next door. I married without really appreciating how hard divorce would be.”[4] William Jarrett died of a sudden heart attack in 1993.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett
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Much background
Valerie Jarrett Slum Queen
http://www.brayincandy.com/id168.html
32 posted on Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:07:54 PM by STARWISE
Thanks for the background on Jarrett. There were several point you made that I did not know.
Had previously read that she spoke Persian (Farsi). That with Communism is a strange cocktail. The self identified Persians I have know are nothing Communist. Of course the Mullahs in Iran are very comfortable with Communism. They often speak Persian (Farsi) but they think Arab.
The Persian culture is ancient and has a history of respecting freedom. Islam is the opposite, only a history of oppression and brutality.