This is the first I've heard of Maya Angelou in connection with BHO's life story. Please explain what the possible link is here.
Pidgeon favors Malcolm X as the father...
In order for that to occur, Malcolm would pretty much have had to travel to the Seattle area or to Honolulu somewhere around Sept. 1960, and there is no historical record of that, or Stanley Ann would have had to travel to Malcolm's whereabouts on the East Coast or Africa, and there is no historical record of that.
I know there has been some speculation by others about Malcolm being BHO's father, but until the geography issue can be reconciled, it couldn't have happened - assuming Stanley Ann Dunham was the mother, that is.
After reading the Auntie thread, plus other study on the research threads, I am 100% convinced that neither supposed parent of Zero is his actual parent.
Link to the Auntie thread for those who want to read it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2702976/posts
People should keep in mind that “Dreams” is a bs mythology propaganda book written by Ayers. Why assume anything in is true?
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.