It was written as the result of this short observation made by another Freeper, who wrote:
... Obama and Ayers seem to have shared the same library in any case. Both talk of reading the books of Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois...
to which I replied:
There we go again, it all starts with DuBois, mentor to Paul Robeson who was instrumental in Frank Marshall Davis going to Hawaii; finds its way to Ghana where DuBois was visited by Paul Robeson and Malcolm X, and living in that expat African-American community was Maya Angelou, good friend of James Baldwin who tried to write a screenplay of the life of Malcolm X...William Ayres with his door plastered with Malcolm X images, writes 'Dreams' for Obama, whose 'father' was employed by Mboya, the Luo, educated in England, who In 1958 attended a convention of African nationalists at Accra, Ghana...came to the US in 1959, the same year that Oginga Odinga also came to the US and was embraced by Malcolm X - the same year btw, that Obama Senior landed in Hawaii. Oginga Odinga, father of Raila Odinga for whom Obama campaigned...
Is that enough to start one thinking that maybe Malcolm X knew Obama Snr before the 'student from Kenya' showed up in Hawaii, or maybe there's a reason Stanley Ann Dunham named her daughter Maya?
----sorta-tongue-in-cheek.
As for Langston Hughes, I haven't researched that connection. Yet. And I left out Harry Belafonte!
Sorta tongue-in-cheek, but also sorta compelling....
So, we have DuBois and Angelou in Cairo 1961 before they go to Ghana. We have visits and ties between them and Malcolm X and various others of the cast of characters, many in Egypt (or United Arab Republic at the time). An international port, big ships . . .
Then Angelou refers to the deeper friendship she formed with X in Ghana as like brother and sister.
Malcolm’s high-level connections within Islam, including the Saudis, Barry’s unexplained financial aid throughout his life — somebody’s looking out for him. That astonishing resemblance. And Stanley Ann names her daughter Maya.
Anyone looked at hospital records in Cairo, 1961?
Like you said, sorta tongue-in-cheek.