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To: Fred Nerks

Wasn’t Quentin Young mentioned a few times in another recent thread?


8 posted on 06/16/2019 12:50:47 AM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Brown Deer

I see you found it...here’s a Keywiki excerpt:

The Quentin Young, Barack Obama relationship

Quentin Young and Barack Obama
Quentin Young is a long time friend and supporter of Barack Obama[38]. He was Obama’s personal physician for more than 20 years[39].
Quentin Young, perhaps the most well-known single-payer advocate in America. He was the Rev. Martin Luther King’s doctor when he lived in Chicago and a longtime friend and ally of Barack Obama.
In the 1990s Barack Obama and Quentin Young were both supporters of “single payer” health care..

As a state Senator, Obama and another leftist colleague and state representative Willie Delgado presented the The Health Care Justice Act to the Illinois House and Senate...

Communist Party Affiliation

Young was close to the Communist Party USA at least until the early 1970s.
In Chicago on October 27, 1971 - The Presidential Ballroom of the Midland Hotel was packed with more than 400 people last Friday to mark the 8Oth birthday of Wiliam L.Patterson, the man who rocked the world with his charge of genocide against the U.S. imperialists. Spokesmen for the committee sponsoring the banquet told the Daily World that many who had delayed in getting reservations had to be turned away. Veterans of the working class movement said they could not remember an occasion bringing together such a broad spectrum of workers, trade unionists and professionals, in a tribute to a Communist leader.[11]
Audience members included centenarian Jesse Hilton, Dr. Quentin Young, president of the Medical Committee for Human Rights...

https://www.keywiki.org/Quentin_Young

Student Union - ASU

Quentin Young was listed as a member of the National Executive Committee of the ASU Elected at the Fourth Annual Convention - 1938, from the “High School” representatives. “Quentin Young, Hyde Park H. S., Chicago”...The NCPAC was cited by Congress as a Communist Party USA (CPUSA), political action front, and was featured in a number of very large and detailed volumes of Appendix IX, which were ordered destroyed by the Democrats in Congress because it showed that a significant number of Democrats were very active supporters of CPUSA fronts and causes during the 1930’s through 1944...


20 posted on 06/16/2019 4:24:59 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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