Here is an interesting data point I had not considered: Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was only 18 when she had him. She had a November birthday, 1942, and he was born in August of 1961. This means she got pregnant when she was BARELY 18.
Frank Marshall Davis, who I have argued seems most likely to me to have been the father, was born in 1905, meaning that in 1960 he was 55. This is a 37 year difference.
Over and above the fact that one does not have to think long or hard about the wisdom of admitting an avowed and active Communist as a father, the mere difference in age, combined with the difference in race, would have been HUGELY controversial. He could have been her grandfather.
And to the point of my little “voice” (no, I don’t hear actual voices), this feels as I look at it (good fodder there for NLP’ers) more like a rape, more like an exercise of the droit du seigneur, more like a slave master raping a slave. More like a white man and a submissive, powerless black woman.
Why did she abandon young Barry to return to Indonesia? Did she feel no maternal tugs at all? Was it that she, too, was on an FBI watch list, and wanted to protect him? Or was it that she always felt like he was a child forced on her, a product of the cruel abuse of her innocence?
At some point in our history, it would be interesting for someone to get a sample of Obama’s DNA somehow, and compare it to the Davis’s. That part can be done scientifically, even if the actual personal histories are buried.