Is this Stanley Ann Dunham bio accurate?

Answer 1

Stanley Ann Dunham was Barack Obama's mother, an anthropologist who worked in rural development and microfinance in Indonesia and beyond. Claims about her gender or background spread online are false and have been debunked.

Answer 2

No, it is not. Note: the following question re-prints an inaccurate and biased "bio" of President Obama's mother, obviously written by someone who is ultra-conservative and wants to associate her with "radical Marxism," although there is no proof of this. It also wants to imply she was "mysterious" and not a good mother; yet there is ample evidence that she cared deeply about her son. She tutored him, encouraged him to study, and when she could not take care of him, she asked for help from her parents (Barack's maternal grandparents). Further, President Obama has praised her for teaching him to respect all religions and cultures.

There are also many reliable sources about her life, and the majority of the assertions in this "bio" are either demonstrably false or unproved opinion. When you find something on the internet, that does not necessarily mean it is objective or balanced. I am not defending Ms. Dunham, whom I never met. But having seen objective biographies about her life, I do not believe this qualifies as a bio-- it is a work of propaganda, and should be taken with a grain of salt.

Question:

I have been researching the transparent mother and I have come across some information on Stanley Ann Dunham. She is a mystery for several reasons. This is a brief bio I picked up somewhere, it is not mine but I do not believe it has a copyright.

Obama's Mother's Bio: Stanley Ann Dunham

With mother's 'other interests' apparently no one was raising this child? The background of Obama's mother Barack Obama referred to his mother as "the dominant figure in my formative years"

Stanley Ann Dunham, Mercer Island High School

Stanley Ann Dunham Obana Soetoro (November 29, 1942 - November 7, 1995), known as Ann Dunham and Stanley Ann Dunham, was an American anthropologist, left-wing social activist, and the mother of Senator Barack Obama. She was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. Her father was a furniture salesman in downtown Seattle, Washington, and her mother worked for a bank. After a year living in Seattle, her family moved to Mercer Island, Washington, in 1956 so that 13-year old Ann could attend the Mercer Island High School that had just opened. At the school she was on the debate team and graduated in 1960. Her family moved to Hawaii and Ann attended the University of Hawaii Manoa, where she studied anthropology.

When Ann Dunham arrived in Hawaii, she was a full fledged radical leftist and practitioner of critical theory. She also began to engage in miscegenation (inter-racial relationships) as part of her attack on society. Susan Blake, one of her friends has stated she never dated "the crew-cut white boys", She had a world view, even as a young girl. It was embracing the different, rather than that ethnocentric thing of shunning the different. That was where her mind took her. In Hawaii she met Barack Obama, Sr. From Kenya in her Russian language class. Barack Obama, Jr. Was born August 4, 1961.

Barack Obama, Sr. Left Ann and their son in 1963 to attend Harvard in Boston. Press reports claim Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. Were divorced around this time; however, no evidence has yet been presented to show they were ever married. The senior Obama obtained a masters degree in economics at Harvard and returned to Kenya in 1965 where he obtained a position in the Kenyan government. He was killed in an automobile accident in 1982.

Two years later, when her son was five, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian oil manager and practicing Muslim whom she met at the university. In 1967 they moved to Jakarta , Indonesia . While in Indonesia Ann got a job at the American embassy teaching English.

Barack's half-sister, Maya Soetoro was born in Indonesia. Ann, Obama and his sister Maya moved back to Hawaii . Ann Dunham soon returned to Indonesia with Maya but divorced Soetoro in the late 1970s.

Dunham traveled around the world, pursuing a career in rural development that took her to Ghana, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Nepal and Bangladesh . In 1986 Ann Dunham worked on a developmental project in Pakistan. Later that year Ann and her daughter traveled the Silk Road in China. In 1992 she earned a Ph.D. In anthropology from the University of Hawaii. Her dissertation, "Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia : Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds," was 1067 pages long. She worked for the Ford Foundation and promoted micro lending.

During Obama's campaign for the 2008 presidential election he portrayed his mother as a conservative girl from Kansas; however in reality she was a radical leftist and cultural Marxist. She lived in the Seattle area; spending her teenage years in Seattle coffee shops with other young radical leftist. Obama claims his mother's family were conservative Methodists or Baptists from Kansas. However his mother's parents were members of a left-wing Unitarian church near Seattle. The church located in Bellevue, Washington was nicknamed "the little red church," because of it's communist leanings.

The school Ann attended, Mercer Island High School , was a hotbed of pro-Marxist radical teachers. John Stenhouse, board member, told the House Un-American Activities Subcommittee that he had been a member of the Communist Party USA and this school has a number of Marxists on it's staff. Two teachers at this school, Val Foubert and Jim Wichterman, both Frankfurt School style Marxists, taught a critical theory curriculum to students which included; rejection of societal norms, attacks on Christianity, the traditional family, and assigned readings by Karl Marx. The hallway between Foubert's and Wichterman classrooms was some times called "anarchy ally."

Dunham has been described by her friends as "a fellow traveler..." meaning a communist sympathizer. In an interview, Barack Obama referred to his mother as "the dominant figure in my formative years... The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics." Before she died Ann Dunham wanted to adopt a mixed-race Korean baby fathered by a Black American stationed in South Korea. Ann Dunham died in Hawaii in 1995 of ovarian cancer and uterine cancer.

Comment:

Appears to have been well educated and traveled. However, her upbringing and pre-collegiate education during her formative years; known Marxist politics and activities makes it really difficult to identify her as a conservative; and if she really was "the dominant figure in my formative years... The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics.", then we are in a world of hurt if this individual is elected to the highest office in the land. We should have left Joe McCarthy alone and let him rid our Schools and Colleges of Communist Instructors.