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Donald Warden had a message, “the time has come to break with white America.”

After the Watts riots, Warden, who would later convert to Islam and take the name Khaled Al-Mansour, released an album titled “Burn, Baby Burn”, celebrating the riots and looting. “The black man cannot take anymore, he is now looking to burn,” he warned.

Warden’s vehicle for spreading his hate was the Afro American Association. And that was where Kamala’s parents met. The ‘Association’ had been created to study “Black Identity.” It banned white people and even non-black ones from joining. With only one exception. Kamala’s mother.

Shyamala Gopalan, who had been raised in a radical leftist family hostile to British colonialism, eagerly latched on to the hate group and the young black Marxist economist she met there.

Along with Donald Harris and Gopalan, Kamala’s parents, other members included Huey Newton and Bobby Seale with whom Warden helped set up the Black Panther Party. Newton, a domestic terrorist, would go on to murder a police officer, at least one girl, and commit numerous other crimes. Seale was responsible for a number of murders as well.

Kamala has recalled coming “down the stairs of her childhood house in Berkeley to see FREE BOBBY carved in wet cement, after the Black Panther leader Bobby Seale was arrested.”

The purpose of the ‘Association’, according to Al-Mansour, was to teach “racial pride.” Meetings of the racist hate group were held at the home of Mary Agnes Lewis, a founder of college Black Studies programs, who would serve as Kamala’s godmother. Other members and associates of the hate group would also play crucial roles in raising Kamala when her mother was away.

Kamala has claimed that she was a “daughter of the civil rights movement”, but the Afro American Association was actually a black nationalist group opposed to the NAACP. It was against “integration” and emphasized the separatism and superiority of black people. (Kamala’s mother remained the only non-black person allowed to be part of the racist hate group.)

The vice president not come out of the civil rights movement, but from a group opposed to it.

Aubrey Labrie, Kamala’s ‘Uncle Aubrey’, who observed that, “Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were the heroes of some of us” was a member of the ‘Association’ and a close friend of Maulana Karenga, the founder of Kwanzaa, who would later go to prison for torturing two women with a soldering iron.

Labrie was an editor of Black Dialogue magazine which featured racist calls to violence.

In one article, “Uncle Aubrey’s” younger brother hailed the Watts rioters “who burned the city of angels and shook the crumbling white power structure” as “one battle in the ‘war of Armageddon’ or the war between the black and white.”  The magazine praised the “extremely effective tactic of igniting fires to local parasitical white business communities.”

It is not difficult to draw a direct line from that to Kamala’s support for the BLM rioters.

It was Uncle Aubrey, not actually related, who brought Kamala to his own aunt, whom she described as a “second mother” who helped raise her when her mother was not around. It was the racist black nationalists who raised Kamala and taught her their worldview more than any of her Hindu family did. And it’s their hatred for America that Kamala appears to carry with her.

Every time Kamala takes an oath on a bible, it’s the one brought by ‘Uncle Aubrey’.

The Afro American Association banned white people and engaged in orgies of hatred that appear almost unbelievable. Warden’s deranged level of racism was not unusual.

The Afro American Association featured a performance of The Dutchman, a play by Amiri Baraka, with its call for the mass murder of white people. “Murder. Just murder! Would make us all sane,” the black protagonist intones. This was a message that Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) would return to again and again in poems and plays. “Come up, black dada / nihilismus. Rape the white girls. Rape / their fathers. Cut the mothers’ throats.” Baraka harbored a special hatred for Jews, ranting “I got the extermination blues, jew-boys. I got the Hitler syndrome figured.”

‘Uncle Aubrey’s’ Black Dialogue magazine helped popularize and promote Baraka’s hate.

Media stories have portrayed the world of the Afro American Association as a cozy community and it was for those who were black and did not violently fall afoul of its leaders. But that’s true of most hate groups which promise an insular world conditioned on hostility to the outside world.

Kamala is not responsible for the bigotry of her parents, but she was raised in that world and continues to embrace it. Her entire appeal to the black community is based on those associations with some of the most hateful figures in the period. And it is worth asking how many of her radical views, including her support for race rioters, come out of that world?

Especially because she would not be the first.

After Khaled Al-Mansour knew Kamala’s parents, he promoted the career of another aspiring black president. Al-Mansor, who converted to Islam and befriended a Saudi leader, had raised money for Barack Obama’s Ivy League education and solicited recommendation letters for him to go to Harvard. The Obama campaign quickly denied the story, but it never went away.

Khaled Al-Mansour’s racism being associated with not only the first black president, but the first black vice president, would not be wholly surprising. Obama and Kamala have a lot in common. Both were the products of third world elites resentful of British colonialism. Both had absent black fathers, radical non-black mothers and are reflexively hostile to America.

But Kamala was raised on a level of hate far beyond anything that Obama grew up with.

Mansour, Baraka, Karenga and many other Afro American Association members would be driven to extremes by the hatred of the Nation of Islam. This was the hatred with which Kamala was raised at an early age. It’s a hatred that she has never disavowed. Instead, in the Senate, she conspired to stop the FBI from investigating black supremacist hate groups.

Has the hatred with which she was raised ever left her soul?