Valerie Jarrett was born in November 1956 to American parents in Shiraz, Iran, where her father -- a renowned physician -- ran a childrens hospital. When Valerie was five, her family relocated to London for one year before settling in Chicagos elite Hyde Park neighborhood in 1963. Jarretts maternal grandfather was a Chicagoan named Robert Taylor, who in the 1940s was involved with such communist fronts as the American Peace Mobilization and the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee. Also a member of these groups was Frank Marshall Davis, the communist journalist who in the 1970s would mentor a young Barack Obama. Jarretts mother (and Robert Taylors daughter) is early-childhood-education author Barbara Taylor Bowman, who co-founded a Chicago-based graduate school in child development known as the Erikson Institute, named after the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson; in 1950 Erikson became a hero to the left by choosing to resign from his professorship at the University of California rather than sign an anti-communist loyalty oath as the school required. Indicative of the Erikson Institutes radical political orientation is the fact that its board of trustees has included, in addition to Bowman, such figures as Tom Ayers (father of the former Weather Underground terrorist and lifelong Marxist Bill Ayers) and Bernardine Dohrn (longtime wife of Bill Ayers). Bill Ayers, for his part, called Bowman a neighbor and friend in his 1997 book A Kind and Just Parent, noting that his neighbors also included Louis Farrakhan and writer Barack Obama. freedomoutpost/2014/08/the-corruption-of-the-entire-obama-administration-is-corroding-the-younger-generation/
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