You know Francis’ folks? What do you mean by that, breh? Why would we be surprised?
Cress-Welsing's people came to Chicago from Canada. The same area a branch of my family came from in Ontario.
Cress-Welsing and the Wells-Barnett family are talented tenth blue vein bourgeoisie types. Both families are very accomplished and the Cress-Welsings even more than the Wells-Barnett. Not really down to earth people and you will never see them socializing outside of swanky galas. The exception is France's sister Lorna. Who his very down, involved with grassroots activism, and very approachable. She gave me my copy of the Isis Papers.
I think Lorna would be down for FBA, but Frances was definitely a Pan-Africanist.
Outside of her, their families would probably not want Frances or Ida to be associated with FBA or Tariq.
They probably love him. Tariq is always bigging up Dr. Welsing and I think he mentioned one time that he paid for her funeral.
I wish folks would stop with this narrative. Frances came from an elite black Chicago family that owned a funeral business for over a century who did the funerals of all the high-profile people like Elijah Muhammad and Jessie Owens. Frances had a private funeral and Tariq paid for one of three memorials she had three months after her death. This narrative that funeral home owners had no money to pay for a funeral is nonsense.