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JDPriestly

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2. Somehow I doubt that Barack Obama's father was anti-white.
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 01:27 AM
Apr 2012

I base my doubt on the fact that he married Barack Obama's white mother -- whose family was from Kansas no less.

Kenya was viewed as a potentially violent place in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They were just beginning their democratic institutions. The Mau-Maus had revolted only a few years before Barack Obama was born.

That is why I find the idea that Barack Obama's mother would have gone to Kenya to give birth to be an absurd joke.

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