In the 18th century, Muslim slavers moved into the interior of Kenya for the purpose of exploiting blood rivalries between local tribes. Muslims encouraged warring tribes, Obama Jr's Luo ancestors included, to capture "prisoners of war" and sell them into slavery. Kenya tribe leaders, also exported slaves and ivory that had been exchanged by Africans from the interior for salt, cloth, beads, and metal goods. The slaves were then marched to the coast and shipped to Muslim Zanzibar (an island South of Kenya), to be traded again. African slaves and ivory became hugely profitable and Zanzibar Muslims grew rich on the trade. Slave trading continued despite the public outrage in Europe demanding an end to all slave trade. The British, eventually brought their forceful anti-slavery message directly to the Muslim Sultan. After years of pressure, the Sultan finally relented and agreed to ban slavery in 1847. It was not until 1876, 11 years after the American Civil War had ended, that the sale of slaves was finally prohibited in Zanzibar. http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-107575
Obama isn't Kim Kardashian, either. I think we can safely say that Obama isn't May West. Pretty sure he isn't one of the Wright Brothers.
A descendant of slave traders he is. Traders who likely had something to do with plucking the ancestors of African Americans away from their home. Ya know, the same African Americans who blame whitey for their terrible plight. Fact is that slave traders were white, black, Muslim and who knows what else. Liberals are fit to be tied that USC's mascot, Traveler, has a similar name to Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveller. LA Times: "Traveler, USC's Mascot, Comes Under Scrutiny for Having a Name Similar to Robert E. Lee's Horse" http://www.unz.com/isteve/la-times-...having-a-name-similar-to-robert-e-lees-horse/ Do you not find it odd that those same liberals aren't in a snit over Obama having the exact same name and is a descendant of a slave trader?
Did they wage war on the US? Did their movement lead to the assassination of Lincoln? Are you really just now figuring out that slavery was common? Native Americans had slaves too. We are probably all descendants of slave traders.
So now it's not perceived racism at the center of the antifa and BLM violence. Now it's patriotism. You need to print up a program. The last one said the US was a terrible place with a terrible human rights record. Now you're saying the US was a great place and we should be aghast at the thought of states seceding.
Maybe if Barack changed his name to Obamma, he, like the latest incantation of Traveler, will be allowed to escape the glue factory.
World must a weird place for you - living in the extremes of every thought. Hyperbole central. Black and white - no colors or shades.
If every President had his 12% average stock market gain per year and 5% drop in unemployment during his tenure ... hell, I'll take it.
Nah, I just think most folks are tired of having folks on the left constantly shifting the goal posts, or for that matter simply picking up the football (yes, that's a peanuts reference. google it). All this "it only matters when it's controlling other folks" mantra in the left is exactly the thing most in the US are now actively discounting. If you want your shades of grey, read the trilogy.
Did you know that Obama is descended from the first Black slave in America? Obama's 11th Great-Grandfather was John Punch a Black man who was enslaved during the 1600s who escaped from Maryland and was sentenced in Virginia to life as a slave making him the first man of African descent to be officially enslaved for life in America. Punch married a White woman and his descendants are part of the bloodline of Obama's mother which has been confirmed by DNA analysis. This information was uncovered by genealogists at Ancestry.com so it is as credible as you can get. My two cents. Who cares? It doesn't matter if Obama had slave ancestors or was descended from slaves traders. Being descended from slaves does not define a Black person in America. There is no such thing as authentic Blackness. This is a racist ruse invented by White Supremacists and conservatives who want to discount Obama as the first African-American President. Voting to elect the first African-American President was for many people the most exciting moment in their lives and will go down as one of the most noteworthy elections in American history. Obama is part of Black history whether racists want to acknowledge it or not. In reality White Supremacists don't care if Obama is biracial or his father is Kenyan with no connection to American slavery or his ancestors in Kenya are slave traders. They don't care. All they want to do is deny him his place in history and reject him as someone that African-Americans can be proud of to be racist. Obama being the son of a Kenyan immigrant with a White mother hasn't helped him avoid anti-Black racism so why should that matter when it comes to the accomplishment of being the first African-American President? Why would Black Americans deny him for being biracial when biracial and multiracial people with Black ancestry had to sit at the back of the bus with all of the other "Coloreds" and experienced racism throughout America history to this very day? You're Black when you have any detectable African ancestry (One Drop Rule) but when you're doing something positive you're not authentically Black? Only in the minds of racists. Obama is not even President any more and you racists can't let it go. You make up all kinds of lies about him and tried to discredit him at every turn throughout his Presidency. Will now Obama is relaxing on vacation, he is still popular with the American people and we have one of the worst and most corrupt Presidents in office right now. Many Americans are already wishing Obama was still President after dealing with Trump who hasn't even been President one year. If Trump resigns or is impeached before his first term ends I wouldn't be surprised and his supporters only have themselves to blame. Meanwhile Obama will go down in history as one of the best ever and Americans can only hope to elect another Democrat nearly as good as him.