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Secret UK Files List President Obama’s Father
abcnews.go.com ^ | 19 Apr 2012 | Bazi Kanani

Posted on 04/19/2012 7:52:22 PM PDT by smokingfrog

While the United Kingdom was violently suppressing a revolt against its rule in East Africa, the United States was in the middle of a growing civil rights movement. According to previously secret government files released in the UK today, it was during that time in 1959 when British colonial officials provided the name of President Obama’s father and other Kenyan students in America to the United States government.

“If we contextualize this, it’s fair to say the US and UK were like-minded in their views on race,” said Harvard historian Caroline Elkins, whose research into the UK’s colonial practices in Kenya helped lead to the documents release.

According to British media reports, one of the files reveals US officials told a British diplomat that Kenyan students had a reputation for “falling into bad hands” and “becoming both anti-American and anti-white.”

It does not specify what is meant by “bad hands,” but the file shows British colonial authorities were annoyed by claims made by a US-based group helping to fund the Kenyan students’ education, including a grant to Barack Obama Sr., who was the first African student at the University of Hawaii.

The African American Students Foundation–supported by black American celebrities including Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and Jackie Robinson–said it was providing scholarships to Kenyan students because higher education was not available to them in their country at that time. The BBC reports diplomats at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., denied the claim and accused the AASF of having objectives that were more political than educational.

“There were some limited opportunities for those Kenyans who supported the colonial state or certain missionaries, but there were by no means the kinds of opportunities in Kenya as there were in the United States,” said Elkins.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: kenya; obamafather; obamasr

1 posted on 04/19/2012 7:52:33 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Papa ‘O’ Mau-Mau


2 posted on 04/19/2012 8:02:44 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: smokingfrog

Elkins sounds like a leftist shill for the Mau Mau. The MM killed thousands of their own people, i.e., those who didn’t support them/their violence, or who supported the British farmers.

Anthropologist Louis Leakey wrote the official British inquiry report on the MM Rebellion. It is very detailed and worth reading if you are interested in this subject.

The MM killed their own people with machetes and panga-like knives. Also killed several hundred white farmers/families and soldiers.

The rebellion was crushed in blood, partially because the average Kenyan didn’t support the violence that the MM practiced. Kenyatta eventually gave up the fight because he saw that violence wasn’t going to win.

The MM-type violence is now being used by Marxist Raili Odinga, one of Obama’s buddies, with the Luo Moslem tribal grouping, against Kenyan black Christians, including the Kikuyu.

Another “African spring” that was planned to go bad. Thank Obama for fanning the flames of discrimination and death.


3 posted on 04/19/2012 8:09:00 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

MadMax, BHO and Odinga are more than “buddies”. They’re blood cousins on his fathers side.

See this video. http://youtu.be/yfKvDCsrXoA

Semper Fi


4 posted on 04/19/2012 8:55:25 PM PDT by MASS-2 FAC (Get premium health care - run for congress)
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To: smokingfrog

soetoro should have doctored his fake certificate of live birth to list Frank Marshall Davis as his pappy. At least that way, he might have bamboozled enough republicrats to stay off his back until after the next “election”, his “novels” notwithstanding.


5 posted on 04/19/2012 10:15:44 PM PDT by onedoug
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