White side:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.obama02mar02,0,5765826.story
““an intriguing sliver of his [Obama Jr.] family history has received almost no attention until now: It appears that forebears of his white mother owned slaves, according to genealogical research and census records.”
Luo Tribe/Kenyan side/Muslim side:
Obama’s Kenyan father was of the Luo tribe, ancestrally connected prominently and directly with African slave trade.
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. The Luo were one of the largest players in this, for profit to their king/chief.
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 through Arab/Jewish traders to European shippers to the various country’s colonies.
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.
Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Obama Jr’s father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. Obama’s African side relatives never were brought here into slavery, because that family and their muslim partners were the ones rounding up the African natives as slaves.
I don’t think he should apologize either. But people need to know who people are and where they are from, including their Marxist links. Marxism is quite supportive of slavery to the state, the state replacing the plantation of course.
IOW, you have no evidence at all that Obama’s ancestors were slave traders.
Only that some of his maternal ancestors may have owned slaves, and his paternal ancestors were members of a tribe that engaged in slave raiding.
Actually, it’s kind of a false analogy. If you go back far enough, every single one of us is descended from slaves, from slave-owners and probably from slave traders.