And once the slave trade was suppressed, BO's ancestors went from bring rich slave traders on the coast of Kenya to being two-bit Mau-mau thugs much further inland.
Why do you think his Daddy hated the Brits with such a purple passion?
Why do you think BO was so anxious to get Churchill's bust out of the oval office.
Why do you think the matriarchal lines on his father's side is mostly untraceable? (Hint: One of the perks of slave trading was to cherry-pick women captives to add to your harem).
This valid point reminds me of the sketch of the cave man with an arrow through his head saying, “Ha, you missed the vital spots!”. So it is with Slate.
But on your point, the African Muslims were prohibited from enslaving Muslims. So the people they sold for slave exportation were animists. That had to have delayed the arrival of Islamist to the Americas and Western Europe in any noticeable numbers for several centuries. Thus, BHO’s progenitors stayed in Africa after they sold his wife’s ancestors to GHW/GW’s. Sort of interesting how all the treads of history work out.
As late as the 1920’s the Brits were still fighting small military engagements against organized slavers in Kenya.
For perspective, Obama’s father was born in 1936.