“Obama the elder was a Luo, ie very, very black. Stanley Dunham was red all over.”
But I have been given to understand that Obama Sr. was mostly Arab, not African Black.
It is possible that Obama Sr. was mostly Arab, but probable that the Arab blood was as little as 1/4th. Even the perception of Arab blood plus being a practicing Muslim would put you in a better position in the slave trade. The mere captors/collectors made the least money, the middle wholesalers a little more and, of course, the big time traders like Tippu Tip, made the most.
Obama's paternal ancestry suggests they were mostly middle wholesalers. The reason for this assessment was because the paternal portion of his paternal line is reasonably well documented, the maternal portion is not.
The implications need to be understood. Arabs, at least the most faithful Muslims, are quite meticulous about recording their genealogy from generation to generation. This is ingrained into them as biblical descendants of Ishmael (Genesis 17) who, like his half-brother Isaac also fathered 12 sons and 12 tribes. The Arab version of how Isaac, the younger son, obtained the birthright from Abraham stresses deception and trickery, ignoring the fact that Isaac was the firstborn of Abraham's actual wife Sarah rather than his handmaiden Hagar, Ishmael's mother. From this story, the Muslim hatred of Jews as tricksters begin and, of course, extends to Christians, whom they consider a branch of Jewery. After all, we worship a Jewish carpenter as the only begotten son of God, while they claim God has no son and they have a prophet descended from the rightful eldest son of Abraham.
The reasons for the massive gaps in Obama Senior's maternal lines are, for those understanding the slave trade of East Africa prior to the 1920s, is because the traders (including the lower end wholesalers) had the benefit of being able to select the most attractive captives as wives, concubines or merely house maids which could be impressed into sexual services at any time. These women would be the origin of most of the Obama men's actual African blood. And, of course, the Obama men themselves would have a progressively higher concentration of African blood as a result, thus accounting for the increasingly darker skin in each generation.
Not true. Check out a pic of Barry Sr. Luos did not mix with the Arabs way back when.