..as a follow on to #9352:
In the early eighties, obama zero arrived in Kenya to introduce himself as the long lost son and strike up a relationship - during the visit ‘granny’ says, ‘what? you’re still writing your name with a ‘c’ in it? That’s not right, your ‘father’ would have hated that! That’s the way the colonials wrote his name...’
And that’s how Barack became Barak, IMO.
While I have tried to keep up with the post, I believe it is important to determine whether Barak Sr. changed the spelling of his first name to Barack after he came to Hawaii. The reason is that the COLB and newspaper announcement use the Barack spelling. If he was proud of his given name, I find it unlikely that he would have adopted the Barack spelling. This is borne out in this post. If he continued to use the Barak spelling, then why do we have his first name spelled Barack on both the COLB and the newspaper announcements? Answer: the documents forgers forgot this little detail. Do we have access to any of his college registrations or other documents during this time period?