Zimmerman is only 1/8 black/Afro-Peruvian. He appears to be 3/8 hispanic.
>ObaMao’s black half is at least one quarter to three quarters Arab. A dirty little family secret is that the Lao tribe enjoyed privileged status in Kenya because they intermarried with Arabs.
From what I know, the Arabs in Kenya all live in the coastal region, while the Luo all live in Western Kenya, near Uganda. Furthermore, they didn’t seem to intermarry with other ethnic groups much, if at all. Does he have Arab ancestry? I suppose anything’s possible, but IMO it’s rather unlikely.
This is entirely consistent with the custom of slave traders being able to cherry-pick the best female captors to add to their harems.
Further, any divide or lack of mixing between coastal Arab Muslims and inland Lao Tribal Muslims, who largely did the dirty work of capturing the slaves to sell to their Arab trading partners, is almost entirely due to racism, not religious prohibition on interracial marriage.
Islam has traditionally no prohibitions on interracial marriage, only inter-religious. In fact, a common way to advance oneself socially was to marry into Arab lineages.
The Arabs consider themselves the top of the racial heap in Islam with a pecking order roughly identical to the order in which they embraced Islam. The Persians, of course, would be an exception as would Arab Shiites which are viewed as some sort of sub-class (at best) or apostate (at worst) in much the same way Biblical Jews views Samaritans or extreme fundamentalists view Mormons.
One reason Arabs consider themselves racially superior is that many of them are able to trace their genealogies back thousands of years, some even to Adam (or so they claim). Their view is that their ancestor Esau did not sell his birthright to Jacob but was merely cheated out of it by the ancestor of Jews and Christians in collusion with his mother Rebekah. See Genesis 27, which the Arabs regard as a Jewish/Christian version of what really happened.
A close friend of mine is the son of a Jordanian Muslim father and an American Christian mother. He's told me stories which would curl your hair. I won't go into them all, but the bottom line is that among some Arab tribes, they view one of the best ways to spread Islam and their superior seed is to intermarry as much as possible among late comers to their faith so they may enjoy the blessings of being both Arab and Muslim.
My friend also tells me that Obama is also a name of Arabic origin. This doesn't necessarily prove an Arab bloodline since Laos would Arabize their names over generations as a social prestige thing, given the fact that Islam and Arabs have been in Kenya since the 8th century, the chances of interracial marriage is quite high.