To: Brown Deer
Poor old Barack, he arrives in Hawaii on a ticket paid for by Elzabeth Mooney-(Kirk) who also chips in for his living expenses until she marries an elderly man with grown up children of his own, and cant support the handsome young black man who used to take her dancing in Nairobi any longer. Hes got a scholarship and a visa for one year and pretty soon hes totally out of funds and needs to get a job, he washes dishes in a cafe, then works for the Dole Corp pine-apple cannery for a few weeks for a buck fifty an hour. He writes home and says hes married a white woman and hes working for an oil company, but there arent any oil companies in Hawaii, are there? Then he writes to say he had a son. He applies for an extension for another year which is granted, and finds another sponsor, this time its The Africa-America Society who throw in a thousand bucks or so, thats the organization that in later years would be fronted by Percy Sutton and Betty Shabazz, but dont go looking for the archives to their Newsletters, that has been removed from the web. Totally. Theyve even changed the NAME. The Africa-America Society were one of the first to bring students to the US from all over the world, many from Africa, some from Kenya. Some 30 thousand over a period of years. Their funds came from The Rockefellers Trust; Standard Oil money.
The kenyan student writes home hes got a wife and a son in Hawaii, but when he shows up in San Fransisco at the Blue Fox to have dinner with Hal Abercrombiue and his blonde wife, hes an obnoxious, rude and over-bearing man who treats the waiter like garbage. Hes come into money. He doesnt mention his wife and son to Hal. Hes ditched them both obviously. Shes gone to where-ever she came from, probably the Philippenes just like he told the immigration department, and the little boy, the one that Mary babysat in January, I imagine is being cared for by someone in Hawaii while the kenyan student makes himself a PITA at Harvard and ends up being almost politely tipped out of the country. Hes cost the US heaven knows how much pain and aggro, its doubtful he was ever qualified to even apply for a scholarship because he had an arrest record in Kenya before he left. And when he did return, guess what? He worked for an oil company, not the government, because Mboya didnt give him a job. He had to wait until another buddy of his became finance minister before he began his government job. And when Mboya was killed, he was the last man to see him alive, and had to surrender his passport. And all this is available on the web, if anyone ever cared to look it up.
But in the minds of the majority who voted for zero, the kenyan student is an exotic figure of romance who married the milk-white teenager from Kansas...when in fact, he was a total rogue, who, when Harvard grew thoroughly sick and tired of him, picked up his little black boy and hot-footed it back to Kenya, with Ruth trailing after him some weeks later.
Notice, theres been no need to include Stanley Ann Dunham or little zero in the story? They were added later.
See, I can write a story too and its not all fantasy either.
605 posted on Wednesday, 6 March 2013 12:21:07 PM by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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All that is needed to see which possibilities make sense and are most logical, with the most evidence, is to first of all empty one’s cup of “I know this/I know that” and read as though seeing for the first time, not knowing anything.
It’s interesting how much influence Ayers book has had on people, the mythology is hard for many people to clear out of their minds.