Although he has written home to tell his father Onyango who is the only one who could read, hes got a wife and a son in Hawaii, when he shows up in San Fransisco at the Blue Fox to have dinner with Hal Abercrombie and his blonde wife, hes an obnoxious, rude and over-bearing man who treats the waiter like garbage. Hes come into money, he has a scholarship to attend Harvard. He doesnt mention his wife and son to Hal. Hes ditched them both obviously. Shes gone to where-ever she came from, probably the Philippines just like he told the immigration department, and the little boy, the one that Mary babysat in January 1961, is being cared for by someone somewhere close enough to where he lived at 170 Magazine Street Cambridge, because hes telling his fellow students about visiting his son - and that might explain why it was thought that he must have had another wife in Boston. 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 to anywhere in the US 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 so called 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?
The (self-confessed)author of Dreams From my Father is recorded as having said, quite a long time ago, when he was still a terrorist, one day we will have the presidency of this country - remember?
74 posted on Sunday, 9 March 2014 8:13:32 AM by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM)
AND A GOODNIGHT TO ALL.
Good night and thank you for your hard work and posting.