How can we know for sure? Doesn't the young boy look like Barack though?
not to me he doesn’t...but he could be related to the fellow he is smiling at. The image, identified (loosely) as a graduation ‘do’ for obama snr., is supposedly taken prior to his departure from Hawaii to the US; it’s odd that the ages of the ‘fellow students’ appear to vary so much.
If that were to be correct, then obama would already have been born. Remember, obama snr left for the US when the boy was just over a year old.
In an earlier comment there was the suggestion that Stanley Dunham arrived in Hawaii some time before his family. Did Stanley know obama snr prior to obama snr meeting Stanleys daughter?
We cannot trust image captions.
Isn’t it the Hawaiian custom to present lei on arrival? If he is leaving, would he be wearing flowers? And...if it is a gathering of graduates, why would obama snr be the only one with lei? He appears to be the ‘guest of honour’...
Methinks it’s more likely to be a welcome than a farewell - and that would place it to before obama was born.
Thoughts?