Wow. Lots to digest. I’m worried about the long form BC magically appearing now, and obviously everything else this immoral administration stands for. As for Ginsberg and her comments which amazed us all-—she should resign because she has shown herself unfit to judge ANYTHING!
I don’t know if it is important or if we already have this. Interesting rollo payne was a bookkeeper for a oil lease. So maybe the story where he worked for Rockefeller of standard oil is true. The other part is rollo leased his land to rockefeller in return rollo was taken care of well.
Payne was white. In a sign of those segregated times, his card is marked at the bottom, along the left: “If person is of African descent, tear off this corner.”
Generations later, his great-grandson, of African descent on his father’s side, is close to becoming the first black Democratic nominee for president.
TOOT’S TIMES
For a man whose ancestry is half African, Obama has a deep American lineage with distinguished names. That’s because some of his ancestors on his white mother’s side were named after great historical figures.
There was Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham of Kansas, 1894-1970; Christopher Columbus Clark of Missouri, 1846-1937; and George Washington Overall of Kentucky, 1820-1871.
As he reminds people frequently, he’s also distantly related to Vice President Dick Cheney.
Rolla Charles Payne was not famous in any sense.
On his 1917 draft registration, Payne is listed as having a slender build, medium height, gray eyes and brown hair.
At age 24, he described himself as a bookkeeper for an oil company in Tulsa, Okla. His home address was in Kansas.
“Caucasian” is scribbled on the form, spilling over the too-short line. The corner for blacks to tear off an easy way to sort black from white in the segregated armed forces is left intact.
Obama speaks of Payne and his daughter, nicknamed Toot, in his memoirs. Toot was Obama’s grandmother.
“Toot’s family was respectable,” he wrote. “Her father held a steady job all through the Depression, managing an oil lease for Standard Oil.
“The family kept their house spotless and ordered Great Books through the mail; they read the Bible but generally shunned the tent revival circuit, preferring a straight-backed form of Methodism that valued reason over passion and temperance over both.”
Obama’s denomination is the United Church of Christ.