Posted on 11/30/2009 7:43:24 PM PST by syc1959
A friend of mine sent me this story of his time in the Marine Corps. Read through to the end, its a shocker.
What strikes me most is what he said as to where he grew up: Indonesia. He told me he wanted to be President of the US someday. I remember lightly smiling and commenting that maybe by the time he gets to be 40 or so, America will be ready for a Black man to be President and I wished him luck. We spoke of the racial tensions I saw at home while growing up and I asked him if he ever saw that overseas or since he returned back to Hawaii. I dont remember his answer, but we spoke more of his time overseas and his thoughts on life and philosophy of government. He made some strange comments to me, it was obvious he never set foot for any time in the continental United States and I told him he better realize that he is making judgments about the United States when he himself never actually lived there. I told him, Hawaii aint the United States!
He also told me something that I never forgot, for it caused me to do some other things in an effort to be nice to him and possibly a favor. We spoke of where I had been and the world as I saw it. I told him I had been to Africa , Mombassa specifically, and he said to me abruptly, I was born there. I told him he is not eligible to be president if that was true, but I remembered he said his mom was an American, so, maybe it was okay.
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My entertainment is seeing the country slowly disillusioned with Hope and Change thinking :."How could this happen?" My response? "How could it not?"
Lucy, thanks for the ping.
Good evening RaceBannon. I believe that an account like yours could certainly be true.
I myseld, Lucas Daniel Smith, was in Mombasa Kenya in February 2009. I gained entry to Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa and was able to procure a certified copy of Barack Obama II’s birth certificate.
I’m interested in hearing more of your account, anything that you can think of.
Thank you.
Good evening RaceBannon. I believe that an account like yours could certainly be true.
I myself, Lucas Daniel Smith, was in Mombasa Kenya in February 2009. I gained entry to Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa and was able to procure a certified copy of Barack Obama II’s birth certificate.
I’m interested in hearing more of your account, anything that you can think of.
Thank you.
Good evening RaceBannon. I believe that an account like yours could certainly be true.
I myself, Lucas Daniel Smith, was in Mombasa Kenya in February 2009. I gained entry to Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa and was able to procure a certified copy of Barack Obama II’s birth certificate.
I’m interested in hearing more of your account, anything that you can think of.
Thank you.
Please pardon my multiple (3 times) post of the same post. It was accidental. I clicked on “Post” but nothing happened for a close to a minute so I clicked again. I will be more careful with my postings form here on out.
Thank you.
When it comes to the translation of what Obama’s Kenyan grandmother said on video, everyone here on this forum is just going off of what they’ve read on the Internet to be the “correct” translation.
I know that Barack Obama II was born in Mombasa. However, I don’t speak Swahili, so I can’t tell you what the Grandmother said. But given that Barack II was born in Mombasa, I lean towards her saying that he was born in Kenya or even specifically Mombasa.
In other countries it would be acceptable for a person of Barack’s color to claim that they are “white.”
In the USA it’s “cool” to be black so everyone with even a little black in their physical characteristics claims that they are BLACK her in the USA. Most whites in the USA view it the same, a little black is all black.
I have traveled the Caribbean and Africa. Barack Obama is in no case a “black man”. Barack is a guy that wants to be a “black guy”.
I used to be in the Navy, Race. You know the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story? A fairy tale begins "Once upon a time . . . . . ". A sea story begins "Now this ain't no sh&t!" Methinks we have a sea story, here, masquerading as a college assignment.
Are you serious??
No, but I like RaceBannon!!!
Tiger Woods and the Crashers are more important!!!
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