If I had the patience, I would transcribe what he did actually have to say in that article dated June 1962...in which, in the second last paragraph he is quoted as saying he had not been back to Kenya for seven years.
Now let's think about that for a moment.
Without that article, we are expected to believe he came from Kenya in 1959...sponsored by Tom Mboya. But it has since been established he was NOT part of the first airlift, he was in Hawaii months before the first airlift contingent arrived at Idlewild in September.
The myth wants us to believe he came straight from Kenya. Where he worked as a Clerk for an arab...no names, no dates.
Yet he speaks (if we can take it that what Ayres wrote reflects what the keynan says in the article) like some kind of world-weary, well travelled, social commentator, with his nose held high...as if there's a smell!
My goodness, when he attended the school at Maseno, the students learned 'useful trades' like carpentry and tailoring...and then he worked for an arab...
JUST WHERE DID HE GET THESE LOFTY IDEAS? I think I can tell you where. HE WAS ON THE MAINLAND US from 1955. And Lord only knows who indoctrinated him to become the elitist SNOB that he was...BEFORE HE CAME TO HAWAII!
Excellent points. I wonder, too.
I thought back last year or so we’d found where he was after the Kenyan school and before coming to America. Can’t remember where it was but iirc his father wasn’t happy about it. Then the “two missionary ladies” chipped in and sent him to somewhere in America before he ended up in Hawaii before the airlift.