Posted on 06/18/2016 10:03:59 PM PDT by thecodont
The archivist stumbled across the file in a stack of boxes on the second floor of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. The yellowing letters inside dated back more than half a century, chronicling the dreams and struggles of a young man in Kenya.
He was ambitious and impetuous, a 22-year-old clerk who could type 75 words a minute and translate English into Swahili. But he had no money for college. So he pounded away on a typewriter in Nairobi, pleading for financial aid from universities and foundations across the Atlantic.
His letters would help change the course of American history.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Obama’s right to reject the memory of his so called father... they guy let him down in every way a man can let a child down.
Remember when typical white woman granny was dying and he raced over there to spend some quality time with her? He spent all of half an hour and I’m betting it was to snatch up that “birth certificate found in the closet” before it got leaked. More than likely, daddy was an unknown one night stand who couldn’t be bothered to leave $1.50 on the nightstand.
The “grandmother” was sequestered from reporters for some time, died of .... something or other, there were different messages about the cause. Zero did not want her questioned at all, nor any opportunity for DNA. Zero and the “grandmother” were not related. SAD was hired nanny at times, not his mother.
FYI
Thanks, I noticed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/nyregion/letters-by-and-about-barack-obamas-father.html
“The papers are rich; they tell a fascinating, traditional, self-made man’s story,” said Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the director of the Schomburg Center...
The bottom of the linked page now shows the documents and correspondence. He showed his birth year as 1934, which later, on the INS docs, became 1936, as it is on his tombstone in the village.
He shows the name of his then wife on his initial application for funds as KESIA AOKO, and has one son. Both are forgotten on most of the INS docs.
http://billmoyers.com/guest/khalil-gibran-muhammad/
Muhammad is the great-grandson of Elijah Muhammad...
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So why, Mohammad, did it take you so long?
I may have turned up something pertinent to Cruz’ citizenship issues.
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Please post the info here for all to read!
Finally there was ONE comment that mentioned Lolo’s contribution to raising Barry as his step-dad. I have a step-son who I partially raised from age 3 (same age as my own son) and is nearly as dear to me as my own son and with split visitation both ways actually closer to me in many ways these days than my own son.
Oh do tell.
Once it’s been made public, the incentive to have you Breibarted drops away.
B T T T
It turns out I have nothing after all. (That’s one reason I held off—to get more facts and insights.) But despite the anticlimax, I’ll delineate what piqued my interest.
In a nutshell, I looked into the Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947, and couldn’t find birthright citizenship in it. This surmise seemed born out by the Birthright Citizenship Act of 1976. I.e.: if they’d already bestowed birthright citizenship in ‘47, why would they need to do a redundant and repetitious act in ‘76?
If that surmise/conclusion was correct, then it could only mean that Cruz got his citizenship via a parent. Since Rafael Sr hadn’t lived there five years, it would have had to come through his mother. She could have naturalized in one year, providing she’d attained British citizenship during her stay in England.
It turns out, however, that lawyers who work directly in this field claim the ‘47 Act does specify birthright citizenship. I find that hard to believe since 1, I didn’t see it spelled out in the Act, and 2, then why DID they feel the need to do again in ‘76 what they’d already done in ‘47?
Nevertheless lawyers who do this work for a living say they’re right and I’m wrong. So as I said, nothing after all.
Btw, here’s the relevant excerpt from the Birthright Act of 1976:
3. (1) Subject to this Act, a person is a citizen if
(a) the person was born in Canada after February 14, 1977; [Cruz was born in ‘70.]
http://meurrensonimmigration.com/canada-and-birthright-citizenship/
born = borne
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