The story is that Sr. went back to Hawaii around the ‘71/72 holiday season (per airport photos) to take care of family stuff. A student at the Punahou School said Hussein “won” a scholarship and he claimed he was the son of an African prince.
Total speculation here but in most cases of kids getting sent away in second marriages is problems with step-parents. Ann has two choices 1) send him to Kenya with Sr. except Keziah wasn’t too happy with the white wife so she certainly wouldn’t want to raise the half white kid, or 2) send him to the US but there might have been legal problems giving the grandparents some sort of custody what with the adoption and possible Indonesian citizenship.
It would be a win-win for everyone for Sr. to come back to Hawaii to deal with any legal issues. Lolo gets rid of the step kid. Ann has her son back in America. Sr. takes a few weeks to take care of the family matter and can go back to Africa without a guilty conscience. Keziah doesn’t have to raise the white kid. The Punahou School gets to brag they have enrolled the son of an African prince and have given him a scholarship which they can write off their taxes because it’s for poor, impoverished, in transition, Kenya. The Dunhams aren’t out any private school tuition for the grandkid. And little Barry can carve “King Obama” into the sidewalk.
Thank you for that reply and as I suspected, Barry was a problem child. Possibly some sibling rivalry with baby sis, child of Soetero? Who knows, but there was a problem.
I saw that pic of “King Obama” on the sidewalk so I believe he was told such and believes it to this day. That he is an “African King”. Perhaps he is but he certainly isn’t my “King” and ergo, the problem in America.
Great posts, BTW. Nite.