[Clemenza]

Barack Obama Sr was a black Luo, NOT an Arab as some paint chip
eaters on the web claim. He would be a pardo (mixed) in my wife’s country, but that makes him black in the US (where we have stupidly refused to acknowledge mixed race/multiracial as a category).

[Texas Fossil]

Luo? Yes

But, how do you explain all Arab names in his father's family?

Barrack is an Arabic name.

Barack بارك‎, Bārak

Hussein is an Arabic name.

HUSSEIN حسين

Pic in Somali tribal clothes:

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/obama-somali-muslim-garb.jpg

Now you explain it.

[JimRed]

He would be a pardo (mixed) in my wife’s country, but that makes him black in the US (where we have stupidly refused to acknowledge mixed race/multiracial as a category).

Ah, yes, the ol' racist "one drop" rule.

[Windflier]

He would be a pardo (mixed) in my wife’s country, but that makes him black in the US (where we have stupidly refused to acknowledge mixed race/multiracial as a category).

As a pardo myself, I honestly do not give a damn about DNA, and what sort of racial mix anyone is. Like most Americans, I'm so far past that point, that it wearies me to even have to talk about it.

Still, it's something that has to be confronted, because it simply IS. It's why I posted the article. For whatever reason, most blacks have intentionally herded themselves into a separate group, and supported Obama because he was 'one of them', never bothering to examine his background, his record, or his stated policies.

For some blacks, Obama is a crushing real life lesson in the pitfalls of race identity politics and leftist governance.