Obama is the decendant of native Africans, not slaves. It can be argued that Obama's ancestors were the ones who SOLD their brothers into slavery for "a handful of trinkets and beads".
Not from Kenya which is in east Africa
Obama is the decendant of native Africans, not slaves. It can be argued that Obama's ancestors were the ones who SOLD their brothers into slavery for "a handful of trinkets and beads".
That's why it would be interesting! There are only three possible answers: 1) No reparations, which angers the Jesse Jackson blacks; 2) Reparations, which exposes him to be the ultimate liberal to white America; 3) Conditional reparations, where Jesse can have them, but Obama cannot. This raises the question of how the reparations are to be calculated, and we have the same ugly business of figuring out what percentage each black person is the descendant of slaves, sort of like the rules of the Jim Crow era had for figuring out who could marry a white person.
I'd love to see Obama talk his way out of that issue!