Kenya's new prime minister Raila Odinga takes oath of office
(Prime Minister, not President.
Posted on 07/19/2008 5:18:28 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
From the moment Barack Obama appeared on America's national political stage, he was always going to be a controversial figure.
A half-white, half-black man with the poise and rhetorical flights of a Kennedy. A Harvard graduate abandoned by his Kenyan father to be raised by a single white mother. A man with the middle name Hussein running for the White House in post-9/11 America.
Yet, what few could have imagined was the degree of animus he would stir within America's own black community - and, in particular, its African-American leaders.
This week, it was revealed that the Rev. Jesse Jackson, for decades the dominant voice in black politics, had made an off-the-cuff remark into a TV microphone he thought was turned off that Obama was 'talking down to black people - telling n*****s how to behave'.
Jackson's remarks were prompted by a speech the Democrat Presidential candidate had made to a black church in which he dared to criticise young blacks for not completing school and being poor fathers.
'Too many fathers are Missing In Action. Too many blacks are AWOL, missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it,' Obama had said.
Jackson, a former Democrat Presidential candidate himself, has suddenly detonated the race issue which has stalked Obama's every step towards the White House. His use of the explosive N-word - commonplace among young blacks in rap music and entertainment - is extraordinary in a political context, and sent America's liberal commentators into paroxysms.
News bulletins carried warnings that viewers were about to hear a dreadful racial epithet.
Had any white public (or even private) figure used the N-word, they would have been destroyed overnight.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Don’t know. The arguments that I’ve seen for his Arab ancestry consist almost entirely of unsourced assertions and idiotic “reasoning.” I’ve yet to see a detailed family tree for the father’s side of the family.
To top it off, Fred’s earlier citation claims that federal law requires someone to be 1/8 blood before they can claim a given ethnicity. I’ve been unable to find anything that will verify this, and from what I can tell there is no such federal regulation.
If there were, a great many Indian and Native Hawaiians wouldn’t qualify. Clear back in the 1830s many of the leading Cherokee chiefs were 1/8 or less Indian “blood.”
Is anyone else as creeped out as I am by this discussion of “blood quanta?” The use of such criteria for categorizing people has a pretty disqusting history.
my ex-wife is Lebanese of Maronite ancestry yet our oldest daughter (on my page) who lives with me qualifies for Latino minority assistance at her private Church of Christ college which is pretty darn conservative.
a local guy worth probably 100M on a bad day replete with GIV and all the other toys is a local lawyer who because he is like 1/4 or 1/8 Lumbee Indian qualifies for MBE set asides and started a local highway construction outfit which has blossomed into quarries and batch plants and cement too
I don't like it but the quota of blood notion is now the province of the Left, not James Crow.....at all.
We don’t know that for a fact. I base my remarks on conversations with black friends that I have had and I live in the South.
Abbott Vaughn Meader (March 20, 1936 – October 29, 2004) was an American comedian and impersonator whose achievement of fame with The First Family album spoofing President John F. Kennedy was equalled only by his obscurity after Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
it would be nice to see blacks reject Obama as an imposter not good for them but they cannot resist the siren call of what they percieve as racial commonality
in my opinion.
From http://www.stars21.com/translator/latin_to_english.html :
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(IOW, gibberish.)
Barack Obama was a Luo (ie BLACK as COAL) from Kenya, not a SEMITIC Arab.
Obama’s daddy is a Luo. This “half Arab” rumor is popular among the extra chromosome crowd.
Daddy is a LUO, not an Arab.
Kenya's new prime minister Raila Odinga takes oath of office
(Prime Minister, not President.
“But didn’t the whole Arab connection come from this notion that a grandmother (?) on his father’s side was Saudi?”
http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html
homework...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Kenya's opposition leader was sworn into office as the country's prime minister Thursday, fulfilling a key step in a power-sharing deal aimed at ending a deadly political crisis in the East African nation.
Within hours, a feared gang promised to heed new Prime Minister Raila Odinga's call to stop its campaign of terror in the capital — one small sign that resolving Kenya's political crisis could help return peace and stability to the fragile nation.
More than 1,000 people were killed and 300,000 displaced following the December elections that both Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki claimed to win. With the violence escalating, the rivals agreed in February to share power — but then wrangled for weeks over how to divide up their coalition Cabinet.
NO RAILA NO PEACE!
Thanks, I apologize for adding to any confusion. Looks like I hit my information overload point today before I posted that last. But right now I admit to confusion. Who is what?
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/04/17/kenya.cabinet/index.html
NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) — Kenya swore in a new Cabinet on Thursday of more than 90 people, which one Kenyan official described as “a big burden on a poverty-stricken country.”
The ceremony capped months of violence in which about 1,000 people died following last year’s disputed elections. The Cabinet is split 50-50 between former bitter enemies from opposing parties.
After a power-sharing compromise, opposition leader Raila Odinga was sworn in as prime minister, the first person to hold that office since Jomo Kenyatta held it briefly after independence in 1963. Mwai Kibaki remains president.
Hard to read what that means in practice. What I recollect is that in the British type systems a President is ceremonial and a Prime Minister is the power wielder.
from the link: On Thursday, ministers finally took up their positions, 20 each from Kibaki's and Odinga's camps. Kibaki's party retained the key finance and internal security ministries and Raila's allies will head up agriculture and oversee local government.
The entire government, including Odinga, swore an oath of loyalty to the president...
Afro-Arab (sometimes referred to as African Arab) refers to people who possess both black African and Arab ancestry.[1] There are large communities of Afro-Arabs in North Africa, East Africa and some Middle Eastern countries as well as, through recent migrations, Western Europe.
The phrase “Afro-Arab” also refers to African Union efforts to improve co-operation between Africa and countries of the Arab world.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Arab
interesting.....Lamb seems credible to me
Having recently read 'The White Nile' written by Alan Moorehead, published in the UK in 1960, I was reminded of Tippu Tib:
His mother, Bint Habib bin Bushir, was a Muscat Arab of the ruling class. His father and paternal grandfather were coastal Swahili who had taken part in the earliest trading expeditions to the interior. His paternal great-grandmother, wife of Rajab bin Mohammed bin Said el Murgebi was the daughter of Juma bin Mohammed el Nebhani, a member of a respected Muscat (Oman) family, and an African woman from the village of Mbwa Maji, a small village south of the then German capital of Dar es Salaam.
I was surprised to find an image of Tippu Tib on the web. What might he represent? An African-Arab or an Arab-African?
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