Accurate posts.
But didn’t the whole Arab connection come from this notion that a grandmother (?) on his father’s side was Saudi?
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.
“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
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