Other background information that seems to have faded into the woodwork. According to an independent journalist, Kenneth Lamb, who investigated Obama’s family background, the entire family is Arabic Muslim, and Barack’s original ancestors were slave traders who moved into Kenya after helping the British against the Mahdi.
Lamb investigated the Kenya background for a NYC newspaper, which then declined to print the results. He has sometimes been published in the NY Times, which (speculatively) may have been the newspaper in question (my guess).
Some of these Arabs intermarried with blacks—who also were Muslims, or had black concubines, so the racial mixture is presumably part Arab and part black.
This investigator estimated that Obama’s father was 1/8 black, which would make Obama 1/2 white, 7/16 arab, and 1/16 black.
Link:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/02/obama-arab-amer.html
And here’s the full version on Kenneth Lamb’s own blog.
It’s a bit confusing, because he starts out with some letters to a Washington Post reporter who had also raised some questions.
But it’s worth a full read. And as far as I know, it has never been satisfactorily answered.
http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html
Basically, the upshot is that, to be legally “African American” or “Black” in the US requires you to be at least 1/8 black. But Obama is probably no more than 1/16 black.
Why are the press so incurious about Obama’s Kenyan background, or his political relations with his Muslim terrorist, church-burning Kenyan cousin, Odinga?
Months ago I read that BHO’s ancestry was ONLY 1/16 black. It may have been in a Lamb article.
Race is no longer defined by "genealogical or anthropological" characteristics as illustrated in my article. Race is now a matter of "sociopolitical self-identification." The Bureau now allows an individual to classify him- or her- self by as many, and whatever, "sociopolitical self-identification" classification(s) appeals to the individual. You can be African-American today, change your mind and be Native-American tomorrow, add Asian the day following, and toss them all out the next day and classify yourself whatever you please the day after that. So as it stands now with this change in the law, Sen. Obama is legally anything he wants to be. Any of us are; more on that in a moment.....
IMHO,These inquiries into the Obama bloodline are a dead end; a waste of time and energy. Even his murky citizenship issue is apparently going nowhere. Where this outrageous charlatan has to be nailed first, is on his connection to Ayers and Dohrn, and his wife's connection to Ayers and Dohrn. Furthermore, it must be spelled out that the campaign of the Democrats derives from the Alinsky play-book, as interpreted by Bill Ayers. Of course these ideas resonate around here, but how does one sell it in the Wal-Mart parking lot?
This is, BTW, the first time I have ever heard a presidential candidate openly attacking the opposition's Vice-Presidential candidate. It must be meant to keep the Biden-Clymer out of the spotlight, stumbling and mumbling; threatening to arrest Bush and Cheney, when he and The Anointed One assume power, etc. ad nauseam.