Yes. And that's precisely why I'm analogizing that to the Obama birther "conspiracy within a conspiracy" that Obama really didn't even have a Kenya father. It is a complete contrivance and bull$%#%.
Maybe. There is so much noise surrounding the issue that it is nearly impossible to reliably conclude one way or the other. For example, a week or two ago I watched a very well put together video titled "Dreams of My Real Father". It asserted that Obama was indeed born in Hawaii. His mother, a somewhat stupid girl rebelling against daddy having taken her from her high school friends in MA (IIRC) and plonking her in HI, had opened her legs for Frank Marshall Davis after falling for what I can only describe as a textbook line of shit from a degenerate. Predictably, she became pregnant and her father, allegedly a CIA agent, could not have a family tie with a god for nothing commie punk like that. So he convinced (with money) Barack Obama Snr. to say he was Jr.'s daddy, and the rest is history, as they say.
It is a rather compelling production, though one thing bothered me about it. In those days to have some black guy (really any guy, but black being WAY worse) seduce and knock up your daughter would have been more an issue than the fact that he was a commie bowel-movement. It is difficult to believe dad had no notable desire to hunt Davis like an animal and cut on him in ways that would have made Mao wince. That this was not even mentioned struck me as odd, though in retrospect I can see that perhaps such possible facts would be irrelevant to the key points of the narrative. I don't know.
Then OTOH there is the whole birth certificate deal. Issue a fucked JPG while calling it "untouched" and you are going to justifiably raise eyebrows. If Obama had really wanted to settle the issue, he would have produced the paper in hand and allowed the press to photograph it. There are many ways he could have approached this such that the issue would have been settled. But instead he gave people grist for the mill. He was a shady character from the get-go, and now more questionable behavior. Just how stupid does the "left" feel that people must be, that they should blindly accept suspicious behaviors as truth without question? It is not even remotely reasonable.
But the fact that so much noise, much of it clearly unnecessary, has been injected into the stream suggests there is likely
something to hide.
At this point I don't think anyone is likely to be satisfied.
Chris Tucker provides incontrovertible proof that at least one black person who was never born in Africa considers Africa "home."
Yeah well, he's an idiot, so...
That means that Michelle and Barack Obama could consider Kenya to be Barack's "homeland" without Barack having been born there simply based on the fact that Barack's father was born there.
You're reaching, it seems.
For he record I actually am black, have been for my entire life, have been immersed in black culture for my entire life, and I can honestly say that most black people I know refer to Africa as their "homeland" or "mother land" or "mother Africa" or some other saying that means the same thing.
I've seen this nonsense and all I can say is most of them can't find fucking Africa on a map. It is ridiculous. I had to take a "black studies" class at CCNY for my degree in education, taught by one Kamuti Kiteme from Kenya. He routinely embarrassed the living shit out of me, the only white boy in the class, because I was the only one who knew the first damned thing about Africa. It was the one aspect of the class that was unpleasant. What I saw was a lot of talk and chest pounding about Africa this and Africa that and how this one was descended from the Mandinka warriors and so on and so forth. But when it came to making hay on the claims, everyone fell on their faces and Kiteme was disgusted with it, once going on a diatribe about why the white man has no respect for the black and that it was because of the attitude of the black man in America and not because the white man is an evil racist. That was another of those incidents where I tried to shrink between the cracks in the floor tiles.
I would also point out that Africa is not a "black" continent. It is also Arab, as well as several other popular divisions. So to go on about "Africa" like that makes one look like a complete idiot because I don't think Tunisia and the rest of northern Africa hold much historical value for black folk. I do not recall too many black slaves having come from anywhere other than western Africa.
All the talk of Africa being home to people who cannot find it on a map of the world rings a mite hollow.
