Out of Africa
The Kenyan politician who made Barack Obama
Obama's rise to the presidency is a vindication of this vision of post- racialism, and the impact it has had on American democracy illuminates an even more profound observation Mboya offered, almost in passing, about race in America. Commenting on the gains that blacks had made in Africa and elsewhere in the 1960s, he wrote that American society had "been forced to undergo a genuine social revolution in response to the black struggle." This was true as far ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Barrack Obama was abandoned by his father shortly after birth and had virtually nothing to do with him ever or made any contribution to his upbringing their-after. While we as a nation should make every effort to help those whom we can around the world, we have no special obligation for any reason to Kenya via Pres. Obama. Barrack was raised totally by his Mother and American Grandparents,