Obama's father among secret files on Kenyan students

[alp227]

US officials complained Kenyan students were becoming "anti-white" in the year Barack Obama's father enrolled at university, previously secret files released at the National Archives in Kew reveal.

US President Barack Obama wrote with pride of his Kenyan father's studies in the US in his memoir Dream From My Father.

He wrote how he had been "selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States joining the first large wave of Africans to be sent forth to master Western technology and bring it back to forge a new, modern Africa".

But British colonial authorities in Kenya, and the US State Department had concerns about the first large wave of Kenyan students, of which Barrack Obama Sr was part, according to the records released by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17748754

[TomClash]

1. Big deal

There are files on almost everyone.

[EFerrari]

8. Gee, anyone think colonial oppression might engender a little negativity?

LOL

The big deal of this story is that Harry Belafonte and his group had to fight tooth and nail to get that program off the ground. The Brits hated it and did everything in their power to kill it, including holding up the planes.

[Poll_Blind]

2. Well one of those student's son became the President of the United States!

So, to me, that seems that the program worked pretty durn well donthca think? I'm mostly rhetorically replying to the concerns which are a little more clearly mentioned in the full article.

PB

[AnnieBW]

3. Barack Obama Sr. was so anti-white

that he married a white woman!

[TalkingDog]

5. Suggesting what?

What does that have to do with either of their respective races?

This happens. It may not be the norm, but it does happen.

[TalkingDog]

7. To what end? What does his brief marriage have to do with the discussion at hand?

I mean, if we want to make snarky gossip-y comments over the brevity of a legal union, I understand the Kardashians haven't all played out.

[DevonRex]

10. You first got a thrill out of saying he cheated on her, divorced her

and abandoned his son. Why is that?

[alp227]

11. both posts I self deleted, but my point was:

Barack Sr.'s short marriage is a weak argument against the claims he was racist, but these files may not tell the full story of his views on race. I'm still going to dismiss the Glenn Beck/Dinesh D'souza/WND theories about Obama being raised to hate white people.

also I realized I made a factual error in the cheating part so I edited it out.

[EFerrari]

9. That article is hilarious

and reminds me of all the embarrassing @ss covering bs in Cablegate.