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Why don't you look up the lineage of his parents.

OK.

"Obama's father was Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya." --Wikipedia

Also: "The Luo (also called Jaluo and Joluo) are an ethnic group in Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania. They are part of a larger group of ethnolinguistically related Luo peoples who inhabit an area including southern Sudan, northern and eastern Uganda, western Kenya, and northern Tanzania."

So what's the problem? No "wikipedia sucks and is unreliable because I could say he's from Jerkwater, East Dakota," please.

> "Obama's father was Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya."

And look up his parents next.

Wikipedia doesn't have much information about this, so here:

http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questio...

If you think this is mistaken, please provide a refutation, or a source giving equally detailed, contradictory claims.

That link says that Barack Obama, Jr.'s non-European half is mainly arabic, and so much so that he is not racially afroid enough to qualify for minority status as a black American. If that were true, wouldn't you think that Steve Sailer would be repeating the same thing, insteading of claiming that Barack Obama, Jr. is fully half Nilotic?

I dunno. Do you have a source that you think is persuasive, or not?

There is this article:

http://www.vdare.com/sailer/081207_rumors.htm

December 07, 2008

Obama Rumors Untrue—And Less Interesting Than The Truth

By Steve Sailer

Many wild rumors have circulated about Barack Obama, such as

That he was really born in Kenya and thus isn’t eligible to be President.

That he isn’t black because his father was 7/8ths Arab.

...

You probably got an email or two asserting that Obama’s father was Arab, not black.

Actually, he was black. Here’s a picture of Barack Obama Sr., with Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham.

Obama Sr. might have had a tiny bit of ancestry from an Arab slave trader or two to whom his African ancestors sold captured black slaves, but he sure wasn’t 7/8ths Arab. In his memoir, Obama rightly calls his father "black as pitch" and refers to his father's tribe as "as ink-black Luo". Here's a picture comparing father and son:

That article links to this blogpost:

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-is-not-716th-arab.h...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Obama is not 7/16th Arab

For awhile, a story has been going around that Sen. Barack Obama Jr. isn't really African-American at all, that he's 7/16th Arab and only 1/16th sub-Saharan African. Well, it's not true. Here's a picture of his parents.

It's quite possible that Barack Obama Sr. might have been a little bit Arab, and it's certainly possible that some of Sen. Obama's ancestors sold their fellow black Africans to Arab slavetraders. But this rumor that Barack Obama Sr. was 7/8th Arab is silly.

That is the entire blogpost. It simply contains a picture of Barack Obama's parents, as proof-enough that his father was Nilotic rather than Arabic.

Your argument is that various people look black in pictures? To me that sounds like an admission of not having done proper research into the matter.

Your argument is that various people look black in pictures?

Here's another Obama, Sr. pic:

http://conservablogs.com/velvethammer/wp-content/uploads/200...

Do the nose, lips, or hair look Arabic?

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