Obama Speak from the Obama File
Obama told a Selma audience how he had been conceived by his parents because they had been inspired by the fervor following the “Bloody Sunday” voting rights demonstration in Selma, Alabama. “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama,” he said. “Because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama.”
Small detail — Obama was born in 1961 — the Selma march occurred in 1965 — four years later — oops!
“My father served in World War II, and when he came home, he got the services that he needed.”
Obama’s father was nine, maybe ten, years old when World War II ended in August, 1945. Obama’s father, Senior, never served in any army, but was very close to the leadership of the Mau Mau, as was his father, Hussein..
It was his grandfather, Hussein, who served in World War II — in the British Army — in Burma — when he returned to Kenya, he became a spy for the Mau Mau. They were the guys that sent Senior off to the University of Hawaii. One might say that, indirectly, the Mau Mau uprising is the movement that begat Barack.
