The sick “birther” nuts and assholes here hang on to every racist conspiracy theory about Obama … as if their whole world depends on it!
Of course Donald Trump built his political reputation in good part by pushing this racist shit for years. He finally backed off from it without apologizing — which may help explain our “Birther Nuts” special insanity.
The ridiculous disgustingly cut-off-short edited version of the “Grandmother” telephone tape recording was NOT with Obama’s real grandmother … but with his step-grandmother. Obama knew and loved this step-grandmother (Sarah Onyango Obama) who raised Obama’s father and died at 91 year of age in 2021). They first met on Obama’s initial trip to Africa in 1988 (his grandfather was dead by then), and they became close:
Sarah Onyango Obama (1922 – March 29, 2021) was a
Kenyan educator and philanthropist [born in Kenya colony]. She was the third wife of Hussein Onyango Obama, the paternal grandfather of U.S. president
Barack Obama and helped raise his father,
Barack Obama Sr. … She lived in
Nyang'oma Kogelo village, 48 km (30 miles) west of western
Kenya's main city,
Kisumu, on the edge of
Lake Victoria.
Obama’s step-grandmother Sarah Obama, when still alive, healthy and respected.
The home where “Granny Sarah” lived.
She first met her step grandson,
Barack Obama II, the future
President of the United States, during his visit to Kenya in 1988. Although she was not a blood relation, Barack Obama called her "Granny Sarah". In addition to mentioning her in his memoir
Dreams from My Father, he spoke about her in his 2014 speech to the
United Nations General Assembly. Sarah, who spoke
Luo and only a few words of English, communicated with President Obama through an interpreter.
During the
U.S. presidential campaign of 2008, she protested attempts to portray Obama as a foreigner to the United States or as a
Muslim, saying that while Obama's grandfather had been a Muslim, "In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents." At one point in her life, she worked as a cook for
Christian missionaries, but Sarah Obama was "a strong believer of
the Islamic faith", in her words. On July 4, 2008, she attended the
United States Independence Day celebrations in Nairobi, hosted by
Michael Ranneberger, the U.S. ambassador in Kenya. The following year, she attended Barack Obama's first presidential inauguration.
In 2010, she created the Mama Sarah Obama Foundation to provide food and education to orphans, even sheltering some of them in her home.
On the occasion of [receiving an award] in 2014 honoring the work of her foundation … she explained, "Our vision is a world where children are nurtured and supported physically, educationally, and emotionally to thrive and succeed in life."
On March 29, 2021 it was announced that Obama had died at the age of 99, in a hospital in
Kisumu,
Western Kenya, having suffered with an undisclosed illness a few days earlier. Following her death, Kenyan President
Uhuru Kenyatta issued a statement praising Obama as strong, virtuous, and "an icon of family values".
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