A Kenyan lawmaker told the nation's parliament last month that Barack
Obama was born in Africa and is therefore "not even a native American."
During debate over the draft of a new Kenyan constitution, James
Orengo, the country's minister of lands and a member of parliament
for the Ugenya constituency, cited America's election of a Kenyan-born
president as an example of what can be accomplished when diverse peoples
unite:
"If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity
and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation," Orengo posited,
"how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native
American, become the president of America?"
Orengo held up the U.S. as a country no longer "living in the
past," since Americans elected a Kenyan-born president without regard to
"ethnic consideration and objectives." more>>>>>>>>>>
