Barack Obama Was Not Born in Florida by Shale Stone June 2, 2011 No, this is not a part of those conspiracy fools challenge to Obama's birthplace. I fully accept that he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in August 1961. I'm just pointing out an interesting fact of history that he would likely not have been born in Florida in 1961and if he were, it would be a story unto itself how that came about. For in 1961 it was not legal in Florida or 21 other backward states for Obama's white mother and African father to be married or have any kind of intimate relationship. Which, brings me to the dirty little secret not taught in American History and perhaps not known by many young people these days about the extent of our "apartheid" in the United States. Oh, they may have knowledge of segregation and think it was about eating in restaurants, sitting on buses and going to school but it was more insidious than that. It was about laws forbidding people like Obama's parents from living with the person they loved because they were of different races. Of course those laws were eventually, belatedly, determined to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 12, 1967 in the Loving versus Virginia case. Here, for those of you who slept thru American History, or who were denied this valuable piece of history that was perhaps left out of the school curriculum is the story: In 1958, two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the DC because Virginia law forbade whites and blacks from marrying. When they went back home they were sentenced to a year in jail, or they could leave the state and not come back for 25 years. They appealed this verdict all the way to the U.S. Supreme court where as they say, the rest is history. Except that very few Americans know this history. My wife and I benefited from this history and it irritates me that this forgotten civil rights case does not get recognition. It may be out of national embarrassment that we try to forget it but I would like to see June 12, noted annually as "Loving Day." With Obama, our first mixed race president (sorry, but to call him 'black' is a submission to the 'one-drop rule' of the Jim Crow days) it seems a good time to acknowledge that we have moved beyond the legal racism of the time of his birth, which could not have been in Florida.
Nice story. when Obma was in Ireland some time ago..he said he has Irish in his blood. don't know if this is true?
all i can say is wow. i knew at the time i was in school, which was before 1967, i graduated high school in 66, that so much was being deliberately left out of u.s. history. i mean what we were being taught was so blatantly inconsistent, that i was too disappointing and disgusted with it, that i basically couldn't stand to make the happy answers on tests, and instead let it be one of my worst and most hated subjects. i'm certain if i had persued REAL scholarship in it, i'd have gotten, if anything, graded even worse.
They didn't teach that in my history classes in the 90's. When I took some college courses though they touched over a little bit more of this stuff. The information's out there if you want it.
it is, check out the link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...bamas-Irish-roots-traced-back-to-village.html there's no-one as irish as barack o'bama x
I'm wondering exactly why he couldn't of just said that he's from Hawaii.... Also I never heard of that act but I'm glad that crap isn't still being enforced.
