Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. He is the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father’s side. While Barack Hussein Obama’s father was from Kenya, his father’s family was mainly Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama’s father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father’s birth certificate even states he’s Arab, not African Negro).
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6. My Name is African Swahili - NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
Actually, Barrack is a perfectly good Swahili name. Just as Joshua is a perfectly good English name, even though it is derived from the Hebrew and means "Jehovah is salvation."
Swahili is a Bantu language heavily influenced by Arabic, just as English it a Teutonic language heavily influenced by French (and other languages).
Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. He is the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side. While Barack Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya, his father's family was mainly Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not African Negro).
Papa Obama was a member of the Luo tribe, a Bantu-speaking group. His photographs make it pretty clear he is largely if not entirely of sub-Saharan ancestry.
I am somewhat skeptical a birth certificate even exists for Obama, Sr. It seems unlikely to me that British East Africa was that bureaucratically organized down to the village level in the 1930s.
Arab traders and raiders were certainly all over East Africa during the pre-British period. This is where the Swahili language comes from. But they didn't settle the shores of Lake Victoria where the Luo lived. While there could certainly be an Arab in the Obama woodpile somewhere, I have seen absolutely no evidence that this is the case.
I am also curious why you think Obama's paternal ancestry is particularly relevant.