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So Fred, what amazing people these parents were that they could meet and attend classes in a building that had not even been built yet. Must have “super powers”!

And to BP2 at post #44:
Here is the beginning of a transcript of an interview that 0 gave on 8/9/1995 about his book,“Dreams”

http://eyeonbooks.com/obama_transcript.pdf

0: “My father is a black African, was a black African. My mother is a white American. He came to the States to study RIGHT AFTER the independence of Kenya and was part of that first wave of Africans to travel to the West in search of knowledge to bring back to post-independent Africa . . . They came together during the civil rights movement—although they weren’t active. I think they were swept up in the spirit of integrationist America and the dream of Dr. King, and the idealism and optimism of the Kennedys –and ended up separating shortly after. So the book is really me trying to understand what their lives were about and thereby understand what my life is about.”

We know that 0 Sr. was already in Hawaii in summer 1959 and according to your post “constitutional talks” for Kenya weren’t until 1961 and Kenya did not become independent until Dec. 1963. Tsk, tsk it is so bothersome that these real historical dates keep messing up 0’s wonderful little fairy tale.

And from a website: mlkonline a little more history the 0 does not seem to have been aware of:

“Although increasingly portrayed as the pre-eminent black spokesperson, King did not mobilize mass protest activity during the first five years after the Montgomery boycott ended. While King moved cautiously, southern black college students took the initiative, launching a wave of sit-in protests during the winter and spring of 1960. King sympathized with the student movement and spoke at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in April 1960, but he soon became the target of criticisms from SNCC activists determined to assert their independence. Even King’s decision in October, 1960, to join a student sit-in in Atlanta did not allay the tensions, although presidential candidate John F. Kennedy’s sympathetic telephone call to King’s wife, Coretta Scott King, helped attract crucial black support for Kennedy’s successful campaign. The 1961 “Freedom Rides,” which sought to integrate southern transportation facilities, demonstrated that neither King nor Kennedy could control the expanding protest movement spearheaded by students. Conflicts between King and younger militants were also evident when both SCLC and SNCC assisted the Albany (Georgia) Movement’s campaign of mass protests during December of 1961 and the summer of 1962.

After achieving few of his objectives in Albany, King recognized the need to organize a successful protest campaign free of conflicts with SNCC. During the spring of 1963, he and his staff guided mass demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, where local white police officials were known from their anti-black attitudes. Clashes between black demonstrators and police using police dogs and fire hoses generated newspaper headlines through the world. In June, President Kennedy reacted to the Birmingham protests and the obstinacy of segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace by agreed to submit broad civil rights legislation to Congress (which eventually passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964). Subsequent mass demonstrations in many communities culminated in a march on August 28, 1963, that attracted more than 250,000 protesters to Washington, D. C. Addressing the marchers from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” oration.

During the year following the March, King’s renown grew as he became Time magazine’s Man of the Year and, in December 1964, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Despite fame and accolades, however, King faced many challenges to his leadership.”

All of this stuff that 0 thinks was carryin away and inspiring his parents to get together hadn’t even happened yet either until after their “romance” was over with and after he was born.