From Wikipedia
"The Brinks robbery of 1981 (October 20, 1981) was an armed robbery carried out by Black Liberation Army members Jeral Wayne Williams (aka Mutulu Shakur), Donald Weems (aka Kuwasi Balagoon), Samuel Smith, Nathaniel Burns (aka Sekou Odinga), Cecilio "Chui" Ferguson, Samuel Brown (aka Solomon Bouines), and several former members of the Weather Underground, now belonging to the May 19 Communist Organization (David Gilbert, Samuel Brown, Judith Alice Clark, Kathy Boudin, and Marilyn Buck), and an unknown number of accomplices.[1] They stole $1.6 million from a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall, in Nanuet, New York, killing two police officers, Edward O'Grady and Waverly Brown, and a Brinks guard, Peter Paige.
( Notice the name 'Odinga'. Where did that come from? Oddly, Baracks supposed distant cousin, Luo Raila ODINGAthe Nigerian thug leader, whom Barack has met and is from his fathers tribe. Small world. )
At Columbia Wiki for Obama....
"Many Columbia students are audaciously hoping he'll win his primary and the national election. If he does, he will not only be the first partially black president, but the first attendee of Columbia College, and the first graduate of any Columbia school[1], to occupy the Oval Office. Obama is currently the first Columbia College alumnus to be nominated by a major modern party ticket, and the first CC alum to be a major party nominee since the Federalists nominated DeWitt Clinton in 1812.
Obama, however, tends to forget/ignore his Columbia (Why?)affiliation, preferring to mention that he attended Harvard Law School. He has repeatedly turned down requests to be the Class Day speaker in recent years, as well as general requests to appear from the College Democrats. He did, however, note that Columbia was his alma mater while visiting during the ServiceNation Presidential Candidates Forum, and sent a letter to the attendees of the Class of 1983's 25th reunion gathering.
Columbia at that time did not guarantee university housing for all students, so Obama lived off campus. He claims to have spent his first night sleeping in an alley near the corner of 109th and Amsterdam Avenue and washing with the homeless next to an open fire hydrant.(Yeah,right) He eventually moved into a walkup on E. 94th St., in East Harlem, where he would "chat with his Puerto Rican neighbors about...the sound of gunfire at night".[2]
When he was on campus, he concentrated on academic work, spending most of his time in Butler Library "like a monk", and made few friends. He also took up jogging and "stopped getting high". The racist and anti-Semitic graffiti he sometimes encountered on bathroom walls on campus (how times never change!) helped him form his ideas about race and class.(from bathroom graffiti?) He wrote of "the almost mathematical precision( very Marxist ) with which America’s race and class problems joined; the depth, the ferocity, of resulting tribal wars; the bile that flowed freely not just out on the streets but in the stalls of Columbia’s bathrooms as well".[3]
Obama claims to have participated to some extent in anti-apartheid activities with the Black Students Organization, but no one is quite sure.(On or off campus?)
He majored in PoliSci, and claims to have concentrated in "International Relations," (now International Politics - this is a subfield of the PoliSci major and should not be confused with a "concentration," the Columbia term that substitutes for what most schools term a "minor"). Obama's professors and classmates, including former international politics professor Michael Baron and current MTV president Michael Wolf, confirm that he was a brilliant, standout student and that he was an active participant in seminars. Baron said he was one of the top one or two students in his class. Despite this, Obama continually declines requests to release his Columbia transcript.
Sources first differed on whether he wrote his senior thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament[4] or the North-South debate on trade and the "new international economic order"[5]. Later, it emerged that he had not really written an official thesis at all: students were not required to do so at the time, and what counted as a "thesis" was really a long seminar paper. Obama wrote his for Prof. Baron's American Foreign Policy class. A search has been launched[6] for a copy of the paper, which was confirmed to have been on the topic of Soviet disarmament. Baron, Obama's de facto "thesis" advisor, is now retired to Florida, and claims to have lost his copy of the paper in a move some time ago.
It has been reported that Obama graduated without honors[7], but if the policies then were the same as they are today, he would not have been eligible for latin honors, because he spent only two years in the college. Obama hoped to become a community organizer, but could not find work as one, and joined a small consulting firm instead. In his memoir, he portrays this as a big corporate job, and claims it prompted fears he was becoming a sellout. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Bombs, cop killings, Weather Underground.....and Obama was in the library, not getting good grades and no one remembers him.....at Columbia.
Jeral Wayne Williams (aka Mutulu Shakur)
“...Shakur is the stepfather of late rapper Tupac Shakur, and father of rapper Mopreme....” (Wikipedia)