[cookcounty]

"Obama is 6.25% Native African or Black

Wow. My elderly mother-in-law lives with us and is from North Africa. When she saw Barack on TV she said "He's an Arab!"

I said "No, it's just an Arab name"

She insisted "No, he's an Arab"

I said "Mom, he's black on his fathers side, he's African."

She insisted: "Look at his face..he's an Arab! maybe a little black, but he's an Arab!" followed by lots of gutteral cursings which I cannot fathom

.....I gave up in exasperation, thinking "gosh, she's prejudiced."

But now I'm wondering if maybe she's right. ----on the other hand, in the photos, Barack's dad is very dark.

[Calpernia]

Dark has nothing to do with it. Omani Arabs are dark and migrated into East Africa a long time ago. They have been slaughtering, enslaving and trafficking Native Africans since.