Barack Obama Sighting, Hawaii 1980
...A friend of mine sent me this story of his time in the Marine Corps. Read through to the end, it’s a shocker.

I struck up a conversation with a young man, Mulatto, about 18, all teeth, smiling, skinny, short hair...

What strikes me most is what he said as to where he grew up: Indonesia. He told me he wanted to be President of the US someday. I remember lightly smiling and commenting that maybe by the time he gets to be 40 or so, America will be ready for a Black man to be President and I wished him luck...

He also told me something that I never forgot...I told him I had been to Africa , Mombassa specifically, and he said to me abruptly, “I was born there”. I told him he is not eligible to be president if that was true, but I remembered he said his mom was an American, so, maybe it was okay...

It was Barak Obama. I don’t know if I’d bet my life on it, but I am willing to tell people openly at the risk of my ridicule. I was there, and saw him, spoke to him, and he openly told me he was born in Mombassa, Kenya, not Hawaii .

Additionally, over at FreeRepublic RaceBannon seems to be taking credit for writing this. Race's previous history for posting Bancroft material raises the presumption that they're the same person.

Furthermore, and I don't have a link handy this moment, but RaceBannon has a prior history with Alan Peters.

I believe I met Barak Obama in Hawaii in 1980 in Honolulu.

He told me he lived in Hawaii.

He made some strange comments to me, it was obvious he never set foot for any time in the continental United States ...

. . .I struck up a conversation with a young man, Mulatto, about 18, all teeth, smiling, skinny, short hair...

. .I struck up a conversation with a young man, Mulatto, about 18, all teeth, smiling, skinny, short hair...

Do tell.


Except he was living in L.A. at the time, attending Occidental College from '79 to '81. And his mom was in Indonesia from '77 to '94. He could possibly have been visiting his grandparents, but he did NOT live in Hawaii in August 1980.


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How would he know Obama was mulatto? You can't tell just looking at him, can you?

RC2: "Obama has absolutely no military experience. In these days, we need a war time President. Sad to say but that’s just the way it is. Obama only knows what others tell him....that in itself is scarey. One big question is ....who is controlling him."

RaceBannon: "Satan is controlling him"

Whether or not Bancroft wrote it, the fact that it first appeared at Anti-Mullah should be a huge red flag. The guy is strongly anti-Muslim, and has been at the forefront of several Obama rumors. He actually started a particularly big one.

This is just a cultural observation, but in my opinion no American in the 1980s would refer to a light-skinned black man as being "Mulatto."

Good points and here's another. I live in Hawaii. I don't believe that anyone meeting someone in Honolulu who racially resembled Obama would think his ethnicity was a blend of Caucasian and African-American. In Hawaii, a far more likely first assumption would be some mix of Pacific Island heritage. It's possible that the young man announced his ethnicity to this guy, but surprising that with all the other "detail" that's included, that fact is not.

PatGund: Maybe it was that I was a base rat for most of my time living on Oahu, but I seem to recall that there were quite a few "Black Americans" in my elementary schools, (Salt Lake and Chester Nimitz)

But you're right. Anyone who had spent any time in the islands would have thought "hapa-haole" first

Your observations are correct here. Without seeing the parents, no one (in 1980) would use the term "mulatto" to describe a black person. Obama and I have the same complexion. Both my parents are black. Any person that described me as a mulatto (to my face) would quickly discern the error by way of my response. It's never happened in all my life, though.

Also, in 1980 Obama DID wear an afro.

The person who wrote about this confrontation made it up.

"What an unbelievable coincidence that the person to whom Obama admitted a Mombasan birth in 1980 grew up to be an Obama-hating Birther."

Who appears not to have remembered this conversation until roughly 5 years after Obama became a prominent national figure with his speech to the 2004 Democratic convention; 2-3 years after Obama started his campaign for the Presidency and a year after his election.

What's that: quadruple hearsay?

I struck up a conversation with a young man, Mulatto, about 18, all teeth, smiling, skinny, short hair...

Do tell.


Except he was living in L.A. at the time, attending Occidental College from '79 to '81. And his mom was in Indonesia from '77 to '94. He could possibly have been visiting his grandparents, but he did NOT live in Hawaii in August 1980.