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Hi, <br />
Hi, <br />
My apologies for coming down on you so hard last time you attempted to remove this comment, MattF. I hadn't done me research and seen that you were the one who added it. I assume I was distracted by other vandalism at the time, but in any case, I should have looked. --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 19:20, 16 October 2017 (EDT)
My apologies for coming down on you so hard last time you attempted to remove this comment, MattF. I hadn't done me research and seen that you were the one who added it. I assume I was distracted by other vandalism at the time, but in any case, I should have looked. --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 19:20, 16 October 2017 (EDT)
== Obama's Ancestry? ==
"Barack Obama has no bloodline tracing back to American blacks. Obama was raised by his white mother and white grandparents and has little in common with the attitudes and experiences of American blacks."
I'm not sure this is true. In July 2012, Ancestry.com found a strong likelihood that his (Obama's) mother, Stanley Ann Dunham was descended from John Punch, an enslaved African man who lived in the Colony of Virginia during the seventeenth century. And anyway, Obama's a black American himself, surely his "bloodline' doesn't matter? We really shouldn't be talking about ethnic purity and things like that, considering we're all against racism here. I mean, they say mixed-race people always do well for themselves (look at successful policians like Donald Trump - part German, Scottish, Slovenian/Czech by marriage - and Boris Johnson - part English, Russian, Turkish, Jewish, American, French, German, Polish).