El Rushbo seems to be losing his mind. Last week, Limbaugh insisted that Barack Obama was a "Chicago Thug" before he wrote an op-ed describing Obama as a segregationist like George Wallace. Before that, Limbaugh was arguing that Obama should "renounce his race and become white" before deciding that Obama has "disowned his white half." Now, Limbaugh has declared that Obama is an "Arab" because he's from "an Arab part of Africa."
These polls on how one-third of blue-collar white Democrats won't vote for Obama because he's black, and -- but he's not black. Do you know he has not one shred of African-American blood? He doesn't have any African -- that's why when they asked whether he was authentic, whether he's down for the struggle. He's Arab. You know, he's from Africa. He's from Arab parts of Africa. He's not -- his father was -- he's not African-American. The last thing that he is is African-American.
Well, Barack Obama Sr. was from Kenya, which is in East Africa. The CIA Factbook has a summary of ethnic groups in Kenya, broken down by percentages:
Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1%So despite Limbaugh's initial, compelling argument, Arabs make up less than 1% of the population, which, I suppose, suggests Kenya isn't actually an Arab part of Africa, but maybe Limbaugh is operating off of some crazy African/Arab One Drop rule.
Of the groups above, Obama is descended from the Luo, but what does this mean in the American context? Fortunately, as a mathematical genius, I've developed an elaborate but very secret mathematical theorem for answering this very question. Let's see, if we carry the one...divide the sum by the lowest common denominator...multiply by three Dunhams...take the bones out of our noses...we can get a definitive solution to the question of Obama's race:
He's black. But you knew that. How else could Obama be so many scary and contradictory things all at once?
--A. Serwer
