Just fairy tales it seems.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....tortured-British.html

I wonder how many other such atrocities that are attributed to the British and the British Empire are just 'fairy tales' as some of the content of Obama's 'Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance' appears to be?

/// One of the enduring myths of Obama’s ancestry is that his paternal grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama, who served as a cook in the British Army, was imprisoned in 1949 by the British for helping the anti-colonial Mau Mau rebels and held for several months. ///

/// Maraniss also casts a sceptical eye on Obama’s grandmother’s tales of racism in Kansas, doubting whether she was ever chastised for addressing a black janitor as ‘Mister’ or ridiculed for playing with a black girl.///

/// Obama himself, Maraniss finds, deliberately distorted elements of his own life to fit into a racial narrative. The author writes that Obama presents himself in his memoir as ‘blacker and more disaffected’ than he really was.///

[jno]

[i] Maraniss also casts a sceptical eye on Obama’s grandmother’s tales of racism in Kansas, doubting whether she was ever chastised for addressing a black janitor as ‘Mister’ or ridiculed for playing with a black girl [i]

On what evidence?

[rojash]

//I wonder how many other such atrocities that are attributed to the British and the British Empire are just 'fairy tales'//

Well, it's pretty well documented that the British did indeed torture prisoners.
To imply that they didn't, simply because this story has been cast into doubt, would be like denying the holocaust because you found a Jew who didn't get sent to the gas chambers.

[jake-the-peg]

We have a biography that "claims that he was tortured were a fabrication."

And you've decided that is definately the case with no further evidence?

I do't know enough either way but your haste to jump on one particular side seems a little rapid!

[youngmafbog]

Rojash, AOG asked the question //I wonder how many other such atrocities that are attributed to the British and the British Empire are just 'fairy tales' as some of the content of Obama's 'Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance' appears to be? //

Just where in that did you get he was implying they were all false?

for the record, I'm with Jake. Not enough evidence either way to be conclusive. However Jake, plenty of disgruntled Blacks will be behind the Obama version so perhaps only fitting that some should be on the other as a balance ?

[THEMOTLEY1]

He's a politician, he wouldn't know the truth if it jumped up and bit him!

[Davethedog]

You realise its election year - The birthers have failed miserably, so time for another tack, from the gay bashing mormon.

[FredPuli43]

Ah, yes, the 'war memoirs' of one's grandfather; such a reliable source. I think mine used to say he was shot a dawn.