From: Jeremy Kinyanjui
Did you know that Dr. Auma Obama, President Barack Obama’s Kenyan half-sister, is the only member of Kenya’s “K’Obama Clan”, the only member amongst President Obama’s Kenyan relatives, that then US President-elect Barack Obama paid a personal tribute to in his historic acceptance speech as US President-elect at Grant Park, Chicago, on 4th November 2008?
In his said 17 minute acceptance speech of 4th November 2008 Barack began by paying glowing tribute to his opponent in the 2008 US Presidential election Senator John McCain, then paid glowing tribute to his 2008 running mate Vice President elect Joe Biden. Barack then went on to pay glowing tribute to his wife Michelle and their two daughters Sasha & Malia. After this Barack, paid glowing tribute to his maternal grandmother Madeleine Dunham, though he interestingly omitted paying personal tribute to either his mother Ann Dunham or his maternal grandfather Stanley Dunham. Barack paid tribute to the family on his mother’s side using the following words: “And though I know my grandmother is no longer with us, I know that she is watching along with the family that made me who I am; I miss them tonight; My debt to them is beyond measure”.
It is interesting that Barack did not pay a personal tribute to his maternal grandfather Stanley Dunham in his said 4th November 2008 acceptance speech, because Barack speaks rather highly of his maternal grandfather Stanley Dunham in his book “Dreams from my Father”, mentioning how his maternal grandfather had time for him when he was under the care of his grandparents while growing up in Hawaii.
After this Barack paid tribute to his Indonesian half-sister Maya and then his Kenyan half-sister Auma. After paying personal tribute to both Maya and Auma, Barack concluded his tributes to both sides of his family by thanking “all my other brothers & sisters for all the support you have given me.” Barack then paid glowing tributes to his campaign manager David Plouffe, his chief strategist David Axelrod, and above all, all Americans. He said he was “never the likeliest candidate for the presidency”, before paying personal tribute to 106 year old Ann Nixon Cooper, one of the voters in the 4th November 2008 US Presidential election, using Ann Nixon Cooper as a glowing example of the strides that America had made i.e. Ann Nixon Cooper was born just one generation after slavery, a time when someone like her could not vote for two reasons i.e. because she was a woman and because of the colour of her skin i.e. she was Black. Barack then concluded by making a passionate appeal for Americans to unify.
Download the accompanying attachment & listen to Barack’s said historic 17 minute speech, a 43 MB file
Jeremy Kinyanjui shared this file from Dropbox:
zip President-Elect Barack Obama on Election Night – YouTube.zip
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i2gk31s2ft28ltv/President-Elect%20Barack%20Obama%20on%20Election%20Night%20-%20YouTube.zip