WTF?! The Kenyan flag was just carried in by a white swimmer?!

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11 years ago 07/29/2012 2:39am EDT

re: Hijab

quote]Hijab wrote:

Kenyano wrote:
As stupid as usual are the Kenyan team organizers.

This is nothing to do with stupidity. Quite the opposite. The more senior/accomplished athletes chose to stay on in Kenya to carry on training in the high altitude and travel just before their event dates. Jason Dunford is born and bred Kenyan and an accomplished swimmer by any standard. For those who don't know, there is a huge Asian and caucasian population in kenya, many going back several generations and bearing Kenyan passports. Proudly, I might add. I should know. I'm a white Kenyan.

11 years ago 07/29/2012 8:30am EDT

re: Mkimbizi

Gawd, the stupidity of you guys. There's always been a a white, Indian (East Indian) and Arab minority in Kenya. Jason Dunford is not a recent immigrant like Lopez, he's third or fourth generation Kenyan meaning his family has been in Kenya longer than some white American's families have been in the US.

And yes, he's done more for Kenyan swimming than anyone in our history. Kids are taking up the sport. Of the current crop of Olympians, I'd say only Rudisha and Kemboi are more popular.

11 years ago 07/29/2012 11:29am EDT

re: Kenyanna

just checking in with some sense ( I researched this a bit). whites actually got to Kenya before they came to America. About 200 years earlier,that is if you count Europeans, But Arabs have been in Kenya, for thousands of years. Swahili, the national language of Kenya actually is a mixture of Bantu languages and Arab.

Why then are Kenyans not muslims? you might ask, Did Arabs treat Africans well? No, That explains why there we not many black Muslims in Kenya because of the insidious form of islam that was introduced. The black communities in the middle east are of East African Slave origin and even those in Turkey

11 years ago 07/29/2012 11:45am EDT

re: The Stache

11 years ago 07/30/2012 1:26am EDT

re: The Stache

If there is anything I hate as much as white racists it is black racists!

The Stache wrote:
How did that come about?

11 years ago 07/31/2012 9:24am EDT

re: Explainer to the Morons

Explainer to the Morons wrote:
just checking in with some sense ( I researched this a bit). whites actually got to Kenya before they came to America. About 200 years earlier,that is if you count Europeans, But Arabs have been in Kenya, for thousands of years. Swahili, the national language of Kenya actually is a mixture of Bantu languages and Arab.
Why then are Kenyans not muslims? you might ask, Did Arabs treat Africans well? No, That explains why there we not many black Muslims in Kenya because of the insidious form of islam that was introduced. The black communities in the middle east are of East African Slave origin and even those in Turkey

The Arabs/Persians were first to occupy the Kenyan coast around the 9th century AD. They were overthrown by the Portuguese before Columbus saw America, the Arabs managed to kick them out and they, in turn were crushed by the Brits who held on until independece in 1963. Dunford is a descendant of these colonials.

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