There was another set of records released today about Barack
Obama's family: his father's immigration file, which were
obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request   by
the Arizona Independent  Andrew Rice, a writer who has written
extensively about Africa, perused the documents and has come to
a pretty shocking conclusion: the reason Barack Obama Sr. was
forced to leave Harvard, and ultimately America, was because of
racist attitudes about miscegenation.  In a piece for Capital
New York, Rice argues that the documents reveal "a subtle,
institutionalized conspiracy that in a way seems more insidious
than overt cross-burning racism, because almost surely none of
its participants thought of their actions as discriminatory at
all." What might those actions be? The first unusual item in the
elder Obama's file, Rice explains, is a 1961 memo from a
University of Hawaii adviser notifying the INS of Obama Sr.'s
marriage to Ann Dunham, despite his having a wife in Kenya.
[T]he informant noted that he had bee