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		<title>A salute to President Barack Obama&#8217;s father</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I headed out the door to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44Th President of the United States, I thought about his late father. Much of what we’ve heard about the president’s &#8220;Old Man&#8221; has been from the president himself and others who knew very little about him. But the elder Obama’s is a story of the African immigrant — a story of a people who come to a new country and learn so fast to become the most educated group. What follows is an except from my stand-up comedy set performed on Sunday at The African Inaugural Ball in Silver Spring, MD. Part true, part fiction, the account is based on my life and the stories of other African immigrants in the United States. Knowing what I know about the Old Man &#8211;  and having grown up in the same area as he, I have no doubt he would have appreciated the humor. Don’t hate; Inaugurate! FOR MOST OF US, the story begins in a little hut in rural Africa and ends in a big white house in America. But that journey is not easy. It continues when you get to America as an exchange student. [...]]]></description>
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