Everybody knows my story. It ain't no secret. I came over on a banana boat, landed in New York Harbour, lived in New York for a few years, then moved to Chicago. I got my citizenship papers 3 years after arrivin' in the USA. I am as American as hotdogs and baseball, but still proud of my African heritage.

My point about the Constitution was this: the only time you hear people talkin' about the Constitution is when they are out to tear down somebody's political reputation over some technicality, and it AIN'T because they love the Constitution!!! No, sir. It is because they just want to use it as a handy excuse to attack their political enemies...and any excuse will do. Any excuse at all. The issue ain't the Constitution. The issue is the intent to destroy a political enemy by any excuse possible, includin' Constitutional technicalities if you can scrounge up one somewhere.

And THAT is what is so hypocritical about people goin' after either me OR Obama for bein' "born in Africa". It don't matter where someone was born. It matters how they grew up AFTER they was born, and what they came to believe in AFTER they was born...and that is a whole lifetime story, not a story of one's original birthplace. A person has gotta be measured by the story of their WHOLE life...not just the story of which municipality they was born in! People ain't "born" African, American or anything else, cos babies don't HAVE any political opinions yet nor any nationality ideas in their heads either. They are innocent children of the whole world when they are born.

That's what I was born: a citizen of the World. The World includes the USA, last time I heard.

- Chongo