In an isolated Alaskan town, a young man is tortured and killed. Among the accused: a Kenyan refugee whose dogged pursuit of the American dream may have made him crack.
Up until a few weeks ago, the story of David Ngaruri Kenney was an uplifting saga, the kind of trauma-to-triumph tale that reminds us the American dream is alive.
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Tortured in his native Kenya as a child after leading a boycott against the government's treatment of his fellow tea farmers in the 1990s, Kenney found refuge in the United States, earning a basketball scholarship without ever having put up a single jump shot. He worked his way through Catholic University's Columbus School of Law, got married, and had two precocious, fearless children with a successful attorney he met at a law-school party in Washington, D.C. He penned an award-winning...
Up until a few weeks ago, the story of David Ngaruri Kenney was an uplifting saga, the kind of trauma-to-triumph tale that reminds us the American dream is alive.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Inside Palin's Reality Show
Tortured in his native Kenya as a child after leading a boycott against the government's treatment of his fellow tea farmers in the 1990s, Kenney found refuge in the United States, earning a basketball scholarship without ever having put up a single jump shot. He worked his way through Catholic University's Columbus School of Law, got married, and had two precocious, fearless children with a successful attorney he met at a law-school party in Washington, D.C. He penned an award-winning...
- 11/11/2010
- by Winston Ross
- The Daily Beast
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