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Obama, the African Colonial
American Thinker ^ | June 25, 2009 | L.E. Ikenga

Posted on 06/24/2009 10:54:57 PM PDT by neverdem

Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa.

Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism. I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign "isms", instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.

The tropes of America's racial history as a way of understanding all things black are useless in understanding the man who got his dreams from his father, a Kenyan exemplar of the African Colonial.

Before I continue, I need to say this: I am a first generation born West African-American woman whose parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970's from the country now called Nigeria. I travel to Nigeria frequently. I see myself as both a proud American and as a proud Igbo (the tribe that we come from -- also sometimes spelled Ibo). Politically, I have always been conservative (though it took this past election for me to commit to this once and for all!); my conservative values come from my Igbo heritage and my place of birth. Of course, none of this qualifies me to say what I am about to -- but at the same time it does.

My friends, despite what CNN and the rest are telling you, Barack Obama is nothing more than an old school African Colonial who is on his way to turning this country into one of the developing nations that you learn about on the National Geographic Channel. Many conservative (East, West, South, North) African-Americans like myself -- those of us who know our history -- have seen this movie before. Here are two main reasons why many Americans allowed Obama to slip through the cracks despite all of his glaring inconsistencies:

First, Obama has been living on American soil for most of his adult life. Therefore, he has been able to masquerade as one who understands and believes in American democratic ideals. But he does not. Barack Obama is intrinsically undemocratic and as his presidency plays out, this will become more obvious. Second, and most importantly, too many Americans know very little about Africa. The one-size-fits-all understanding that many Americans (both black and white) continue to have of Africa might end up bringing dire consequences for this country.

Contrary to the way it continues to be portrayed in mainstream Western culture, Africa is not a continent that can be solely defined by AIDS, ethnic rivalries, poverty and safaris. Africa, like any other continent, has an immense history defined by much diversity and complexity. Africa's long-standing relationship with Europe speaks especially to some of these complexities -- particularly the relationship that has existed between the two continents over the past two centuries. Europe's complete colonization of Africa during the nineteenth century, also known as the Scramble for Africa, produced many unfortunate consequences, the African colonial being one of them.

The African colonial (AC) is a person who by means of their birth or lineage has a direct connection with Africa. However, unlike Africans like me, their worldviews have been largely shaped not by the indigenous beliefs of a specific African tribe but by the ideals of the European imperialism that overwhelmed and dominated Africa during the colonial period. AC's have no real regard for their specific African traditions or histories.  AC's use aspects of their African culture as one would use pieces of costume jewelry: things of little or no value that can be thoughtlessly discarded when they become a negative distraction, or used on a whim to decorate oneself in order to seem exotic. (Hint: Obama's Muslim heritage).

On the other hand, AC's strive to be the best at the culture that they inherited from Europe. Throughout the West, they are tops in their professions as lawyers, doctors, engineers, Ivy League professors and business moguls; this is all well and good. It's when they decide to engage us as politicians that things become messy and convoluted.

The African colonial politician (ACP) feigns repulsion towards the hegemonic paradigms of Western civilization. But at the same time, he is completely enamored of the trappings of its aristocracy or elite culture. The ACP blames and caricatures whitey to no end for all that has gone wrong in the world. He convinces the masses that various forms of African socialism are the best way for redressing the problems that European colonialism motivated in Africa. However, as opposed to really being a hard-core African Leftist who actually believes in something, the ACP uses socialist themes as a way to disguise his true ambitions: a complete power grab whereby the "will of the people" becomes completely irrelevant.

Barack Obama is all of the above. The only difference is that he is here playing (colonial) African politics as usual.  

In his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father -- an eloquent piece of political propaganda -- Obama styles himself as a misunderstood intellectual who is deeply affected by the sufferings of black people, especially in America and Africa. In the book, Obama clearly sees himself as an African, not as a black American. And to prove this, he goes on a quest to understand his Kenyan roots. He is extremely thoughtful of his deceased father's legacy; this provides the main clue for understanding Barack Obama.

Barack Obama Sr. was an African colonial to the core; in his case, the apple did not fall far from the tree. All of the telltale signs of Obama's African colonialist attitudes are on full display in the book -- from his feigned antipathy towards Europeans to his view of African tribal associations as distracting elements that get in the way of "progress".  (On p. 308 of Dreams From My Father, Obama says that African tribes should be viewed as an "ancient loyalties".)

Like imperialists of Old World Europe, the ACP sees their constituents not as free thinking individuals who best know how to go about achieving and creating their own means for success. Instead, the ACP sees his constituents as a flock of ignorant sheep that need to be led -- oftentimes to their own slaughter.

Like the European imperialist who spawned him, the ACP is a destroyer of all forms of democracy.

Here are a few examples of what the British did in order to create (in 1914) what is now called Nigeria and what Obama is doing to you

  1. Convince the people that "clinging" to any aspect of their cultural (tribal) identity or history is bad and regresses the process of "unity". British Imperialists deeply feared people who were loyal to anything other than the state. "Tribalism" made the imperialists have to work harder to get people to just fall in line. Imperialists pitted tribes against each other in order to create chaos that they then blamed on ethnic rivalry. Today many "educated" Nigerians, having believed that their traditions were irrelevant, remain completely ignorant of their ancestry and the history of their own tribes.
  2. Confiscate the wealth and resources of the area that you govern by any means necessary in order to redistribute wealth. The British used this tactic to present themselves as empathetic and benevolent leaders who wanted everyone to have a "fair shake". Imperialists are not interested in equality for all. They are interested in controlling all.  
  3. Convince the masses that your upper-crust university education naturally puts you on an intellectual plane from which to understand everything even when you understand nothing. Imperialists were able to convince the people that their elite university educations allowed them to understand what Africa needed. Many of today's Nigerians-having followed that lead-hold all sorts of degrees and certificates-but what good are they if you can't find a job?   
  4. Lie to the people and tell them that progress is being made even though things are clearly becoming worse.  One thing that the British forgot to mention to their Nigerian constituents was that one day, the resources that were being used to engineer "progress" (which the British had confiscated from the Africans to begin with!) would eventually run out. After WWII, Western Europe could no longer afford to hold on to their African colonies. So all of the counterfeit countries that the Europeans created were then left high-and-dry to fend for themselves. This was the main reason behind the African independence movements of the1950 and 60's. What will a post-Obama America look like?
  5. Use every available media outlet to perpetuate the belief that you and your followers are the enlightened ones-and that those who refuse to support you are just barbaric, uncivilized, ignorant curmudgeons.  This speaks for itself.

America, don't be fooled. The Igbos were once made up of a confederacy of clans that ascribed to various forms of democratic government. They took their eyes off the ball and before they knew it, the British were upon them. Also, understand this: the African colonial who is given too much political power can only become one thing: a despot.

L.E. Ikenga can be reached at leikenga@gmail.com.


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To: thouworm
...and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Malcolm X meets with SHUKAIRY, PLO FOUNDER-LEADER.

source link

EXCERPT:

After Al-Shukairy returned from the United Nations in 1962, he was chosen by the heads of the Arab states to represent Palestine in the Arab League, following the death of the previous representative, Ahmed Hilmi Abdul Baki. The decision was made in the 1st Arab Summit held in January 1964 to entrust Al-Shukairy, as the Palestinian representative, to start contacts for establishing the Palestinian Entity. Al-Shukairy accomplished his mission with excellent results. He toured the Arab countries, where Palestinians had taken residence, and presented to them his proposals for the National Charter as well as the by-laws of establishing the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). The preparatory committees were chosen, and these in turn nominated their representatives to the Palestinian Conference, which was held in Jerusalem between May 28 - June 2, 1964. The Conference was entitled The First Palestinian National Council for the Liberation Organization. The Conference elected Ahmed Al-Shukairy as its president and announced the establishment of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

821 posted on 04/05/2011 3:26:14 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: LucyT

FOR THE RECORD

Question: Was ALICE PALMER the source of the ‘THE FIRST TIME I HEARD OF BARACK’ story as told by TOM FIFE?

http://trevorloudon.com/2009/11/obama-file-90-alice-palmer-re-examined-was-obamas-first-political-boss-a-soviet-agent-of-influence/

FROM TREVOR LOUDON:

Alice Palmer Re-examined-Was Obama’s First Political Boss a Soviet “Agent of Influence”?

EXCERPTS:

In 1985 Alice Palmer was part of a delegation of 16 Afro-American journalists to the Soviet Union, East Germany and Czechoslovakia...

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Alice Palmer, as editor of the Black Press Review, was elected International Organization of Journalists vice president for North America, at the organization’s 10th Congress, October 20-23 1986, in Prague Czechoslovakia. Palmer’s IOJ duties were to include co-ordinating the activities of chapters in the US, Canada,
Mexico and the Caribbean.

The International Organization of Journalists was a well documented Soviet front operation, based in Prague, until its expulsion by the new anti-communist Czech government in 1995.

Like other Soviet fronts of the era , IOJ was staffed mainly by East Bloc personnel and was directed by the International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union-which in turn was directly answerable to the Soviet Politburo.

The International Department, often with the assistance of the KGB, used fronts such as IOJ and World Peace Council, for “active measures”-programs to covertly influence the policies of other nations, to better advance Soviet interests. These might range from spreading propaganda and disinformation to embarassing publicity stunts or hoaxes to destroying the career of an enemy of the Soviet Union , or advancing the career of a friend.

~snip

As late as 1994, when Palmer was known to be working with Barack Obama, she was also working closely with members of the Communist Party splinter, Committees of Correspondence.

It is now clear that Barack Obama has worked for years with Marxists with backgrounds in the Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America and Committees of Correspondence.

That these groups have promoted Obama’s career, both in Chicago and nationally, is undeniable.

However the Alice Palmer case illustrates something even more concerning.

That is, a key Obama ally had, only a few years before meeting the future President, strong relationships with senior East Bloc officials.

Alice Palmer played an active role in promoting Soviet Bloc policy at the height of the Reagan era-when the Soviets and their proxies were threatening US interests in every corner of the globe.

A few years later Alice Palmer was actively promoting the career of a young activist lawyer. That man is now willing and able to negotiate arms control treaties with Alice Palmer’s old friends in Moscow...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344042/posts

The First Time I Heard of Barack (with additional info)
Free Republic ^ | Sept 19, 2009 | Tom Fife

Posted on Sunday, September 20, 2009 6:17:34 PM by BP2


822 posted on 04/09/2011 6:59:51 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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823 posted on 04/09/2011 7:04:00 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Fred Nerks

BTTT for important reading.


824 posted on 04/17/2011 6:28:00 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: neverdem

BookMark


825 posted on 04/25/2011 11:38:51 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: thouworm
the internment of Japanese-Americans during the war

Obama doesn't even know Hawaiian history. The Japanese-descended Americans of Hawaii were NOT interned during WW2.
826 posted on 04/29/2011 9:58:31 AM PDT by Nepeta
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To: thouworm
African American Students Foundation greets students from Kenya.SOURCE

New York, New York, United States September 9. 1959

Cora Weiss (second from left), Executive Director of the African American Students Foundation, at Idlewild Airport welcoming the 81 students from Kenya on the first Airlift. Prior to the airlift, Kenyan labor leader Tom Mboya had toured the United States and persuaded many universities and colleges to provide scholarships for students from East Africa, mostly Kenya. The African American Students Foundation was founded to raise money to get the students to the United States to use these scholarships. The Foundation organized several airlifts. On the right with his back to the camera is William X. Scheinman who set up the African American Students Foundation. Scheinman was also a contributor.

Malcolm X meeting with students from East Africa at a welcoming program for students bought to the United States to study by the African American Students Foundation. Photo courtesy of Cora Weiss

Collection: Private collection of Cora and Peter Weiss

SOURCE

Title: African American Students Foundation (Cora Weiss collection)

Description: The African American Students Foundation (AASF) was founded in 1959. In April 1959, prior to Kenyan independence, trade unionist Tom Mboya visited the U.S. at the invitation of the American Committee on Africa; Mboya talked on many college campuses and was given scholarships from many colleges. The AASF was set up to raise money and bring students from East Africa to the U.S. to use these scholarships. Although based in New York, AASF had a national focus. Baseball star Jackie Robinson and performers Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier led the initial fundraising. AASF raised an initial $39,000 and as a result organized the first of several "airlifts" of East African students, mostly from Kenya, to the U.S. in September 1959. In 1960 the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation gave $100,000 to AASF. As a result in 1960 three planes were chartered bringing 222 students from east and central Africa. The archive includes photographs. Cora Weiss was Executive Director and student adviser. Archive deposited by Cora Weiss.

JOURNAL OF AMERCIAN HISTORY

[25] Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and Jackie Robinson appeal letter, Aug. 24, 1959, box 3, Robinson Papers; Smith, “East African Airlifts of 1959, 1960, and 1961,” 25–43. Barack Obama wrote that his father “had been selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States,” but a list of the students who landed in New York on September 9, 1959, does not contain the name of the elder Obama...

SPONSOR: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE.

827 posted on 04/29/2011 7:37:14 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks
Harry Belafonte, pupil of W.E.B. DuBois, friend of Mao and Stalin, mentor to Frank Marshall Davis.

I've seen DuBois' name in connection with the African American Institute. BHO Sr. lists the African American Institute as one of his benefactors during his college days. What do you know about the connections between these people and the African American Institute? Thanks in advance.

828 posted on 05/01/2011 10:32:14 AM PDT by matt1234 (Dreams from My Father II: Alien Sex Files)
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To: matt1234

Their 1976 Newsletter might be of interest:

http://www.aaionline.org/files/1976_AAI_Annual_Report.pdf

PERCY SUTTON AND BETTY SHABAZZ


In the book THE ROCKEFFELLERS co-authored by David Horowitz (who had access to the records)there is a footnote, (from memory) which indicates that the AFRICAN-AMERICAN INSTITUTE with funds from THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE, from the early fifties, brought thousands of foreign students to the US - many from Africa -


829 posted on 05/01/2011 2:38:04 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: matt1234

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIVO8MZYXo8

PERCY SUTTON - COVER STORY


830 posted on 05/01/2011 2:56:34 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: piasa

I recall vividly that at the time Life magazine obligingly featured Nkrumah in an article in which it referred to him as “the George Washington of Africa.” So the idiocy began. Once again we say, D’Souza nailed it; this piece is a more concise version of his book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.” This lady is certainly right on with a thought we have often expressed: the worst thing taken from Europe by so many colonized people was Marxism.


831 posted on 05/01/2011 6:30:29 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: AmericanVictory; thouworm

Published on May 1, 1990

The End of African Socialism?

By George B.N. Ayittey

In most places in Africa, telephones don’t work; they bite back. What are called “roads” are cartways truncated with crevasses large enough to swallow a truck. Vehicles move in a crab-like fashion: pointing sideways but moving perfe c tly straight. These, in shor4 are a few of the manifestations of the deepening crisis gripping Africa.

Once a region with bountiful stores of optimism and hope, the African continent now teeters perilously on the brink of economic disintegration, politica l chaos, and institutional and social decay. The decline in income per capita has been calamitous for many African countries. Agricultural growth has been dismal, with output growing at less than 1.5 percent since 1970. Industrial output across Africa has a lso been declining, with some regions experienc- ing de-industrialization. Export volumes for many African countries have faltered, leading to a fall in Africa’s share of world markets by almost hal To maintain income and investment, African governments borrowed heavily in the 1970s. Total African foreign debt has risen nineteen-fold since 1970 to a staggering $230 billion, equal to its Gross National Product (GNP), making the region the most heavily indebted of all (Latin America’s debt amounts to around 6 0 percent of GNP). Debt service obligations absorbed 47 percent of export revenue in 1988, but only half were actually paid. The arrears are constantly being rescheduled. With scarce foreign exchange increasingly being devoted to service debt obligations, less became available for imports of spare parts, drugs, textbooks, and other essential supplies. Infrastructure began to crumble for lack of maintenance. Roads started to deteriorate and telephones refused to work. Even hospitals in many African countries had no running water.

At the Akomfo Anokye Hospital in Ghana, patients were asked to bring their own bandages, blankets, and food. “Harvard” in Ruins. Educational facilities soon began to disintegrate. Makerere Univer- sity in Uganda, once called “The Ha r vard of Africa,” is now in total ruins. The University of Ghana at Legon, once a world-class institution, has not seen a single coat of fresh paint since the colonialists left in the fifties. In sub-Saharan Africa (or black Africa), the economic deteriora t ion has been so severe that this region now has the dubious distinction of being home to 24 of the world’s 36 poorest nations. Economic performance of this region, measured crudely by the rate of growth of income per capita, has been pathetic, as the foll owing table indicates:

G eorge B.N Ayittey, a native of Ghana, is a Bradley Resident Scholar at the Heritage Foundation. He spoke at The Heritage Foundation on January 24, 1990. ISSN 0272-1155. 01990 by The Heritage Foundation.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Lecture/The-End-of-African-Socialism


832 posted on 05/04/2011 10:54:03 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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CROSS POSTED FOR THE RECORD:

Much of what follows revolves around the fact that Malcom X took the manifesto of the Black Panther Party (that became the Black Liberation Army) and the plight of the repressed African American male in need of vast reparations abroad. Malcolm X accomplished this by completing THREE extensive (multiple months long) tours of the more powerful African nations during which he met with the nations’ PRESIDENTS and other power elites.

Malcom X met with Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta on a trip he took to AFRICA in 1964 on which he visited Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. These three AFRICAN countries happen to be nations in which the AFRICAN OBAMA/ODINGA Luo tribe has its greatest representation

Malcom X’s visit to Kenya in 1964 occurred when Obama’s Uncle (on his mother’s side) Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga was Vice President of Kenya (1964-1966) and Obama’s father Barack Hussein Obama Sr. was a top economist for Kenya’s Finance Ministry (1965-1966).

The President of Kenya at the time was Jomo Kenyatta who today is attributed with running the most corrupt administration in Kenyan history. Kenyatta and Odinga took orders from and their administration was directly financed by the Soviet Communist government. Odinga and Obama Sr. were Cummunist Kenyan government officials when Malcolm X shared his message wth the leaders of Africa.

The story is better fleshed out in the posting cited below:

“Obama, the Black Panther Party (BPP), Black Liberation Army (BLA), Weather Underground (WU), global Muslim Brotherhood (MB) network, Al Qaeda, and Kenyan and American Politics are All Interconnected”

http://obamashiddenagenda.blogtownhall.com/2010/02/18/obama,_the_black_panther_party_bpp,_black_liberation_army_bla,_weather_underground_wu,_global_muslim_brotherhood_mb_network,_al_qaeda,_and_kenyan_and_american_politics_are_all_interconnected.thtml

Detail on Malcolm X’s Travels to Africa:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X#Early_years

Malcolm X visited Africa on three separate occasions, once in 1959 and twice in 1964. During his visits, he met officials, gave interviews to newspapers, and spoke on television and radio in Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Sudan, Senegal, Liberia, Algeria, and Morocco. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, and Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria invited Malcolm X to serve in their governments.

In 1959, Malcolm X traveled to Egypt (then known as the United Arab Republic), Sudan, Nigeria, and Ghana to arrange a tour for Elijah Muhammad.The first of the two trips Malcolm X made to Africa in 1964 lasted from April 13 until May 21, before and after his Hajj. On May 8, following his speech at the University of Ibadan, Malcolm X was made an honorary member of the Nigerian Muslim Students’ Association. During this reception the students bestowed upon him the name “Omowale”, which means “the son who has come home” in the Yoruba language.Malcolm X wrote in his autobiography that he “had never received a more treasured honor.”

On July 9, 1964, Malcolm X returned to Africa. On July 17, he was welcomed to the second meeting of the Organization of African Unity in Cairo, Egypt (OAU Summit 17–21 July 1964) as a representative of the Organization of Afro-American Unity. By the time he returned to the United States on November 24, 1964, Malcolm had met with every prominent African leader and established an international connection between Africans on the continent and those in the diaspora.

In the 45 years that have passed since Malcom X’s assasination (Feb. 21, 1965), the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, the nation of Islam, and the Black Muslim Brotherhood have continued to spread Malcolm X’s message abroad.

4 posted on Saturday, February 20, 2010 6:05:00 PM by BIOCHEMKY

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2455476/posts?page=4#4


833 posted on 05/07/2011 5:57:29 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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Malcolm X, Sukarno’s
Indonesia, and the
Politics of Bandung
F riday, February 25, 2011
12:00 NOON

Campus Life Building, Room 110
Sukarno, Indonesia’s first president, and Malcolm X shared the platform at Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1956,
introduced there by mutual friend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
The relationship launched there endured until Malcolm X’s
untimely death in 1965, two weeks before he was slated to speak at the Asian-African Islamic Conference in Jakarta. He had also planned to attend the tenth anniversary celebration of the 1955 Bandung Conference, the first large-scale Asian-African conference. Iandola explores
this little-known relationship to illuminate their ideological affinities as well as the Cold War politics of the Third World.

Laura Iandola
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Graduate Assistant, Center for Southeast Asian Studies

http://www.niu.edu/CSEAS/lecture/Spring2011LectureSeries/Iandola.pdf


834 posted on 05/12/2011 9:35:13 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
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1.Suharto’s body was taken from Jakarta to the Giri Bangun mausoleum complex near the Central Java city of Solo. He was buried alongside his late wife in a state military funeral with full honours, with the Kopassus elite forces and KOSTRAD commandos as the honour guard and pallbearers and Commander of Group II Kopassus Surakarta Lt.Colonel Asep Subarkah.

2.Soebarkah is how Subarkah used to be spelled in 1961. Bahasa Indonesia used “oe” at that time, but changed the spelling to eliminate Dutch influence. Which explains why people were born Soekaro and Soeharto but died as Sukarno or Suharto. Djakarta too changed into Jakarta (that is also reflected in these documents). Yes, Subarkah is a common Indonesian surname - one of the important military officers carrying Mr Suharto’s coffin was a Subarkah.

835 posted on 05/12/2011 10:41:52 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
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To: Fred Nerks

Placemark.


836 posted on 05/13/2011 11:19:32 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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838 posted on 05/16/2011 12:32:20 AM PDT by Fred Nerks
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To: Fred Nerks

Placemarker


839 posted on 05/22/2011 1:09:08 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: STARWISE; thouworm; little jeremiah

ONE TWO THREE! ALTOGETHER NOW! PROLETARIAN ISLAM!

Proletarian Islam« The International Pan Islamic Communist Party of Proletarian Islam Statement on The 60th Anniversary of The Start of The Great Fatherland Liberation War in Korea.Malcolm X Revolutionary Black Nationalism the Pan Islamic World Revolution and the Need for a New Islam a Proletarian Islam.

The Following essay was written by Rasheed Muhammad the Supreme Guide of Proletarian Islam in the year 1994 in the aftermath of the great Black Proletarian La Rebellion in Los Angles CA and the revived interest in the life and work of Malcolm X at that time in history and the release of the Spike Lee biopic of his life. and the overall great upsurge in Revolutionary consciousness of the Black Nation in North America know as the Afrocentric era of the late 1980s and early 199os which led to a surge in reversions to Islam within The Black Nation in North America. this essay was one of the original founding documents of the ideology of Proletarian Islam which was founded and then developed by Supreme Guide Rasheed Muhammad in the early 1990s and which he continues to develop to this very day and hour.

Malcolm X Revolutionary Black Nationalism the World Pan Islamic Revolution and the need for a New Islam a Proletarian Islam

By Rasheed Muhammad

Malcolm X is the Greatest Black hero of our time he is the major role model for all revolutionary minded black youth and the National Hero of the Black Nation in North America since the release nearly two years ago of the Spike Lee biopic of his life there has been an massive upsurge of interest in his life and work among black youth and others he is now more popular than Dr Martin Luther king Jr among black nationalist minded youth one thing that was missing in the movie was Malcolm’s interest in Socialism and his attempt to find a synstissis of Islam socialism and Pan Third World Nationalism Malcolm x starting from his years on the streets of Boston and Harlem had an interest in Socialism as he was very intrigued by the progress of the Socialist Soviet Union under the great Asiatic leader Joseph Stalin and he was also a great admirer of the great Vladmir Lenin the great Asiatic founder of the Soviet State who was of Mongol decent later on after the victory of the Chinese and Korean Revolutions in Asia. Malcolm X became extremely fascinated by the Revolutionary Communist thought of Chairman Mao Zedong of China and the Juche idea of Kim ll Sung of North Korea. In his early speeches as a Minster in the Nation of Islam he would refer to these great figures and their revolutions and ideologies quit often and he held up their ideas and works as an example for the Black Nation to follow here in North America. Malcolm x also had a great and profound interest in the Islamic Socialist thought of Gamal Abdul Nasser. who was the Saddam Hussein of his day. Malcolm x also held in high regard the other great Islamic Socialists of his day such as Ben Bella the president of Socialist Algeria. And Sukarno the first president of Indonesia. The goal of Malcolm X after 1963 was to try to find a way to synthesize the revolutionary Communist thought of Lenin Stalin Mao Zedong Kim IL Sung Ho Chi Minh and Kwame Nkrumah with the Islamic Socialist Thought of Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Gamal Abdel Nasser Ben Bella Sukarno and other Islamic Socialist thinkers. with the revolutionary Black Nationalism and Pan Third World Nationalism of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Gravey and W E B Dubois and his wife Shirley Graham Dubois. So today in 1994. We must create and have a new form of Islam that synthesizes Islam Black and Pan Third World nationalism with scientific socialism. Scientific Socialism is a Socialism built and centered on the Proletarian Working class. the ideology and the teachings of Marcus Gravey W E B Dubois Vladimir Lenin Joseph Stalin Mao Zedong Kim IL Sung Ho Chi Minh Kwame Nkrumah Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. must be synthesized with the teachings of the Holy Quran and the Prophet Muhammad along with the Islamic socialist thoughts of Gamal Abdul Nasser Ben Bella Sukarno Michel Aflaq and his leading Student President Saddam Hussein the current leader of Iraq. as well as the Islamic Socialist thought of Malcolm X himself who had devoted his life to finding and developing a Synthesis of Islam Pan Third World Nationalism and Socialism. the Black youth of today must now stand up and continue the synthesis that Malcolm was formulating. this synthesis will be known as Proletarian Islam. And from the teachings of Vladimir Lenin Joseph Stalin Mao Zedong and Kim II Sung Ho Chi Minh and Kwame Nkrumah. Proletarian Islam will take The concept of the dictatorship of the Proletarian Working Class. Which is a socialism which is centered on the Proletarian Working Class hence the name Proletarian Islam. And also from the teaching of Mao Zedong who added on to Marxism-Leninism with Mao Zedong thought which is today known as Maoism. Proletarian Islam will take Mao Zedong s concept of Peoples war and New Democracy. Chairman Mao s line on Socialist construction and the concept of Proletarian Culture Revolutions which is the concept that the class struggle of the Proletarian Working Class continues under the dictatorship of the Proletariat thought successive Culture Revolutions. in order overthrow the bourgeoisie class that will arise within the victorious Revolutionary Communist Party after the victory and coming to power of the Proletarian working class in a country. and from the great Leaders Marcus Gravey W E B Dubois Gamal Abdul Nasser and Kwame Nkrumah Proletarian Islam will take Pan Third World Nationalism . and then form the Islamic Socialist thought of the Holy Quran and the Prophet Muhammad and his revolutionary family and companions as well as the modern days Islamic Socialists thinkers such as Gamal Abdul Nasser Ben Bella Michel Aflaq and his leading disciple President Saddam Hussein of Iraq as well as Hafez Al-Assad the current president of Syria and Muammar Al-Qaddafi of Libya who are all three of the greatest living Revolutionaries and Islamic Socialists of our time Proletarian Islam will take its spirituality. as was seen two years by the great Los Angeles Proletarian Black Nationalist Rebellion in California which was an Black Working Class Revolt. We are living in a great new period of Revolutionary struggle within The Black Nation here in North America. And Proletarian Islam will play a major role in the struggles ahead for the Black Nation for the rest of the 1990s and onward into the fast approaching new millenium. As the Black Nation moves forward towards National Liberation. We must forever be thankful to Malcolm X for paving the way for the new Islam Proletarian Islam. That we are now building and which will ultimately liberate the Black Nation and the Islamic ummah and the overall third world in general. the religion of Islam is now the fastest growing religion in the world and this is very much so in North America within the Black Nation Islam was the religion of our African ancestors who built such glorious Black Islamic civilizations such as the Moorish empire of north Africa and Spain as well as the west African Islamic states of Ghana Mali and Songhai Kanem Bornu among many other great Black Islamic Empires and kingdoms in Africa. the black youth are now embracing the great Islamic heritage of our African ancestors. as is show by the widespread and rapid spread of Islam within the many Black inner city communities across north America and now we are seeing the spread of Islam within rural Black communities within the United State as well the Black Nation has no permanent future under the rule of the White United States government we must now separate and form our own independent Black Nation right here in North America. the only way that we can win and gain our independent Black State is though the means of a Chinese style Maoist People War like the one that Chairman Mao Zedong led to victory in China over some 40 years ago. Black youth have shown by the LA Rebellion that they are ready willing and able to wage violent armed struggle against the United State Government. And we are defiantly going to have to see a lot more of what happen in Los Angeles during the Great Black Proletarian LA Rebellion. before we are a free and independent Black People and Nation. Malcolm X is the great spiritual father and forerunner of Proletarian Islam. and he firmly belevied in the need for armed struggle and the national liberation and independence of the Black Nation here in North America from the United States of America. he also believed in and advocated these principles for the Islamic Ummah and the non White world as a whole. We the Proletarian Muslims must forever, be thankful to him for paving the way for Proletarian Islam. The Ideology of the International Pan Islamic Working class to emerge on the Scene as the Vanguard ideology that will liberate the Black Nation and the Pan Islamic Nation as a whole.every single Black Man woman and child must now return to Islam the religion and culture of our African ancestors and become Muslim, in today’s world there are two great revolutions that are shaking the earth one is the international Third World Proletarian revolution for National Liberation and Socialism and the other is the Pan Islamic Revolution that is devoted to the restoration and reunification of the Islamic Homeland that extends from West Africa to Indonesia into one giant unified Islamic Nation State the Black Nation is an inseparable part of both of these two worlds and theirs Revolutions. And being that we live in the belly of the beast the Black Nation must assume a vanguard role in the world revolution by overthrowing the White US empire from within. We must do this by fighting to create our own independent separate Proletarian Islamic Black Nation here in North America. That will be under the leadership of the Black Islamic Working Class. And that will have its own Black Islamic army navy and air force that will be able to defend our Independence. And help aid the Pan Islamic and the Pan Third World Socialist revolution in other parts of the world. Such as in the Islamic world and the broader non-white third world. The Black Nation in North America under the leadership of the Black Islamic Working Class has a most important role to play in the worldwide Pan Islamic and Third World revolution now going on in the world. The Black Islamic Working class must now assume the leadership of the Black Nation and its Revolution for National Liberation and Independence. There are several reasons why the Black Islamic Working Class must lead and take charge of the struggle one is because Islam is the original culture of the Black Nation which was striped from our African ancestors during slavery and Political Islam today is the leading Anti-Imperialist force in the world. and since the fall of the Soviet Union and its bloc Political Islam or what the Western Imperialists call fundamentalist Islam is now the leading Revolution force in the world today the very act of converting to Islam anywhere in the world is a revolutionary act. Especially in oppressed Nations and among oppressed Peoples like the Black Nation and People here in North American. This fact is especially so within our Black Nation since Islam was the Original Religion of our African Ancestors. Another Reason why the Black Islamic Working Class must lead the Black Revolution is because the Black Islamic Working Class is the most militant sector of the Black Working Class. as pointed out Islam is growing at a fast rate within the Black Nation and it is growing faster among the Black underclass the Lumpen -Proletariat which was the sector of the Black Working Class that sparked the La Rebellion and which also played a major role in the urban Black Rebellions of the 1960s. And too this day it is the most militant and revolutionary sector of the Black Working Class within our Black Nation. as the Black Lumpen- Proletariat has also been and is the most enthusiastic sector of the Black Working class in the act of the reembracing of the Islamic heritage of our Black Nation the Black-Lumpen-Proletariat is rapidly converting to the Islamic Religion of our African Ancestors and soon the entire Black Lumpen- Proletariat will be Muslim. as indeed today it is the rebellious Black street youth and prison inmates that are embracing Islam at a very fast rate. the Black Lumpen-Proletariat has always since it first emerged on the sence been the most militant sector of the Black Working Class in standing up to and rebelling against the White Zionist power structure here in North America. as Malcolm X himself came from the ranks of the Black Lumpen-Proletariat. another reason why the Black Lumpen-Proletariat must lead the Black Revolution is because of its sheer size the Black Lumpen proletariat is the fastest growing class within our Black Nation every year that goes by sees more and more Black workers and elements of the Black petty Bourgeoisie class fall into the ranks of the Lumpen -Proletariat all of these factors show that the Black- lumpen –Proletariat and the Black Islamic Lumpen –Proletariat in particular will lead the Black Revolution in North America to victory and to Political Independence in a Black Islamic Homeland of our own here in North America. in order to bring this goal about the Black Islamic working class must take up the revolutionary science of Proletarian Islam which is the ideology of the International Pan Islamic Working Class. not only will the ideology of Proletarian Islam liberate the Black Nation here in North America but the ideology of Proletarian Islam will also liberate the Islamic Working Class and the Pan Islamic Nation the World over and Put the Islamic Nation back on top as the leading civilization in the world as it was in the past in the days of Prophet Muhammad [PBUH] his holy household and companions and the early Caliphate.

Proletarian Islam can and will restore glory honor and power back to the Islamic Nation the world over. and create a New Islamic Golden age here on this earth.

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840 posted on 05/23/2011 8:17:41 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
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