Obama, the African Colonial

American Thinker ^ | June 25, 2009 | L.E. Ikenga

[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.

[Fred Nerks]

Q: Is this one Maya Soetoro?

Image #183

A: LoL! Some bright spark tricked up an image of zero and made him look like a woman. Now he resembles his mother:

But then, he always did:

[Fred Nerks]

Q: who’s the loony that posted it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYh3idvGJmo

A: I just sat through a couple of minutes of that rubbish and now I need something very strong to cleanse my brain cells.

A Freeper! ...you just never know who is on the other end...

[Fred Nerks]

[LucyT]

[Fred Nerks]

That looks like a fourteen year old son of Osama bin laden.

[Fred Nerks]

For the record: replacing missing image, from left to right...

1. Joseph, (Yussuf) who left (the school at Maseno) in 1951 for unexplained reasons.

2. Hussein Onyango OBAMA was born about 1895 and died in 1979. Before settling down to work as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi he was a traveler. Recruited to fight for colonial power England in World War I, he visited Europe and India, and afterward lived for a time in Zanzibar, where he converted from Christianity to Islam.

3, Zeituni Onyango was born in 1952 into the Luo tribe in Kenya, daughter of Onyango Obama and his third wife Sarah Onyango Obama. She was a much younger half-sister to Barack Obama, Sr., the son of their father’s second wife.[1][2][3][4] She was born during the British rule of the Protectorate of Kenya.[4]

4. Sarah Hussein Onyango Anyango Ogwel Obama (1922) She was the primary caregiver for Barack Obama Sr. after his mother, Akuma, left the family when her children were still young.

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Also pictured:

Barack Hussein Obama, photographed on what appears to be his return to Kenya in August, 1964. The child with him would be approx. three years of age.

[Fred Nerks]

replacing missing image

Obama calls Raila Odinga, thanks for visiting deceased auntie...

[Brown Deer]

[Fred Nerks]

[Fred Nerks]

GRAPHIC WITH TEXT:

[LucyT]

Begin at #2,229 and read to end of thread.

Thanks to Fred Nerks and Brown Deer.

[LucyT]

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Oh argh!

Begin at # 1229...

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[little jeremiah]

Thank you for pings!

[LucyT]

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ETL,

I recall you have information about ohbummer, and also about Bill Ayers and his cabal.

Would you mind adding your information to this thread, (and the other long thread, I'll ping you to it) thereby having it centrally located for future historians. (If they care to find the truth.)

Thanks in advance.

LucyT

[SaveFerris]

Long-standing relationship with a repeat domestic terrorist?

Well, it was fine, just fine, with low-information voters.

You may know them by another name.....

[ETL]

ETL, I recall you have information about Obama, and also about Bill Ayers and his cabal. Would you mind adding your information to this thread, (and the other long thread, I'll ping you to it) thereby having it centrally located for future historians. (If they care to find the truth.)

Yes, In fact I just redid some things I've had for years on their college days in New York. Both actually, for a time, a year or two, did attend college at the same time (during the 80s). AND, interestingly, within a few blocks of each other! This, despite the fact that Ayers is several years older than Obama. Ayers, at that time, was actually taking some advanced courses in "teacher ed" at a nearby college.

Anyway, he went on years later to teach courses himself (instructing other teachers) in "socialist revolutionary ideology" to pass on to young students throughout the university system, high schools, Jr high schools, and, probably, even grade schools. That is how despicable these bastards are.

REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
[Revolution] Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?

http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
--B.H. Obama

Note the red communist star on his shirt

PS- I'll post the new stuff I found and the re-dos later or in a day or so. Have some more work to do on them first. Also am too tired at the moment.

[Zeneta]

Good work.

This group “Revcom” is always working.

They led the protests for Trayvon Martin and where the instigators during the Ferguson riots.

Their goal had been reduced to provoking a violent response from the police or any group which they can claim to be authoritarian.

They had been reduced to seeking “Victim” status in order to get any traction.

I suspect that they will change their tactics before long.

Their Brothers in Arms, Antifa, seem to be exposing themselves in a way. It’s to soon for the violent suppression of dissenters. A good test none the less.

These Communist need the Media to go full on “Trump is a dictator” and they will hit the streets.

It won’t be long before that happens.

There will be violence and violent protests and an attempt to remove Trump from office.

As soon as AG Barr lays out the criminal prosecutions of 0bama and Clinton sycophants there will be WAR.

Literally, A WAR.

They have no other choice but to claim that Trump is only doing this because he is a Dictator, like Hitler, that is using his position silence his political opponents.

They can’t afford to be honest and allow their leaders to testify.

I suspect that within 6 to 8 months we will see these Commies move from seeking sympathy as victims to seeking support as revolutionaries.

Their courage will be fueled by a media that wants Trump gone.

The Media will Never Ever acquiesce.

Law and order will be turned on it’s head.

The battle lines will be drawn.

[ETL]

This group “Revcom” is always working. They led the protests for Trayvon Martin and where the instigators during the Ferguson riots.

Several years ago I went to check out a pro-illegal immigrant rally here in New York to take some photos. Revcom (The Revolutionary Communist Party, or RCP) was there in full force, as were the other main communist groups.

Also there was the liberal snooze media. ABC's Eyewitness News actually had their van parked right alongside the Revolutionary Communist Party table, about 1 car length away!

Yet, as I had fully expected when I went home afterwards to watch the coverage, there was zero mention of the RCP, or, for that matter, ANY of the communist revolutionary groups that were there handing out crap literature and reaching out trying to talk to passerbys. I, I hope, still have a couple of photos that I took of the ABC Snooze van with RCP signs and banners in their immediate vicinity. I'll try to see if I can find them.

[Zeneta]

No doubt.

It burns me up to no end the failure of virtually any media to call out these communist.

I include Hannity and Fox News.

Fox did a “Town Hall” when Trump was running and sitting front row was a Commie leader from Revcom, T-shirt and all, No call out, no acknowledgement of his agenda.

WTF, is wrong with these people?

Is it so bad to say Communism is Evil, seriously F**ked Up ?

It’s the same with Islam.

Seriously F**ked Up, but everyone is afraid to say so.

[ETL]

That is EXACTLY how I feel about it.

And, you’re absolutely right, even people like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh very rarely get into that (important) kind of detail. Hannity has probably spent hundreds of hours talking about Bill Ayers over the years. Yet NEVER, as far as I know, and I’ve watched and listened to him a lot over that time, referred to Ayers or his Weather Underground terrorist organization as Communist. He would just say that they were “domestic terrorists”. Bad enough, but it misses a major fact about who and what these people were, and what their movement was/is about. And it’s not like the evidence is hard to find. It’s everywhere. The best evidence comes right from their own sources. I have tons of such stuff archived. If they had any brains, they would hire me to do their research. :) (only half joking)