Posted on 04/02/2011 5:41:37 PM PDT by STE=Q
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.
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And look what Kenya has become since those colonials have left. It has deteriorated to below third world status. Look at Zimbabwe. One the breadbasket of africa, now a basket case. Yep, those colonials sure were evil. /sarc
Just have a minor problem with the author’s depiction of imperialism in Africa. The era of European colonialism was Africa’s period of greatest prosperity, growth, improvement in infrastructure, and stability. It wasn’t exactly a redistribution of wealth thing.
Thank you for posting this.
The anti-colonialists believed (and Obummer still does) in a zero-sum game and that results in a Zimbabwe.
In comparison, look at Asian former colonies like India, parts of China, Singapore, etc. They believe in growth and free markets.
The differences in prosperity are startling.
Only the MSMand other liberals obsess about BHO’s colorr. For everyone else his color is light brown biracial
Only the MSMand other liberals obsess about BHO’s colorr. For everyone else his color is light brown biracial
The only ones obsessing over the color of Obama’s skin were the ones doing all the denying. Let’s get that straight first.
And that's the facts.
He just might, have been born in America,
but he didn't grow up here.
He didn't go to 4th of July Parades year after year. The 4th of July always made my Heart swell with pride to be an American.
He didn't struggle through the tough times with us and didn't celebrate our triumphs.
He was and always has been and come to think of it, still is to this day surrounded by people who only see Americas' faults.
It could have just been put in storage. Oh, yeah...what a hater!
Watch what people do as much as what they say. (Something like that.)
Really a pity that the people got such a raw deal when the colonials left.
That is because you and I know that wealth is not the pie, it is the bakery. Leftists don’t get that.
Obama’s “otherness”, whatever it may be, non-Americanism or Islamic roots, is becoming more and more apparent to the general population. They don’t feel comfortable with him. They don’t like his “values” or the way he forces them on us.
I believe the democrats, with Obama’s enablers leading the scam, set up the scenario whereby McCain’s election could have been called to question because of McCain’s birth in Panama, not in the USA controlled canal zone. The opposite of the coin would have been in play but events showed such was not necessary and McCain was in no position to call up a wrong pot of crap. I also believe the setup was planned years earlier when the idea of a new world order was leaked. Buddy-buddy politics since have verified this was going on. Perhaps Trump by some will-of-the-wisp has broken into the cabal.
I believe the democrats, with Obama’s enablers leading the scam, set up the scenario whereby McCain’s election could have been called to question because of McCain’s birth in Panama, not in the USA controlled canal zone. The opposite of the coin would have been in play but events showed such was not necessary and McCain was in no position to call up a wrong pot of crap. I also believe the setup was planned years earlier when the idea of a new world order was leaked. Buddy-buddy politics since have verified this was going on. Perhaps Trump by some will-of-the-wisp has broken into the cabal.
America was a colony.
Absolutely. The author implies that Britain came into a peaceful and wealthy area of Africa, which they later made into Nigeria, stole all their “stuff” and created ethnic conflict.
In actual fact, of course, the area was incredibly poor and racked by warfare long before Europeans showed up. There just wasn’t much of anything to steal. Colonialism was at best a break-even proposition for the imperial power. Most lost a great deal of money. Imperialism was not engaged in for profit and loss reasons.
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