[Fred Nerks]

THe freeper to whom I addressed my reply was under the impression that the title of the article posted on FR, to which I directed him with a link, namely, 'Obama the African Colonial' was some sort of affirmation that he was of African heritage, when in fact, all that title meant was, to describe an ATTITUDE.

And yes, I'm very aware there were earlier colonists into Africa. However, the author of that article wasn't comparing his attitude to arabs - the comparison being made was to the european colonialists.

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.

[WhiskeyX]

“They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.”

Yes, and foremost among those foreign ideas is Islam, which some Luo adopted along with the slave trade and intermarriage with African-Asian Muslims engaged in the slave trade as an Arabized “African Colonial”; which was my angle on what you folks were discussing.

Obama’s paternal grandfather exchanged the later British Christian colonialism for the earlier Arab Muslim colonialism.