Obama, the African Colonial

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:

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.

Obama - his Kenyan home

561 posted on 04/07/2010 9:18:25 PM PDT by Red Steel

One more for the night. :-) I'm still finding them.

562 posted on 04/07/2010 9:54:16 PM PDT by Red Steel

Zeituni came to the US in approx 2000 as a computer programmer to find work........

Yeah right. This stupid parasite is a computer programmer? A convenient lie. She came here to live off the fat of the land same as most of 3rd worlders....Some work and all have welfare scams if they have children

563 posted on 04/08/2010 8:58:58 AM PDT by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)

Do you think Anne Dunham is wearing a scarf on hair like a good Muslim woman does?

564 posted on 04/08/2010 9:11:12 AM PDT by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)

no...that’s her hair.

565 posted on 04/08/2010 2:30:55 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)

566 posted on 04/15/2010 11:15:49 AM PDT by May31st

see post #373 for related info:

Unlikely Events Recall Story of This President
By Mike Seccombe

We are all the products of a series of accidents, really. Every human is a personification of chaos theory. As a butterfly flaps its wings and sets in train a hurricane, an act of generosity 50 years ago in Kenya gives America a President.

To explain. There were two American teachers, Helen Roberts and Elizabeth Mooney living in Nairobi in the late 1960s, and they had taken a shine to a bright young student. They wanted to foster his brilliance and they paid for him to fly to America to continue his education. That Kenyan man was Barack Obama Sr.

He went to Hawaii to study, and met a young woman. They had a son, who now is the President. But for the goodness of Ms. Roberts and Ms. Mooney, you could argue, the President’s parents would never have met.

But chaos theory involves infinitely complex causation. You could also argue that without the vision of a Kenyan man named Tom Mboya, the President would not exist either. For he arranged for the University of Hawaii to offer the scholarship taken by the senior Mr. Obama. And Mr. Mboya’s activities, in turn, depended on the dedication of a group of activists in America.

Cora Weiss

Cora Weiss, a 53-year summer resident of the Vineyard, was one of those activists. One of the main ones, in fact. And now a book has been written, Airlift to America, chronicling their efforts in bringing hundreds of African students to America to study, between 1959 and 1963.

The book was written by Tom Shachtman, much of it from records which had been stored in Mrs. Weiss’s garage for nearly 50 years. She also did many of the interviews.

“I was the executive director [1959-1963] of something called the African-American Students’ Foundation, set up in 1959 to facilitate the travel and care and feeding of what became nearly 800 students from East Africa,” she recalled on Wednesday, sitting in the kitchen of her Aquinnah home.

The organization began because Mr. Mboya, a Kenyan labor activist, became concerned about how his country would function, once it gained independence from British colonial rule. To the considerable displeasure of the British, he determined the country should look to America to help educate its future leaders.

“Tom was a young man, ambitious, brilliant. It was the height of colonialism there and of the civil rights movement here,” Mrs. Weiss said. “And Tom did a tour of American colleges, setting up scholarships everywhere, including the University of Hawaii.

“Then he [Mboya] said, ‘But we need an organization to run this.’

“So a few of us gathered in New York and I became the executive director, and on the board of directors,” Mrs. Weiss said. With the initial support of two other families in Riverdale, in the Bronx, where Mrs. Weiss and her husband Peter lived, they started it.

“I worked with a man named Frank Montero and a woman raised in a Japanese concentration camp in California named Mary Hamanaka,” she recalled.

“We were very fortunate in that guy named Milton Gordon, who owned Lassie the dog — Lassie was quite a property in those days — and Milton had an office in the Seagram Building in New York and he let us have a room in his office. That’s where we worked from.”

The Weisses were no strangers to activism of this sort. Peter Weiss was on the board of the American Committee on Africa, “a very strong anti-colonial organization.”

“And I had spent my years at the University of Wisconsin at the international club setting up speaking dates for the few foreign students there, so they could have some pin money. I helped the few African students there organize a student union,” said Mrs. Weiss.

She also helped raise funds for Martin Luther King’s civil rights campaign. The Weisses were connected, as evidenced by the fact that Dr. King himself persuaded the Georgia university to take six students.

The cause of helping these African achievers to further their education was always closely connected to the civil rights movement. “This country in those days had hundreds of small white Christian colleges in the South, who would not take a ‘negro.’ But would take a foreign student. So I think these black African students helped open the door a bit.

“The first plane was paid for because Harry Belafonte, Jackie Robinson and Sidney Poitier, together signed a fundraising letter,” Mrs. Weiss said. “In that first group of 1959, 81 students came.”

“Barack Obama missed out on a seat on that first plane. Luckily the two teachers stepped in and raised money for him to come over on a parallel flight,” she said.

“He picked up the scholarship from the University of Hawaii. And while he was there, he needed money for books and tuition and clothes, some of which we sent him.

“So he wasn’t on the airlift, but he was a member of the airlift family.”

VineYard Gazette Online

567 posted on 04/15/2010 6:05:16 PM PDT by thouworm

To explain. There were two American teachers, Helen Roberts and Elizabeth Mooney living in Nairobi in the late 1960s...

I think she meant to say 1950's?

“Barack Obama missed out on a seat on that first plane. Luckily the two teachers stepped in and raised money for him to come over on a parallel flight,” she said.

There it is again...that NEED to show Obama Senior's arrival coincided with the first airlift, when in fact, he had already been in Hawaii months before it landed:

THE OBAMA FILE

"When Senior arrived in Hawaii in June 1959, Kenya's future president, Jomo Kenyatta was in jail in Kenya," as reported by a story done in Hawaiian paper after he arrived:

"The Washington Post reported that when Barack Obama, Sr. first arrived in Hawaii he was interviewed by the Hawaiian Press, the reporter Hirozawa relays Obama’s comments, "he would study business administration and wanted to return to Kenya to help with its transition from tribal customs to a modern economy."

He was concerned, he said, about his generation’s disorientation as Kenyans rejected old ways yet struggled with "westernization," the date of the story was June, 1959.

THE FIRST AFRICAN AIRLIFT ARRIVALS IN SEPTEMBER 1959

The baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who backed efforts to bring African students to the United States, greets the first “African Airlift” arrivals in New York in September 1959. Robinson later urged presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon to support the 1960 airlifts, appealing to Nixon’s interest in courting black voters in the upcoming election. Courtesy Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Jackie Robinson Papers.

568 posted on 04/15/2010 6:42:20 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)

found your link on the Long Thread:

http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/senator-barack-obama-in-kenya-obama-and-odinga-the-true-story/

Senator Barack Obama in Kenya > Obama and Odinga: The True Story
Posted by africanpress on August 10, 2008

By Paula Abeles Friday, August 8, 2008
The mainstream media has justified ignoring this story based on a “conspiracy theory” chain email (politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/465) making the rounds from some African missionaries. Politifact.com examined the email—which claims Obama gave $1MM to Odinga’s campaign—and declared it “a pants on fire”.

However, the underlying (more important issues) are verifiably true. In August and September 2006, Senator Barack Obama traveled to South Africa, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Chad and Kenya as a congressional delegation of one (Codel Obama) (“Codel Obama” The Hill 9/7/2006) While in Kenya, Obama consistently appeared at the side of fellow Luo Raila Odinga (“your agent for change’), who was running for President. (“Senator Rebukes Kenya’s Corruption” Chicago Sun Times 8/29/2006) Because of his African heritage, Obama was treated as a virtual “Head of State” in Kenya While campaigning with Odinga, Obama was openly critical of governmental corruption under President Mibaki –usually a fair, if undiplomatic, criticism from an objective observer.

However, Kibaki’s government has been better than most—and Odinga has his own corruption issues.(
“Loud and Populist, But No Political Outsider” The Guardian 12/29/2007)

Obama’s partisan support for Odinga was considered so transparent, that the Kenyan Government spokesman, Alfred Matua, complained of political posturing to aid Odinga’s election chances: “It is very clear that the senator has been used as a puppet to perpetuate opposition politics,”(“Walking The World Stage” Newsweek 9/11/06) And, “…we earlier thought he was mature in his assessment of Kenyan and African politics,” Mutua told AFP.”We forgive him because it is his first time in the Senate and he is yet to mature into understanding issues of foreign policy,” he said.”(“Obama’s Kenya Honeymoon Ends Abruptly After Graft Rebuke” 8/29/06) Subsequently, Ambassador Ogingo Ogego made a public complaint to the US.(“Kenyan Envoy Kicks Off Diplomatic Row” My Africa 9/27/2006)

Raila Odinga subsequently lost the controversial (probably rigged) presidential election. In what appeared to many—including Human Rights Watch– as a coordinated strategy from the top, (“Violence We Fled was Planned, Say Kenyan Refugees” Reuters 1/26/2008 and “Kenya: Violence Planned Before Poll, Says Report” The Nation 3/18/2008) his Luo supporters (a core of whom call themselves The Taliban”(“Ethnic Gangs Rile Kenyan Slums” Newsweek 1/10/08)) engaged in what US Envoy Jendayi Frazer called “clear ethnic cleansing” (“US Envoy Calls Violence in Kenya ‘Ethnic Cleansing’” USA Today 1/30/2008) of the Kikuyu opposition.

Odinga’s supporters went on a rampage—burning Kikuyu homes and businesses, (“Ethnic Cleansing in Luoland” The Economist 2/7/2008) raping Kikuyu women, and murdering everyone in their path—including at least 50 Christian Kikuyu woman & children who had sought refuge in a church. They burned them alive. (“Mob Burns Kenyans Seeking Refuge In Church” CNN 1/10/2008)

“We have evidence that ODM [Odinga’s party] politicians and local leaders actively fomented some post-election violence,” Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director for the New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW), said on Thursday.” (Violence We Fled was Planned, Say Kenyan Refugees” Ibid)

So: who is Raila Odinga that Senator Obama would expend his political capital and risk the goodwill of half the population of Kenya?
Their relationship is unclear. The BBC initially reported that Obama and Odinga were first cousins.(“Odinga Says Obama is His Cousin” 1/8/2008) The Obama campaign has since denied a familial relationship. Raila Odinga’s father Oginga Odinga was leader of the “Kenya People’s Union” and perceived as a “committed socialist” (“Oginga Odinga: Kenya’s Most Persecuted Politician” Kenya: Key Issues 8/21.2002). Odinga Sr. was also the political ally of fellow Luo; Barack Obama Sr.(The Risks of Knowledge (Ohio University Press, 2004) p. 182)

What we do know about Odinga is not good. A former Minister of Energy, Odinga is reported to have been set up in the oil business by the al Bakri Group and Muammar Quaddafi (“How Rich is Raila-The ODM Kenya Presidential Aspirant?” African Press 4/26/2007) Abdel Qader Bakri (or- Abdulkader al Bakri) was listed on the infamous “Golden Chain”–an internal Al-Queda list of wealthy Saudi financial sponsors seized by Bosnian police in a Islamic “charity” raid in 2001. (“Terrorist Financing Staff Monograph 9/11 Commission and “The Golden Chain”) According to his website, Odinga was educated in Communist East Germany, (Herder Institute, Leipzig & Otto von Guericke Tech. Institute, Magdeburg) (http://www.raila07.com) Odinga’s eldest son is named “Fidel” (http://www.raila07.com)

Perhaps most troubling is Odinga’s links to Islamic extremists in Kenya. According to Voice of America and the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, on 8/29/07, Odinga signed a secret agreement (exposed 11/27) with Sheikh Abdullah Abdi of the National Muslim

Leaders Forum (NAMLEF) in which he agreed to institute Islamic law in exchange for Abdi’s support (eakenya.org)–thereby potentially disenfranchising and curtailing the liberties of millions of Christian Kenyan women. Further, he promised that Muslims suspected of terrorism would be safe from extradition—thereby establishing a ‘safe haven’ for terrorists in Kenya.

After the public outcry, Odinga denied signing a secret agreement. Angry at Odinga’s apparent repudiation, a member of NAMLEF subsequently released the agreement to the press. Odinga then claimed the document was a forgery, but acknowledged a secret agreement had been signed in exchange for Muslim support. Finally, under constant pressure, Odinga released what he claimed was the actual document (“Real” MOU) a considerably watered down version of the original; but still anathema to many Christian groups. “In response to the revelations, The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya released a statement in which church leaders said Raila, in both MOUs, ‘comes across as a presumptive Muslim president bent on forcing Islamic law, religion and culture down the throats of the Kenyan people in total disregard of the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of worship and equal protection of the law’” (“Concerns Raised Over Alleged Vow To Enforce Islamic Law in Kenya” Christian Post 12/18/2007) To many westerners, the idea of imposing Sharia in a predominantly Christian country may have seemed fanciful. However, Kenya has had Sharia courts for family law (not criminal law)—called Khadi courts—since 1963.

569 posted on 04/16/2010 11:18:53 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)

for the record:

ODM MEMO (EXCERPT)

http://www.network54.com/Forum/204096/thread/1200846405/last-1200846405/ODM

The Class Issue

It is possible to trigger a class war by painting the Kibaki Government as an insensitive, uncaring group of Muthaiga Golf clubbers. Available research also suggests that this strategy could also resonate with poor kikuyu youth who feel economically marginalized by their own government. As part of this strategy the party should seek to elevate the emotions within all youth constituents who may it successful, be willing to vote for us in the protest. Visible signs of class disparity will provide important fodder for this theme.

Pro-West

It is absolutely essential that through out this campaign, Raila remain aligned to the Western Countries (such as the United States) in order to take advantage of the deteriorating relationship between them and Kibaki. ODM can expect both financial and political support particularly from the United States.

570 posted on 04/16/2010 11:21:39 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)

source

On February 24, 2008, I reported that the agreement Odinga signed was this one, in public circulation as early as November 9, 2007, posted on the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya’s website :

Despite NAMLEF and Odinga claims (and Snopes and Truth or Fiction silliness) to the contrary, circumstantial evidence — detailed below — still suggests this may be the agreement that Odinga signed and that a later version, published on November 27, 2007, is a fake. (Notably, Barack Obama’s own “Fact Check” website does not mention the name Odinga. I’ll let readers interpret Obama’s Odinga omission.)

571 posted on 04/16/2010 11:31:18 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)

To: Fred Nerks; thouworm; Red Steel; BP2

The Samuel Rubin Foundation

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The Samuel Rubin Foundation states that its general purpose is “to carry on the vision of its founder, Samuel Rubin, whose life was dedicated to the pursuit of peace and justice and the search for an equitable reallocation of the world’s resources.”

The Foundation bears the stamp of Rubin’s life experience. Born in 1901 in Bialystok (which was then in Czarist Russia, now in Poland), Rubin immigrated to America with his parents when he was a young boy.

The family settled in a poor Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, where Rubin’s parents opened a small “dry goods” store.

As a young man, he joined the Communist Party. So committed was he to his political cause, that he named his son Reed in honor of U.S. Communist John Reed, who organized the Communist Labor Party and wrote Ten Days That Shook The World and was ultimately honored by the Soviets with burial in the wall of the Kremlin.

Rubin claimed to be appalled by the “plunder, hunger, and devastation” which he considered to be the bitter fruits of Western capitalism.

Notwithstanding his love of socialism, however, he used his considerable business acumen to earn a vast fortune. In 1937 he founded Faberge Perfumes, developing it from a small specialty shop into a major cosmetics firm.

In 1959 he used his personal wealth to establish the Samuel Rubin Foundation. Four years later, Rubin sold Faberge for $25 million and directed a portion of those proceeds to his Foundation. He died on December 21, 1978.

In 1963 the Samuel Rubin Foundation created the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which lays claim to the title of “the nation’s oldest multi-issue progressive think tank.”

***Samuel Rubin’s daughter, Cora Weiss, was a director of the Rubin Foundation from its inception, and was instrumental in the funding decision to create IPS. Today she is the Foundation’s President. Her husband, Peter Weiss, was the first IPS board chairman and is currently the Rubin Foundation’s Treasurer.

Cora Weiss became known for her role in the psychological warfare conducted against U.S. prisoners of war held in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” during the Vietnam War.

At the time, Weiss was a leader of the group “Women Strike for Peace,” which enjoyed the strong support of the Communist Party. She attempted to coerce the relatives of American prisoners-of-war to make pro-Communist propaganda by promising them, in exchange, contact with their loved ones in Hanoi. None of the families accepted the arrangement.

In the 1980s, Weiss was the director of the Disarmament Program at New York’s Riverside Church. This program was a leader in supporting the Soviet-inspired nuclear freeze movement.

As Riverside’s director, Weiss was one of the organizers of a 1982 disarmament rally — the largest ever held — in New York City. The event was organized by a coalition of Communist and radical groups.

Today in her capacity as President of the Samuel Rubin Foundation, Cora Weiss is a leader in a new effort among large defense- and security-related foundations to coordinate their philanthropy.

This effort commenced in 1999, when a number of large and influential foundations established the Peace and Security Funders Group.

The initial steering committee of PSFG consisted of the Samuel Rubin Foundation, the Ploughshares Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the W. Alton Jones Foundation, the John Merck Fund, the Hewlett Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

Cora Weiss’ husband, the aforementioned Peter Weiss, holds strong leftist credentials in his own right.

The senior partner of the New York law firm Weiss, Dawid, Fross, Zelnick & Lehrman, he is (in addition to being the Treasurer of the Samuel Rubin Foundation) a prominent member of the National Lawyers Guild, the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, and the pro-Castro Center for Constitutional Rights.

The rest of the Rubin Foundation leadership are family members as well. The Vice President is Judy Weiss and the Directors are Daniel Weiss and Tamara Weiss.

Since its inception, the Samuel Rubin Foundation has been a consistent funder of leftist groups and causes. Among the many recent beneficiaries of its philanthropy are the following:

Africa Action; the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute (through which the Rubin Foundation made a donor-advised, or specifically earmarked, grant to the United For Peace and Justice antiwar coalition); Americans for Peace Now; the Center for Constitutional Rights; Educators for Social Responsibility; Grassroots International; Hague Appeal for Peace; the Institute for Policy Studies; the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy; The Nation Institute; the National Lawyers Guild Foundation; the NGO Committee on Disarmament; Pax Christi USA; Nonviolent Peaceforce; the Tides Center; the Transnational Institute (which the Rubin Foundation created in 1973); the Abortion Access Project; the Council on Foundations; the Institute for Public Accuracy; the Interhemispheric Resource Center; International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; the International Rescue Committee; the Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives; MADRE; Peace Child International; Peaceworkers; United for a Fair Economy; the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation; Feminist Press at CUNY; Global Policy Forum; Gun Free South Africa; Human Rights Watch; the Immigrant Workers Resource Center; the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility; the Jane Addams Peace Association (a donor-advised grant earmarked for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; the Paul Robeson Foundation; the Peace Action Education Fund; PeaceWatch Ireland; Population Services International; the United Nations; the Women’s Action for New Directions Education Fund; Global Exchange; the National Security Archive; Alliance for Justice; Fourth Freedom Forum; International Forum on Globalization; the New Israel Fund (through which it made donor-advised grants earmarked for B’Tselem, the Middle East Children’s Association, and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel); the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (through which it made a donor-advised grant to the Abolition 2000 Global Network); Peaceworkers; Physicians for Human Rights; the Progressive Foundation; and September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5348&category=79

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DAMN COMMIE PINKOS! These creeps are a cancer of dangerous
and twisted radical leftists. They find the opportunity for wealth here in America, and then they set out to fund the destruction of the very hand that fed them. SICK!

572 posted on 04/16/2010 11:42:16 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)

573 posted on 04/16/2010 11:44:11 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)

More social justice .. jeeze.
Entitlement is the new byword for
all those who conveniently define
themselves as underprivileged,
apparently.

God help us.

574 posted on 04/16/2010 11:47:50 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)

To: Fred Nerks; Albertafriend

Great find and comment by AlbertaFriend:

Today I have spent more time than I should looking into Frank Montero who is mentioned in the Cora Weiss article above. I’ve found quite a lot but in my searching I came across this:

http://hooverinstitutionla.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html

The letter describes how 0’s education in America has progressed. He says he has completed his Bachelor’s Degree and his Master’s Degree and has obtained the highest honors awarded in U.S. universities. This letter’s date is less than 1 year after 0 Jr.’s birth and even before the date we have used for his departure from Hawaii—June 1962. How in the world is this possible? At this point in time he hasn’t even been in U.S. for 3 full school years.

AlbertaFriend's post
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This is the blog post from Hoover Archivists' Musings dated February 2010:

In the late 1950s, Scheinman, an American businessman, and Mboya, a politician, an advocate for democratic development, and a leader of labor and independence movements in Africa, became fast friends. Mboya, knowing education was the key to independence and a vibrant democracy, was looking for a way to get young Africans (mainly Kenyans) a university education in the United States and Canada.

With Scheinman’s help, connections, and financial support, Mboya created the African American Students Foundation: the vehicle that helped thousands of Africans to come to America.

One of those young students who came to the United States under the umbrella of the African American Students Foundation was none other than Barack Obama Senior.

Both Scheinman’s and Mboya’s papers are housed in the Hoover Institution Archives. In processing those papers, we ran across thank-you letters from the senior Obama to Mboya. Here are several excerpts from one of those letters:

Barack Obama Sr. to Tom Mboya, May 29, 1962, Tom Mboya Papers, Box 41, Hoover Institution Archives.

Mboya went on to become a minister in the cabinet of Kenya’s first independent government in 1963, and many believe the history of Kenya would have been very different had Mboya not been assassinated in 1969.

Hoover Archivists' Musings

575 posted on 04/17/2010 2:38:27 PM PDT by thouworm

To: thouworm; Fred Nerks

FN: Posting here as well as on the other thread. This was my reply to AlbertaFriend on same thread:

Great find AlbertaFriend--- I don't think this has been posted before. We need to find someone to look at those letters; I wrote a comment asking that the letters be posted in the interest of history (fat chance?). Below is the standard fare. However, we should now look upon the letter you posted as a fixed reference point.
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"After all, there was another Obama in the world. Perhaps he would take after him," Abercrombie recalled. Obama graduated with honors in 1962. Earlier that year he was offered a scholarship to pursue a doctorate at Harvard, which provided enough money for Obama but not for his wife and son, according to the candidates' memoir. Obama decided to go anyway.

In a May 1962 letter to Mboya, Obama waxed excitedly about his plans for Harvard. He made no mention of his second wife and new son, but Mboya, who had recently been appointed Kenya's minister of labor, was aware that Obama had a child in Hawaii, and was not happy about Obama's plans to leave his son behind, according to Susan Mboya. In one of a series of letters the two men exchanged, Mboya chastised his protégé, Susan Mboya said. She declined to release the letters. But Tom Mboya eventually relented, according to his daughter, "for he saw that the opportunity for Obama was very great."

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Obama arrived in Cambridge on a brisk fall day in 1962 and swiftly established himself. Then 29, Obama rented an apartment in a rooming house in the shadow of Central Square, which soon became known as a hangout for African students. And when newcomers from Kenya arrived in town, "they knew they could go there and spend a night on the floor and get some information," recalled Paul Nyangani, 66, an uncle of Tom Mboya's and friend of Obama's. There is little record of Obama at Harvard. He received a master's degree in economics in 1965, and did not complete a PhD. But several of his colleagues remember him well.

Frederick Okatcha, a professor of psychology at Kenyatta University who attended Yale University in the mid 1960s, recalls that a group of Africans attending universities on the East Coast would gather in New York, often at the former West End Bar near Columbia University. "Most Kenyans then would talk about the political positions they wanted to hold when they got back," said Okatcha. "Obama was more intellectual."

Although Obama had always enjoyed his beer, he was developing a taste for Johnnie Walker Black that earned him the nickname 'Mr. Double Double.' After Obama ordered his customary double Scotch, "He would shout in that big deep voice, 'Waiter, another double!' said Leo Odera Omolo, a journalist and drinking buddy of Obama's, who lives in Kisumu, a port city in Kenya.

During his time at Harvard, Obama met another woman. Her name was Ruth Nidesand, a teacher and a person of some means. Obama confided in friends that he was attracted to Nidesand in part because, "she was able to pay for some of the social activities that he could not afford," said Omolo. Obama had continued to write Dunham in Hawaii and inquire about their son, but relations between the two deteriorated and they divorced in 1964. The following year, Obama returned to Africa with Nidesand and the couple were soon married.

SOURCE

576 posted on 04/17/2010 2:44:38 PM PDT by thouworm

To: STARWISE; Albertafriend; thouworm; USF

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2492333/posts?page=514#514

“As far as can be determined from incomplete records, Mrs. Roberts and Miss Mooney paid his fare to Hawaii and provided a partial scholarship.”
quote from Airlift to America excerpt

more on Afican Colonial Thread, post #373

#515 No matter how often I read that very comprehensive information you posted, the one thing I cannot find anywhere is a firm, verified date of WHEN Obama Senior left Kenya.

#516
Unlikely Events Recall Story of This President
By Mike Seccombe

To explain. There were two American teachers, Helen Roberts and Elizabeth Mooney living in Nairobi in the late 1960s, and they had taken a shine to a bright young student. They wanted to foster his brilliance and they paid for him to fly to America to continue his education. That Kenyan man was Barack Obama Sr.

But chaos theory involves infinitely complex causation. You could also argue that without the vision of a Kenyan man named Tom Mboya, the President would not exist either. For he arranged for the University of Hawaii to offer the scholarship taken by the senior Mr. Obama. And Mr. Mboya’s activities, in turn, depended on the dedication of a group of activists in America.

Cora Weiss

Cora Weiss, a 53-year summer resident of the Vineyard, was one of those activists. One of the main ones, in fact. And now a book has been written, Airlift to America, chronicling their efforts in bringing hundreds of African students to America to study, between 1959 and 1963.

The book was written by Tom Shachtman, much of it from records which had been stored in Mrs. Weiss’s garage for nearly 50 years. She also did many of the interviews.

“Tom was a young man, ambitious, brilliant. It was the height of colonialism there and of the civil rights movement here,” Mrs. Weiss said. “And Tom did a tour of American colleges, setting up scholarships everywhere, including the University of Hawaii.

“Then he [Mboya] said, ‘But we need an organization to run this.’

“So a few of us gathered in New York and I became the executive director, and on the board of directors,” Mrs. Weiss said. With the initial support of two other families in Riverdale, in the Bronx, where Mrs. Weiss and her husband Peter lived, they started it.

“I worked with a man named Frank Montero and a woman raised in a Japanese concentration camp in California named Mary Hamanaka,” she recalled.

The Weisses were no strangers to activism of this sort. Peter Weiss was on the board of the American Committee on Africa, “a very strong anti-colonial organization.”

“Barack Obama missed out on a seat on that first plane. Luckily the two teachers stepped in and raised money for him to come over on a parallel flight,” she said.

“He picked up the scholarship from the University of Hawaii. And while he was there, he needed money for books and tuition and clothes, some of which we sent him.

“So he wasn’t on the airlift, but he was a member of the airlift family.”

VineYard Gazette Online

#517 ““Barack Obama missed out on a seat on that first plane. Luckily the two teachers stepped in and raised money for him to come over on a parallel flight,” she said.”

There it is again...that NEED to show Obama Senior’s arrival coincided with the first airlift, when in fact, he had already been in Hawaii months before it landed:

THE OBAMA FILE

“When Senior arrived in Hawaii in June 1959, Kenya’s future president, Jomo Kenyatta was in jail in Kenya,” as reported by a story done in Hawaiian paper after he arrived:

“The Washington Post reported that when Barack Obama, Sr. first arrived in Hawaii he was interviewed by the Hawaiian Press, the reporter Hirozawa relays Obama’s comments, “he would study business administration and wanted to return to Kenya to help with its transition from tribal customs to a modern economy.”

He was concerned, he said, about his generation’s disorientation as Kenyans rejected old ways yet struggled with “westernization,” the date of the story was June, 1959.

THE FIRST AFRICAN AIRLIFT ARRIVALS IN SEPTEMBER 1959

#520 Here’s some info to chew on a bit. Cora Weiss, who must be ancient by now, is called here the “Red Queen of Peace”.

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20730

How about that—another communist connection! What a surprise!

Also here is video interview with her about the African Air Lift. I haven’t got time to watch it but it might be interesting.

http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4864

#522 In 1983, Weiss was a delegate to an IPS sponsored US-USSR confab for disarmament. Delegates included members of the Riverside Church, which is allied with the National Council of Churches (NCC) and World Council of Churches (WCC).

The anti-Americanism of Riverside, the NCC and the WCC is well known. All three organizations were advocates for the North Vietnamese. All three organizations were advocates for Marxists revolutions in Africa. (Indeed, the WCC contributed to Robert Mugabe’s Marxist army.) All three organizations were advocates for the Marxist revolutions in Central America in the 1980’s. All three protested the deployment of Pershing missiles in Europe. All three condemned the Gulf War. All three condemned US military action against the Taliban.

Weiss is definitely plugged in to the good old comrade’s network. For example, the IPS Board of Directors contains such liberal luminaries as Harry Belafonte, Time magazine journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, and editor of The Nation magazine Katrina vanden Heuvel (who was formerly the director of the IPS’s Transnational Institute).

Each of these people are well known for their unrepentant leftwing commitments. Ehrenreich is the Vice–Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. vanden Heuvel, is a staunch apologist for socialism. Belafonte was a founding member of the Hollywood chapter of SANE, a precursor of PAN. In December 2000, he received an honorary degree from Cuba’s Higher Arts Institute. Radio Havana reported that Belafonte said Cuba has always been an artistic haven for people who struggle for the liberation of humanity...

And THIS is the woman we are expected to rely upon to tell us when Obama Senior arrived in the US?

#524 “In the 1980s, Weiss was the director of the Disarmament Program at New York’s Riverside Church. This program was a leader in supporting the Soviet-inspired nuclear freeze movement. As Riverside’s director, Weiss was one of the organizers of a 1982 disarmament rally — the largest ever held — in New York City. The event was organized by a coalition of Communist and radical groups.”

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5348&category=79

#526 Cora Weiss From KeyWiki

Cora WeissCora Weiss is the wife of New York Lawyer, Peter Weiss, founder of the Institute for Policy Studies and daughter of Samuel Rubin, a funder of many left-wing organizations. Weiss was a director of the Samuel Rubin Foundation from its inception. She was also instrumental in the funding decision to create the Institute for Policy Studies. She gained notoriety as a leader of the Vietnam War era anti-American coalitions who traveled to Paris and Hanoi for repeated meetings with communist leaders.

Contents [hide] 1 Hard Times Conference 2 Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama 3 Affiliations 4 References

Hard Times Conference In 1976 Cora Weiss for Friendshipment and Women Strike for Peace attended the Weather Underground and Prairie Fire Organizing Committee organized Hard Times Conference Jan 30 - Feb 1 at the University of Chicago.[1]

Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama In early 2008 Cora Weiss, an U.N. Representative, International Peace Bureau signed a petition circulated by Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama[2].

In the coming elections, it is important to remember that war and peace are as much \”women\’s issues\” as are health, the environment, and the achievement of educational and occupational equality. Because we believe that all of these concerns are not only fundamental but closely intertwined, this Tuesday we will be casting our vote for Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. Affiliations

Cora Weiss, formerly active with the Emma Lazarus Clubs and Women Strike for Peace, played a leadership role in the CPUSA-controlled anti-Vietnam coalitions New Mobilization Committee, People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice which collaborated closely with the WPC. She received considerable media attention for her numerous meetings with Vietnamese Communist officials in Paris and Hanoi and for her controversial role in the Committee of Liaison and in a project to provide material aid to Hanoi, the Friendshipment/Bach Mai Hospital Fund.

She and her husband, Peter Weiss, president of the IPS board, are officers of the Samuel Rubin Foundation, which provides the major financial support to IPSITNI, and of the Fund for Tomorrow, a smaller foundation which is apparently wholly funded by the Rubin foundation, which supports many activist groups spun-off by IPS including WISE.[3]

#537 Today I have spent more time than I should looking into Frank Montero who is mentioned in the Cora Weiss article above. I’ve found quite a lot but in my searching I came across this:

http://hooverinstitutionla.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html

This article contains a letter from 0 Sr. dated May 29, 1962 to Tom Mboya. It is part of a collection of papers from a William X. Scheinman who was the president of the African-American Students’ Foundation(the air-lift sponsors) and also became a close friend of Mboya. The letter describes how 0’s education in America has progressed. He says he has completed his Bachelor’s Degree and his Master’s Degree and has obtained the highest honors awarded in U.S. universities. This letter’s date is less than 1 year after 0 Jr.’s birth and even before the date we have used for his departure from Hawaii—June 1962. How in the world is this possible? At this point in time he hasn’t even been in U.S. for 3 full school years.

577 posted on 04/17/2010 2:44:52 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)

To: Albertafriend; thouworm; USF

Here is the text from 0 Sr.’s letter:

As you know I have been able to finish my B.A.(hon.)degree and done my M.A. within three years only as contrasted to the normal four years for a B.A. and one to two years for M.A. I have therefore been able to cut on at least two years for my B.A. and Master’s. Further during this period I have been able to get the highest academic honours that anyone can get in America and as for the University of Hawaii I was the only foreign student to get. I have been awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Honours Award, the Phi Kappa Phi Honours Award, the Omnicrom Delta Kappa Phi Honours Award all for high attainment in scholarship and leadership. These are the highest honours that anyone can get in the U.S.A. for high academic attainments.

This letter is impossible to fit with the established/alleged 0 Sr. timeline.

540 posted on Sunday, April 18, 2010 6:59:09 AM by Albertafriend

578 posted on 04/17/2010 3:05:47 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)

America Votes Obama’s father was plagued by fears after Mboya’s death
Posted Wednesday, November 5 2008 at 19:44

Details gathered from a series of interviews with Barack Obama Sr’s confidants in the US reveal that at some point of his life, the controversial yet brilliant man claimed that Mboya’s killers also “had me in their list of targets”.

(snip)

As an ardent critic of former President Jomo Kenyatta, Obama Sr believed that he was in the Government’s bad books for his voluble criticism of the style of governance in post-independent Kenya.

Pake Zane, who was with Obama Sr at the University of Hawaii, says: “Obama told me that he strongly believed that the people who killed Mboya were the same ones who had hit him (Obama) with a car and left him for the dead a few years before Mboya died.”

(snip)

The 66-year-old Chinese Hawaiian speaks of Obama Sr as a careerist who was ultimately consumed by alcohol and women.

(snip)

Even though it is never mentioned in his son’s book, “Dreams From My Father”, Obama Sr, according to his comrades, may have had his fate sealed when he agreed to testify before the commission that looked into the killing of Mboya.

Whereas his decline was fast and tragic, it is the veil of mystery that still clouds Obama Sr that has not been discussed in public domains.

According to press accounts at that time, the elder Obama did not handle his political exile well while in the United States as a student. A variety of microfilmed newspaper cuttings show that he was involved in a series of car crashes, often involving drunk-driving.

(snip)

Besides his elegant style of dressing, Obama Sr, recalls Richard Hook, who worked with him as a development adviser for Harvard University’s Institute for International Development in Kenya had a deep resonant base with a timbre you could not forget.

579 posted on 04/17/2010 3:13:05 PM PDT by thouworm

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/09/21/a_fathers_charm_absence/?page=1

On a hot July weekend nearly 40 years ago, Barack Obama Sr. was shopping on a busy Nairobi street when he ran into his friend and mentor Tom Mboya, one of Kenya’s most charismatic political leaders. The two chatted for several minutes and Obama kidded him that his car was illegally parked.

“I told him, ‘You are parked on a yellow line. You will get a ticket,” Obama, the late father of the US presidential candidate, would later testify, according to press accounts at the time. And then the two men parted.

Minutes later, Mboya was shot twice and died in a pool of blood. It was a crime that convulsed the newly independent nation and would, in Obama’s eyes, trigger a steep decline in his own promising career. Then 33, and a freshly minted government economist, he testified in the ensuing trial, an act which probably enraged those responsible for Mboya’s assassination.

Obama, according to one friend, was convinced he had been targeted for murder after his testimony.

“He said he had been hit by a car not long ago and left for dead,” said Pake Zane, 66, who attended the University of Hawaii with Obama and had not publicly discussed their 1974 conversation until now. “He did not say specifically who had done it, but he said it was the same people who killed Mboya.”

http://www.billwarnerpi.com/2008/10/if-sen-john-mccains-father-had-been.html

As the Kenyatta regime became the subject of increasing controversy, Obama Sr found many of his colleagues distancing themselves from him. And then, on the morning of July 5, 1969, things got infinitely worse. Tom Mboya’s assassination threw the country into political chaos. And for Obama, it was a personal disaster. Not only had he lost his friend and mentor, but because he happened to have been at the scene he was called upon to testify.

580 posted on 04/17/2010 3:28:06 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)

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