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]

Abercrombie witnessed the crumbling of Barack Obama Sr. during a trip to Africa in 1968. He and a mutual friend from Hawaii stayed with their old pal in Nairobi. “It was clear to us how disappointed he was,” Abercrombie recalls. “He was drinking. There was a bitterness in him, an edge.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301784_4.html?sid=ST2007121301893

[Fred Nerks]

Hoover Archivists' Musings

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Barack Obama Sr. to Tom Mboya, May 29, 1962

HOOVER INSTITUTION, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

January 25, 2010 news

Hoover Archives Unveils Correspondence Between Kenyan Independence Leader and American Philanthropist Responsible for Helping Educate Hundreds of Kenyans Including Barack Obama Sr.

Kenyan university students arriving at Idlewild Airport, New York, 1959 (William X. Scheinman Papers, Box 49:10, Hoover Institution Archives).The Hoover Institution Library and Archives recently announced the opening of the papers of William X. Scheinman (1927–1999), a longtime friend of and correspondent with Kenyan independence leader Tom Mboya. The highlight of the collection is the rich correspondence between Scheinman and Mboya, which contains hundreds of letters, beginning in 1957 and ending only with Mboya’s untimely death from an assassin’s bullet in 1969. Mboya served in the first cabinet of Kenya after it achieved independence from Great Britain in 1963.

Scheinman, an American businessman and investment adviser, first met Mboya in 1956. In subsequent meetings the two men, realizing that the future development of an independent Kenya required an educated populace, developed a program to bring Kenyan students to the United States to pursue their university studies. Founded in 1959, the African American Students Foundation, with Scheinman as its president, helped make it possible for funding the education of hundreds of Kenyan students to study in the United States; among them was President Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr.

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[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. Tom Shachtman, working in the African-American Students Foundation (aasf) papers for a book on the airlifts, has found that the elder Obama came in 1959 with support from the aasf but appears to have been routed a different way as he made his way to the University of Hawaii. Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (New York, 1995), 9; “Eighty-One Kenya Airlift Students Arrived New York Sept. 9th 1959,” box 3, Robinson Papers; Tom Shachtman telephone interview by James H. Meriwether, Aug. 19, 2008, notes (confirmed via e-mail by Shachtman) (in James H. Meriwether’s possession).

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WND - '62 letter from father ignores Obama, mom 'My wife is in Nairobi and I would really appreciate any help you may give her'

Posted: November 09, 2010

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[Fred Nerks]

I think I get the picture now; the son of a kenyan goat-herder left the school at Maseno in 1953, married in 1954, and as he said at the interview in Hawaii in 1962, he hadn’t been back to Kenya for seven years, he must have left Kenya in 1955.

Right?

Not quite. His eldest child Malik was six years of age when he left Kenya, remember? How does that work?

I’ll try again.

The son of a kenyan goat-herder had a six year old son when he left Kenya in 1959, so he must have married when he was 17, and was working in Nairobi for an arab as a clerk...we all remember that, don’t we? And he was a friend of Mboya - wonder how they met? - but never mind, Kezia was pregnant when he left Kenya to go to Hawaii...and had a two year-old.

Hold it!

Didn’t the family in Kenya state at an interview that their son of a kenyan goat-herder relative went to the US, worked for an oil company and married a white woman named Anna Toot?

Yes, they did.

So we’ll have another go. The son of a kenya goat-herder - if we take him at his word, left Kenya seven years before he left Hawaii, and that makes it 1955, right? Ah! Beginning to see the light now...that’s why Kezia was confused, she must have married the son of the kenyan goat-herder in 1953, because at another interview she said her eldest was TWO years old when he left...

Getting closer?

In 2008 Kezia said her oldest son Malik was 50. But if the son of a kenyan goat-herder left Kenya in 1955 like he said at the Hawaii interview, Malik would have to be at least 55 if he was two years old when...

I’ve mucked up again, evidently.

It’s all too hard. Let someone else work it all out. What I can’t figure out is how could Mboya and the son of a kenya goat-herder be such good friends? If he left Kenya in 1955, he would have been around 19 years of age and Mboya who was five years older, was in England, studying at Oxford.

At least one thing seems clear. The son of a kenyan goat-herder was never part of the first airlift of students which landed at Idlewild three months before he showed up in Hawaii. And when he was first interveiwed in Hawaii in June 1959, he told the reporter he only had enough money for three semesters and needed to find work to support himself.

Just got lucky, I guess.

[Fred Nerks]

FOR THE RECORD

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
PAMELA MBOYA’ DEATH A SETBACK TO UNRAVELLING MBOYA’S MURDER 40 YEARS AGO

at 7:20 AM · THE STANDARD
NAIROBI, KENYA

By Kepher Otieno and John Oywa

The death of Pamela Mboya could be a setback to efforts to unravel the murder of her husband.

Relatives and friends of former Planning Minister Thomas Joseph Mboya yesterday said Pamela was planning to push for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission so that Kenyans could finally get to know why Mboya was murdered in cold blood in July 1969.

Mrs Mboya, 70, died at a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she was undergoing treatment on Monday.

Mr Otieno Nundu, a former personal assistant to the late Mboya and who was with him minutes before his assassination, said Mrs Mboya had planned to appear before the truth commission about her husband’s death.

“She was to lead Mboya’s friends and relatives to the commission. Now we are back to zero,” said Mr Nundu.

He added: “It is a big shock. With her death, many secrets about Tom may never be known.”

Annan Team

In February last year, Pamela wrote to the Kofi Annan mediation team and expressed her willingness to testify regarding the unresolved murder of her husband 40 years ago.

Mboya was shot in broad daylight on July 5, 1969 on Nairobi’s Government Road (Now Moi Avenue).

http://africanewsonline.blogspot.com/2009/01/pamela-mboya-death-setback-to.html

[thouworm]

Your tenacity in the search of truth is boundless. If it would be of any benefit to you, I would claim you as a member of my immediate family. :-)

One, or both, of us has to post a revised chronology...as best fits the unadulterated facts as they appear to be, given our best guess. Already, my brain hurts... so you go first.

I.E., we need a new best-guess time-line-—a “simple” DATE-EVENT time-line.

[Fred Nerks]

I’m thinking we need to produce some kind of truth serum into which we immerse ‘Dreams From My Father’ ... it has to be a medium that disolves lies; so that the ink rises to a scum at the top. And what is left on the pages will be the truth.

But there’ll be nothing but empty pages -

[Fred Nerks]

FOR THE RECORD

Box: 18-20African-American Students Foundation File, 1958-1963.

Scope and Content Note

Bulletins, clippings, contracts, correspondence, forms, press releases, printed matter, records, and reports, arranged alphabetically by physical form Box/Folder: 18 : 7-8General, 1960-1961.

Scope and Content Note

Bulletins, forms, memoranda, and printed matterBox/Folder: 18 : 9Clippings, 1960-1961
Box/Folder: 18 : 10Contracts, 1960
Box/Folder: 19 : 1Correspondence 1958-1959
Box/Folder: 19 : 2-3Correspondence 1960
Box/Folder: 19 : 4-5Correspondence 1961
Box/Folder: 19 : 6Correspondence 1962-1963
Box/Folder: 19 : 7Financial records, 1960-1961
Box/Folder: 19 : 8Press releases, 1960-1961
Box/Folder: 20 : 1Reports, 1960-1961
Box/Folder: 20 : 2Student records, 1960-1961

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt0k4033gs;style=oac4;view=dsc#c01-1.3.6.5

[Fred Nerks]

Malcolm X meeting with students from East Africa New York, New York, United States

About September 13, 1960 Organization: African American Students Foundation

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

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[Fred Nerks]

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.

Housed At: Michigan State University Library, Special Collections
Location: 100 Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States
Catalog/Finding Aid: view
Restrictions: The archive may not yet be processed. Contact in advance.
Phone: 517-353-8700
Related Website: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/

http://africanactivist.msu.edu/organization.php?name=African+American+Students+Foundation

[Fred Nerks]

CORA WEISS HELD THE PURSE STRINGS!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278969/posts?page=567#567

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

VineYard Gazette Online

http://www.mvgazette.com/article.php?22734

[thouworm]

recent related speeches, lectures, and interviews by Cora Weiss related to subject Barack Obama, Sr.that may yield additional research material.

When I originally posted research, I had recalled that Weiss was not altogether satisfied with Shachtman's book and had considered writing one of her own.
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The story of the airlifts is a continuing one. On this page, we hope to share with you news we receive that touches on the airlifts, their participants, and the accomplishments. On a separate page we ask our readers to share memories and thoughts they have on these subjects.

ARTHUR BORDEN, COUNSEL FOR THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS FOUNDATION passed away on July 23. His obituary is available in the July 26, 2010 edition of The New York Times.

The former principals of the nonprofit shared the following comments upon his death:

We are saddened to learn of the death on July 23, 2010 of Arthur Borden who incorporated the African American Students Foundation in 1958 and was a dedicated supporter of this unique initiative which brought so many students to the US from East Africa. The vast majority of the Airlift students returned to become the nation builders of their soon to be independent countries. The stories from that successful adventure can be found on the pages of this web site and in the book, Airlift to America: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F Kennedy, Tom Mboya and 800 East African Students changed their world and ours, by Tom Shachtman. St Martin's Press. Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of Arthur.

Cora Weiss, former Executive Director, AASF
Ted Kheel, former Chair of the Board of AASF

THE NEW YORK TIMES, IN ITS BLOG “PAPERCUTS”, INVITED COMMENT FROM TOM SHACHTMAN, author of “Airlift to America” on the events leading up the founding of the African American Students Foundation. The comments were published online on May 7, 2010.

IN A LETTER IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, CORA WEISS TALKS ABOUT THE ROLE OF AIRLIFT IN BARACK OBAMA SR.’S ACADEMIC CAREER. In the April 29, 2010 issue of the New York Times Book Review, Cora Weiss, executive director of the African American Students Foundation, added to the account of the airlift of African students mentioned by Barack Obama in his speech at Selma in 2007 and described in Garry Wills’s review of David Remnick’s biography of President Obama, “The Bridge”. She wrote “Barack Obama Sr., who greatly admired Mboya, did not come on the first flight, but he was a member of the airlift generation, arriving here in 1959 with the support of two American women teachers. While he was a student at the University of Hawaii, the A.A.S.F. gave him three grants.”LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HOSTS TALK ON AIRLIFT: Tom Shachtman, author of Airlift to America, and Cora Weiss, former Executive Director of the African American Students Foundation, spoke on March 12, 2010 about the Airlift at a Library of Congress Event, on the occasion of the Africa Section's 50th anniversary celebrations. Click here for the press release and details. To see a video of the event, click here.

PAPER ON AIRLIFT PRESENTED AT AFRICA STUDIES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING: On November 19, Cora Weiss presented a paper on “Hidden Documents, the story of the African American Students Foundation and the Airlift,” at the annual meeting of the Africa Studies Association in New Orleans, sponsored by the African Librarians Council. Click here to see Cora Weiss' full presentation.

INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES, AFRICA ACTION, AND PHELPS STOKES CO-SPONSOR AIRLIFT BOOK EVENT IN WASHINGTON D.C.: On October 6, 2009, the author of Airlift to America spoke in Washington D.C. at an event hosted by the Institute for Policy Studies, Africa Action and the Phelps Stokes Fund. Cora Weiss, Former Executive Director of African American Students Foundation, the sponsor of the Airlift, introduced the author. The speakers also included Badi Foster, President and CEO of the Phelps Stokes Fund and Gerald LeMelle, Director of Africa Action, both of whom come from families that were active with the Airlift. Laverne Page of the Africa Section of the Library of Congress told of her husband's brother in law, Festus Molenje, an Airlift student who graduated from Adelphi University. Bob Levey, who has been a popular Washington Post columnist and whose family hosted a number of airlift students, told wonderful stories and spoke some Swahili that he remembered. The packed room of 65 people included others with ties to the Airlift as well, such as Steve Nkurlu, Director of recreation and respite services at the Easter Seals Camp in Maryland, who is nephew of Yona Nkurlu, an Airlift student who attended Gustavus College in Maine.

BOOK RECEPTION IN NEW YORK (September 17, 2009): Airlift organizers Cora Weiss, Theodore Kheel and Mathilde Krim hosted a moving reception for several hundred, including many with ties to the airlifts, on September 17, 2009, near the United Nations. Ambassador Zachary Muburi-Muita of Kenya, Ambassador Ruhakana Rugunda of Uganda, and Ambassador Augustine Mahiga, of Tanzania co-hosted the event and spoke at it, along with Diana Ofwona, the daughter of an airlift student, now with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Niger; Olara Otunnu, friend of Barack Obama, Sr., former foreign minister of Uganda, former Under Secretary General and Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict at the United Nations; and Haron Andima, airlift student, now a professor at Bronx Community College. To see a video of the event, click here.

MARTHA’S VINEYARD BOOK READING ATTENDED BY HARRY BELAFONTE (August 27, 2009): The book “Airlift to America” was launched with a reading and a signing at Midnight Farm on Martha’s Vineyard, attended by Harry Belafonte, who served on the Board of Directors of the African American Students Foundation, supported the Airlift in its fundraising efforts, and wrote the foreword to the book. In a story about the event, entitled “Unlikely Events Recall Story of This President,” the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette interviewed airlift organizer Cora Weiss about some of the history. The Boston Globe also reported on the pre-publication celebration, in “Scene Around the Vineyard”. Visit our photographs page to see some pictures taken at the event.

Support for this website was provided by the TASK Foundation, named for its founders, Ted and Ann S. Kheel, who helped organize the airlift and hosted airlift students at their house.

Airlift to America.org

[Fred Nerks]

Scene around the Vineyard Harry Belafonte at a Martha's Vineyard gathering. (Peter Simon)

Harry Belafonte, pupil of W.E.B. DuBois, friend of Mao and Stalin, mentor to Frank Marshall Davis...

[Fred Nerks]

In addition to the Mboya correspondence, the William X. Scheinman papers contain records of the African American Students Foundation, documenting fund-raising efforts, led by such personalities as Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and Jackie Robinson, and records of the foundation’s various activities from 1959 to 1963. Also included are extensive correspondence files that record Scheinman’s long-standing interest in Africa, as seen in letters to and from African political and cultural leaders such as Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi, Zimbabwean independence leader Joshua Nkomo, longtime Zambia president Kenneth Kaunda, and Malawian independence leaders Henry Chipembere and M.W. Kanyama Chiume, as well as South African singer and human rights activist Miriam Makeba.

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MIRIAM MAKEBA WITH HER HUSBAND STOKELY CARMICHAEL IN 1968

Stokely Carmichael's speeches at the University of Washington and Garfield High School on April 19, 1967 helped galvanize interest in the concept of Black Power

The Black Panther Party in Seattle, 1968-1970

[Fred Nerks]

Interesting connection, from your Airlift to America Org link,

The advisers to the Kennedy Foundation arrive in Nairobi to review the airlift operations. Back row, left to right: Albert Sims, Institute of International Education; Gordon Hagberg, African-American Institute; Theodore Kheel, secretary-treasurer of AASF. Front row, left to right : an unidentified man, Dr. Aaron Brown of the Phelps Stokes Fund, Tom Mboya, and Father Gordon Fournier of the Foundation for All Africa (1960).

Image Source

Cold warrior for racial equality

Airlift students withTom Mboya (fourth right), Gloria and Gordon Hagberg (second and third right respectively).

...Their cook was Hussein Onyango Obama, none other than the paternal grandfather of President Obama. Gloria recalls the times Hussein’s son, the youthful student Barack Obama Sr, would visit their house, announcing: “I’ve come to see the old man!”

Although the young Obama Sr. left for the University of Hawaii before the first formal student airlift, he did maintain his friendship with the Hagbergs when he returned to Kenya.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN INSTITUTE. GORDON HAGBERG. The very same Institute referrenced by David Horowitz in the book THE ROCKEFELLERS. In which David notes that the AFRICAN-AMERICAN INSTITUTE was instrumental in bringing several thousands of foreign students, many from Africa, to the US -IN THE EARLY FIFTIES.

So if anyone would know WHEN the son of THEIR COOK, Hussein Onyango Obama left Kenya, one might ask GORDON AND GLORIA HAGBERG.

[thouworm]

very interesting, BUT...From your source:

"In 1935, she married Cornell University graduate Gordon Hagberg, a newspaperman born in India of missionary parents.

With the intensification of the Cold War, America began expanding cultural programmes in many of the world’s emerging nations.

Having always wanted to return to India, in 1950 Gordon got a job in the United States Information Service (USIS) and the couple spent two years in Madras.

It seemed almost fated that their next overseas assignment with USIS would bring them to East Africa, as Gordon’s parents had met in Lamu and married in Zanzibar.

In 1956, when the Hagbergs arrived in Nairobi, the Emergency was in its last two years."
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Assuming BHO, Sr left Africa earlier than 1959 (AND earlier than 1956 according to his statement, the time line doesn't work.

On the other hand, that doesn't mean they may not be in possession of some useful information.

[Fred Nerks]

...Having always wanted to return to India, in 1950 Gordon got a job in the United States Information Service (USIS) and the couple spent two years in Madras. It seemed almost fated that their next overseas assignment with USIS would bring them to East Africa, as Gordon’s parents had met in Lamu and married in Zanzibar. In 1956, when the Hagbergs arrived in Nairobi, the Emergency was in its last two years." ~~~~~~~~~~~~

I wonder where they were between 1952 and 1956?

[Fred Nerks]

NAMES

Langston Hughes was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which ran from March 25 - 27, 1949 in New York City. It was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. The conference was a follow-up to a similar gathering, the strongly anti-America, pro-Soviet World Congress of Intellectuals which was held in Poland, August 25 - 28, 1948.[2]

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Investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, a former investigator with the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, presented evidence Obama was mentored, while attending high school in Hawaii, by Frank Marshall Davis, an African-American poet and journalist who was also a CPUSA member.

The authors, in a separate report, document Obama's ties to radicals in Chicago who helped launch his career.

In a paper entitled "Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection," the authors document that in 1948, Davis decided to move from Chicago to Honolulu at the suggestion of what they describe as two "secret CPUSA members," actor Paul Robeson and Harry Bridges, the head of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen Union, or ILWU.

In Chicago, Davis had worked for the Chicago Star newspaper; in Honolulu, he was hired as a reporter for the Honolulu Record, both identified by Kincaid and Romerstein as "communist front newspapers."

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Worked for Associated Negro Press Those books made Davis's reputation and cemented his relationships with Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and other leading black writers whom he met while participating in the federal Works Progress Administration Writers' Project and other organizations

Read more: Frank Marshall Davis Biography - Victim of Attempted Lynching, Worked for Associated Negro Press, Moved to Hawaii...

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The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 presented the most troubling dilemma for American Communists. It came on the heels of the bloody anti-Trotskyite Great Purges in which many CPUSA members quit the party with apprehension and fear over what the Party had become. Those who remained during the purges were, for the most part, dedicated anti-fascists. However, with the coming of the Communazi era wherein German Chancellor Adolf Hitler became an ally of the Soviet Union against French and British Imperialism, only the most ardent Stalinists continued in the party who were willing to overlook, and justify, Stalin's murderous excesses. Among them were Frank Marshall Davis.

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HONOLULU, Hawaii – The late Marxist activist Frank Marshall Davis, frequently accompanied by young Barack Obama and his grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham, sold marijuana and cocaine from a "Chicago style" hot dog cart Davis operated near his home on Kuhio Avenue in Waikiki in the early 1970s, WND has established.

A credible source, a well-known resident of Honolulu who spoke at length with WND on condition he not be named, disclosed that Davis was the source of drugs consumed by Obama. Davis was also the author of an autobiographical novel boasting of "swinging" and sex with minors, a copy of which WND obtained from Andrew Walden, a resident of Hilo on the island of Hawaii and publisher of the Hawaii Free Press...

..."Obama was a young kid, about 14 or 15 years old," the source told WND. "I was told his name was Barry, and there was no doubt Barry knew Davis was selling marijuana and cocaine as well as hot dogs from the stand."

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Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a black poet and writer (he wrote for the Honolulu Record, a Communist newspaper), and a known member of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

Davis’ good friend Paul Robeson, who himself was a dedicated Stalinist, persuaded him in 1948 to move to Honoloulu, Hawaii. In 1950 Edward Berman, a member of the NAACP‘s Honolulu branch, testified to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that Davis had “sneaked” into local NAACP meetings to “propagandize” the organization’s members about America’s “racial problems,” with “the avowed intent and purpose of converting it into a front for the Stalinist line.”

Davis was identified unequivocally as a CPUSA member in a 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii (CSALTH), which, along with HUAC, also charged that Davis was affiliated with a number of communist-front organizations. According to Max Friedman, a former undercover member of several Communist-controlled “anti-war” groups, Davis testified in 1956 before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and took the Fifth Amendment when asked about his Communist Party membership.

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Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin

Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou and James Baldwin

to be continued...

[LucyT]

0bama, the African Colonial

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Thanks, Fred Nerks. Excellent research, again.

[LucyT]