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.

[Boogieman]

“And then it appears, when he ‘visited his mother’ in Hawaii (date to be established) driving without a licence, he gave the name Bari Shabazz...”

Why does it “appear” that way? Has anyone ever found a single shred of evidence connecting Obama to the name “Bari Shabazz”???

[Fred Nerks]

Has anyone ever found a single shred of evidence connecting Obama to the name “Bari Shabazz”???

No. Only a mugshot of the driver would identify who it was.

It 'appears' that way because he wrote to his girlfriend McNear from Hawaii in 1982, when he told her he was visiting his mother. Nothing certain, just a coincidence...

But far more likely than the Martha Trowbridge scenario that had Barrington Hughh Anthony Smith, born in 1959 in Kingston Jamaica, who changed his name to Bari Shabazz in 1974, was actually Obama, who died in 1994 and was replaced by a CIA stooge, which was utter garbage.

Reading this post, I noticed you showed an interest at the time and I wanted to add the recent information from the article about the letters of Alexandra McNear.

[Fred Nerks]

This is the post to which you contributed a number of comments on the subject:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2980093/posts

I am essentially in agreement with you that Barrington Hughh Anthony Smith born in Jamaica in 1959, who had a name change to Baril Shabazz in 1974, was not, could not, have been Obama, and Obama did NOT die in 1994.

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2980093/posts?page=12#12

[LucyT]

https://twitter.com/StormIsUponUs

Joe M
@StormIsUponUs

Apr 27

Joe M Retweeted Joe M

Obama faked his:
Name
Religion
Wife
Kids
Birthplace
Nationality
Education
Career
Allegience
And then he sealed his records in his very first Executive Order to stop the public from finding out.
...

[LucyT]

…

https://twitter.com/dbongino

Dan Bongino

@dbongino

5 hours ago

When the clear eyes of history look back at this moment two things will leap off the page:

1) The Obama administration conducted the most comprehensive & corrupt political spying operation in American history

2) The corrupt media desperately tried to cover it up.

.

[Fred Nerks]

follow-up comment:

MY COLUMBIA COLLEGE ROOMMATE:

Obama and Boerner snapped photos of each other when they were roommates on West 109th Street. Inset: Boerner today. PHOTOS: Obama and boerner in apartment, courtesy Phil Boerner ’84

[Fred Nerks]

President Obama chipped in money for his aunt's burial costs but skipped funeral to go golfing. LINK

This framed photograph of President Obama and his aunt, Zeituni Onyango, taken when he was an Illinois state senator, was displayed in her home in Boston during as a 2009 photo shoot

Onyango became the subject of media attention during Obama's 2008 presidential campaign after press found out she was living illegally in the United States at that time. A judge later waived orders for Onyango to be deported, and she has been living in the country legally since 2010.

In 2001 when then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama's first child was born, it was Obama's aunt Kenyan aunt Zeituni Onyango who stepped in to help new parents Barack and Michelle. Onyango, who had moved to the United States the year before on a visa, took care of baby Sasha and kept the Obama's Chicago home in tidy order.

~~~~

Zeituni Onyango arrived in the US in 2000, WAS NANNY FOR SASHA OBAMA, was 'discovered' by the press in 2008, had her deportation waived in 2010...and died in 2014.

Buried in Boston? NOPE, BURIED IN KENYA

MUSLIM FUNERAL FOR OBAMA AUNT. LINK

"We have buried the late Zeitun Onyango in accordance with the regulations of Islam," Sheikh Musa Ismail, a Muslim cleric who led the funeral prayers, told Anadolu Agency at the Sunni Muslim cemetery in the port city of Kisumu.

[Brown Deer]

Buried in Boston? NOPE, BURIED IN KENYA

Probably, at the cost of the American taxpayers.

There was tight security at the cemetery for fear that Ebel Mboya Okoko, a Christian man claiming he was Onyango's husband, might try to disrupt the burial...

Remember this lie?

WASHINGTON – After saying there was no evidence the two had ever met, the White House acknowledged Thursday that President Obama once lived for a few weeks with his uncle, Onyango Obama, a Kenyan who was in the United States illegally and faced possible deportation.

[Fred Nerks]

Auntie Zeituni Onyango Dies in USA, Obama CALLS Raila thanks him for Visiting the deceased auntie in hospital April 8, 2014

Zeituni applied for political asylum after her residence expired prompting extreme right politicians to make a fuss about her status.

[Fred Nerks]

[Fred Nerks]

link to missing image:

http://nairobiwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/raila1.jpg

Raila Odinga visits Zeituni in hospital

[Brown Deer]

looks like just a Drivers License Number, but no SSN behind the tape.

http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/09/01/obamas_uncle_set_to_fight_deportation/?page=full

With the help of his older brother, Barack Obama Sr. - the father of the future president - Obama arrived in the United States in 1963 to study at Browne & Nichols in Cambridge...

Obama owed the IRS a total of $3,876.52 for the tax years 1987 and 1988, according to a lien filed in the Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in 1990. Later, the agency filed another lien targeting Obama under the name of Obama O. Onyango, saying he owed them $971.35 in taxes for the 1990 tax year. The registry has no record showing that Obama paid the bills.

[Fred Nerks]

My impression is that Omar Onyango arrived from Kenya late in June, 1962, to coincide with his brother's arrival after leaving Hawaii on 22nd of June. They lived together at 170 Magazine Street. Young Omar attended a private high school, and when Barack Hussein Obama was forced to leave Harvard and the US in August, 1964, young Omar was left behind and dropped out of school. Where Barack Hussein obtained the funds to bring his younger brother to the US and place him into an expensive private school remains to be explained.

[Fred Nerks]

The Legacy of Obama’s Illegal Alien Aunt
Townhall.com ^ | April 11, 2014 | Michelle Malkin

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3143240/posts

“...Auntie Zeituni had no job skills, no special talent, no compelling reason to keep her here in America as an asset to our culture or our economy. She didn’t value the American Dream. She was a dependency nightmare. She collected $700 a month in welfare benefits and disability payments totaling $51,000. Somehow, Auntie Zeituni also drummed up money to apply for asylum and finagled her way into both federal and state public housing in Boston.

She contributed nothing to this country. The only “work” she did was gaming the system, complaining about her lot and blaming everyone else for her problems while they subsidized her 14-year illegal overstay...”

[Fred Nerks]

President Obama finally admits he DID live with his drunk driving illegal immigrant uncle despite White House claiming last year they’d never even met
•Onyango Obama, 69, has been an illegal resident of the U.S. since his student visa ran out in 1970
•Judge ruled that he is now allowed to apply to be a legal resident
•President first denied ever meeting his uncle but Onyango claimed in court that Barack stayed with him for three weeks while at law school in 1988
•Today the White House released a statement saying that the President did know and stay with his uncle ‘Omar’ but they have not seen each other in 20 years and not spoken with one another in the past decade

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519002/President-Obama-admits-lived-drunk-driving-uncle-Onyango.html

[Fred Nerks]

ANOTHER REFERENCE TO THE 1983 VISIT TO KENYA:

[Fred Nerks]

found the ‘missing’ pages:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3407407/posts?q=1&;page=281

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3407407/posts?page=187#187

any questions?

[Fred Nerks]

FOR THE RECORD:

How an African Student invited Malcolm X to Oxford Union debate. Louis NthendaJune 07,2016

Larger-frame photo, left to right: Nthenda, unidentified, Malcolm X, Oxford Union President Eric Abrahams. The smaller frame omits Abrahams due to size. [From The Archives]

My name is Louis Nthenda --a Malawi national, now aged 72 and living in Japan-- the young Black man talking to the girl in the photo behind and to the right of Malcolm X.

[Brown Deer]

I don’t remember seeing some of those photos.

Is this one Maya Soetoro?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3407407/posts?page=183#183

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

[fatima]

Bump.