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.

[WildHighlander57]

The instructions on Stanley Ann’s passport app say

“Amend to include (exclude) name of children”

Putting a name without parentheses means to include him/her.

Putting a name in parentheses means to exclude him/her.

Looks like in 1968 —3 years into a valid passport good from 1965 to 1970— she was adding Barack Hussein Obama and removing Soebarkah.

Then, for some reason (insufficient legal documents?) she took —both— names off.

[Was there an Indonesia street kid named Soebarkah, previously adopted by Lolo and got added onto his passport when Stanley Ann couldn’t add him to hers?

Was there some other kid that also got adopted by Lolo, and got added to his passport too?

And that other kid was the one who fell out of a tree in Indonesia, walked with a limp per Lia, and later died from the effects of the fall?

(Lia conveniently passed away in 2008 after 0’s election, before she could meet 0 and see whether or not he limped.)]

[WildHighlander57]

“...On his arrival in Hawaii in 1969/1970 he apparently arrived on his own, unidentified, and was held in charge of the immigration authorities.”

That passport app by Stanley Ann, adding &(removing) children’s names, was in 1968

[Fred Nerks]

I have not, (and no other person to be included or to be included in the documentation has since acquiring United States Citizenship has,) etc etc etc...

INCLUDED OR TO BE INCLUDED?

[morphing libertarian]

Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in upstate New York.

great name

[Fred Nerks]

You aren’t helping by throwing every half baked ingredient into the pot and furiously stirring. State your case, show the documentation if any, and leave it at that.

There was no Indonesian Street Kid, the Soebarkah family is a prominent clan close to the Indonesian Royal Family. A Soebarkah (Subarkah) was a pall bearer at the funeral of President Suharto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto

Suharto’s body was taken from Jakarta to the Giri Bangun mausoleum complex near the Central Java city of Solo. He was buried alongside his late wife in a state military funeral with full honours, with the Kopassus elite forces and KOSTRAD commandos as the honour guard and pallbearers and Commander of Group II Kopassus Surakarta Lt. Colonel Asep Subarkah.[124]

[WildHighlander57]

That list of actions:

naturalized as a foriegn citizen,

took an oath of allegiance to a foreign state,

joined the army of a foreign state,

worked for a foreign state,

voted in a foreign states election,

renounced us citizenship in the us or at a US embassy,

claimed benefits of nationality from a foreign state,

convicted of treason against or advocating overthrow of the us,

apply to the applicant and people listed on the passport app

—after having acquired us citizenship—

Stanley Ann probably couldn’t show legal docs proving the 7-year-old 0’s us citizenship in the first place.

Parents couldn’t renounce their children’s us citizenship, and minors had to be quite older if they wanted to do it on their own.

[Fred Nerks]

Garbage, plain and simple. Here’s a link to the original research:

https://wtpotus.wordpress.com/tag/lia/

excerpt:

You haven’t heard of Lia? Neither had we. The unknown, until now, adopted sister of Barack Hussein Obama died unexpectedly February 26, 2010. The USA media didn’t cover the story of this woman nor was her name found until the last few days. A competent WTPOTUS sleuth, Leza, and other researchers uncovered an article about an adopted “kakak” (literally “older sibling”, often translated as “brother”) in Indonesia, named Lia or Lee. Following up on a tidbit of information and other clues, more information was uncovered. Lia was an adopted sister, not a brother. Two Indonesian obituaries were just found. These tell the final tale of this woman nicknamed Lia, whom Obama called “Mbak Nun”.

https://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/liaobamas-adopted-sister-died-suddenly/#more-4155

excerpt:

More information from the article said that Lia stayed at the home of Lolo Soetoro (Obama’s stepfather) and Ann Dunham Soetoro. If I understood the translation, one morning in 1966, Lia, age 7, ran away from home. She ended up at the house owned by Mrs. Siti Bogor. It happened that Mrs. Bogor was a maid who worked for Lolo Soetoro and Stanley Ann Dunham in Jakarta. At some point, Stanley Ann Dunham asked Mrs. Bogor if she could adopt Lia. The answer was yes.

She said she called Lolo and Ann, Mr. and Mrs Lolo Eny. In return, they called Lia ” Non” a nickname for Nona. She said, “I was always called Non, but Barry called me Ma’am Non.” When Lia lived with the Soetoros Maya hadn’t been born yet, and Barry was living with his grandmother in Hawaii.

After living with Lolo and Ann for awhile, “Eny” [Annie] promised to give her a sister who would keep her company. Ann told her, ” Stay well, I’ll pick up your brother Barry.” Two years later, Barry left Hawaii and went to Indonesia to live with Lolo, his mother, and Lia. Lia remembered that Obama was four years younger than she. She said that he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961. Lia stated that Barry Obama went to school and got a basic education in Jakarta...

[Fred Nerks]

SOME PREVIOUS POSTS ON THE SUBJECT OF LIA (WHO DIED SUDDENLY)

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/2306351/posts?page=12297#12297

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2566400/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2566400/posts?page=47#47

[Fred Nerks]

The above image of a group of children which first and as far as I can see, only appeared once on thefogbow blog and now no longer exists, appears to show the young LIA on Obama's right with a group of children of various ages. There's little doubt this image originated in Indonesia, and judging by the missing front teeth, zero would be about six years old.

This group is what may have given rise to the exaggeration that Lolo 'adopted a bunch of street kids' - but as there's no context nor identification with the image, which properties originally showed came from flickr, what you see could be a number of children including zero and Lia standing at the entrance of some kind of child-minding facility, or kindergarten.

[Bayou City]

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[Fred Nerks]

https://www.keywiki.org/Quentin_Young

Quentin D. Young is a Chicago based retired medical practicioner and prominent socialist activist. He has been a close personal friend an mentor to Barack Obama. Quentin Young was married to Ruth Young who died in 2007 and is the father of Ethan Young and Polly Young.

American Student Union - ASU

Quentin Young was listed as a member of the National Executive Committee of the ASU Elected at the Fourth Annual Convention - 1938, from the “High School” representatives. “Quentin Young, Hyde Park H. S., Chicago”. This source is found in the famous “Appendix IX” publication of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Seventy-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on “H.Res. 282”, “Committee Print, Appendix - Part IX, Communist Front Organizations with Special Reference to “The National Citizens Political Action Committee]] NCPAC, First Section, Second Section, and Third Section, Pages 261-1048, GPO, 1944, Item 30, American Student Union, Pages 514-523, Quentin Young on P. 523.

The NCPAC was cited by Congress as a Communist Party USA (CPUSA), political action front, and was featured in a number of very large and detailed volumes of Appendix IX, which were ordered destroyed by the Democrats in Congress because it showed that a significant number of Democrats were very active supporters of CPUSA fronts and causes during the 1930’s through 1944, when the investigations concluded. An unknown number of complete sets of Appendix IX were saved by at least one SCUA staffer, the late Ben Mandel, a former radical turned anti-communist. Keywiki.org has access to these volumes and its related Index of individuals.

Among other top ASU National Executive Committee members elected at the 1938 convention were the following, some of who remain controversial about their communist activities even till today.
Molly Yard - National Officer, Swarthmore, Chairman. Best known to the 60’s/70’s generations as a founder and leader of the National Organization of Women (NOW)
Joseph P. Lash - Executive Secretary, CCNY. Best known as a close friend and advisor to Eleanor Roosevelt including during the presidency of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In a book about him, he admitted his communist affiliations and essentially renounced them, but suspicions about his true political leanings have remained till today.
Bernie Firestone - Vice-Chairman, Un. of California, Berkeley, West. Is probably the same person who was a leftist labor leader in the 1960s onward.
Boone Schirmer - District Secretary, New England, Harvard. Long an identified key New England leader of the CPUSA, including having been identified by FBI undercover agent Herbert A. Philbrick in the HCUA Hearings on Communism in Massachusetts during the mid-1950’s. Schirmer later shows up in the Hanoi Lobby efforts against the US in Vietnam, as well as being a key member of a maoist-oriented communist front known as Friends of the Filipino People (FFP).

Many members of the ASU were not communists and severed ties later on as they found out about its true nature. The ASU will be discussed at their site on this Keywiki database.

YCL member

Quentin Young was a member of the Young Communist League USA in pre-WW2 Chicago - while attending Hyde Park High School.[1]

Quentin Young “fought fascism”, with his friend Bernice Weissbourd in the pre-War period[2].

https://www.keywiki.org/Bernice_Weissbourd

Bernice Targ Weissbourd is the widow of Bernard Weissbourd and the mother of Robert Weissbourd.

1930’s activism

In the 1930s, Bernice Weissbourd “fought fascism” with her friend Quentin Young, a member of the Young Communist League USA in the pre-War period[1].

Abraham Lincoln School

The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Sciences was a Chicago institution of the 1930’s and 1940’s, run by the Communist Party USA.

Faculty members were Morris Backall, Michael Baker, Frank Marshall Davis, Horace Davis, David Englestein, Morton Goldsholl, Pat Hoverder, Alfonso Iannelli, Leon Katzen, Ludwig Kruhe, Herschel Meyer, Henry Noyes, William L. Patterson, Fred Ptashne, Eleanore Redwin, Boris M. Revsine, Frank Sokolik, William Rose, Herman Schendel, Bernice Targ and Morris Topchevsky.

[Fred Nerks]

https://www.keywiki.org/Frank_Marshall_Davis

Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a journalist, poet and Communist Party USA activist in Chicago and Hawaii. In Hawaii he was a mentor to a young Barack Obama.

The FBI file on Davis, consisting of 601 pages and covering the years 1944-1963, means that Davis was under investigation or surveillance for at least 19 years. One document refers to Davis having Communist Party USA affiliations dating back to 1931. He was included in the FBI’s security index, meaning that he could be arrested or detained in the event of a national emergency.

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In early 1948 Davis served on the publicity committee of the Citizens’ Committee to Aid Packing-House Workers with Vernon Jarrett.

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Mentoring Obama

Frank Marshall Davis, 1980s
Frank Marshall Davis knew Barack Obama from as early as 9 or 10, until he left Hawaii for Occidental College in 1978 at the age of 18.

Some accounts say that Obama returned to Hawaii in 1971 . But British journalist Toby Harnden says that the Punahou School, the coeducational college preparatory day school in Honolulu that Obama attended from 1971 to 1979, was adamant that Obama took his entrance examine in autumn 1970. “It’s possible he briefly went back to Indonesia before actually starting at the school,” he said. But whether it was 1970 or 1971 ,Some accounts say that Obama returned to Hawaii in 1971 . This adds several years to the amount of time that Davis was exercising influence over Obama.

Barack Obama’s 1995 autobiography, Dreams from My Father, included several examples of Obama receiving advice from Frank Marshall Davis...

[Brown Deer]

Barack Obama Member of Radical Socialist Group “New Party” in 90’s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEk04UPhRgo

06/08/2012

“Radical-in-Chief” author Stanley Kurtz on documents showing Obama was once a member of the socialist “New Party”, a political wing of ACORN.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/06/obamas-third-party-history-stanley-kurtz/

[Fred Nerks]

from your link:

...In the meantime, let us see whether a press that let candidate Obama off the hook in 2008 — and that in 2012 is obsessed with the president’s youthful love letters — will now refuse to report that President Obama once joined a leftist third party, and that he hid that truth from the American people in order to win the presidency.

sadly, we know the answer to that...

[Brown Deer]

let us see whether a press that let candidate Obama off the hook in 2008

He got his interview on FOX Business News, and as he stated, 0bama and his White House claimed that he was never a member of the New Party, so the #fakenews MSM never did their job of reporting the facts and just ignored it.

[Fred Nerks]

These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

This infographic created by Jason at Frugal Dad shows that almost all media comes from the same six sources.

That’s consolidated from 50 companies back in 1983.

NOTE: This infographic is from last year and is missing some key transactions. GE does not own NBC (or Comcast or any media) anymore. So that 6th company is now Comcast. And Time Warner doesn’t own AOL, so Huffington Post isn’t affiliated with them.

But the fact that a few companies own everything demonstrates “the illusion of choice,” Frugal Dad says. While some big sites, like Digg and Reddit aren’t owned by any of the corporations, Time Warner owns news sites read by millions of Americans every year.

Here’s the graphic:

https://static.businessinsider.com/image/4fd9ee1e6bb3f7af5700000a/image.jpg

Read more at https://www.businessinsider.com.au/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6#3b2UWL2H2RbI6tEv.99

[Fred Nerks]

[Bayou City]

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[Fred Nerks]

Further information, following on from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278969/posts?page=1266#1266

FROM THE ARCHIVES:

Tracing Obama Snr’s steps as a student at Maseno School

Published on 04/11/2008

By John Oywa

The old pieces of paper lie inside a small safe at the Maseno National School’s administration block. Tucked away at a corner in the principal’s office, the safe is one of the school’s most precious assets.
It holds the school’s celebrated history and sensitive information on former teachers and students.

It is here that the academic secrets of a Kenyan economist, the late Barack Obama Snr, are kept.
The Maseno School in Nyanza Province where Obama Snr enrolled for his studies

The late Obama is the father of the man touted to become America’s first black President, Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
Maseno School’s senior teacher in-charge of archives, Mr Mangla Okanda, only speaks about the records contained within with the permission of the principal, Mr Paul Otula.

Old records

“The records here date back to 1906, when the school was founded. We have records of all the students who have passed through this school,” says Okanda.
Several prominent Kenyans, including the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and Ramogi Achieng’ Oneko, have their records here.

“The head teachers that time were very mean with information. They condensed a student’s four-year record in a small piece of paper,” says Okanda.

Inside the safe is a small cabinet with drawers that contain the documents.

Okanda removes a brown card from one of them. “This one belonged to Barack Obama Sr. He joined the school in 1950 and left in 1953,” he explains.

Obama Sr — Index No 3422 — joined the school with his elder brother, Joseph, who left in 1951 for unexplained reasons.

Obama Snr, the father to Illinois Senator Barack Obama

Obama Sr is said to have come from Alego-Ng’iya in Central Nyanza. His age was not indicated. The head teacher then was BL Bowers, who served longest at the school, from 1951 to 1969.
Records describe Obama Sr as an intelligent student and show that he was promoted from Class B to A.

“This is an indication that he was a brilliant boy, since Class A was reserved for the very bright students,” says Okanda.

In a neat handwriting, Bowers described Obama Sr as “very keen, steady, trustworthy and friendly. Concentrates, reliable and out-going”.Okanda says Obama Sr was a member of the Willis House, the first student hostel to be built at the school.

Otula says students admitted to Maseno were exclusively Christians, since the Anglican Church of Kenya ran the school.

Strict teachers
The teachers were very strict. Students were thoroughly vetted before being enrolled.
The students were taught sciences, art and technical subjects, including carpentry and tailoring.

Otula says Obama Sr went straight to the US from Maseno, to start his academic tour. He later married an American woman, the mother of Senator Obama.

The classroom in which he studied, an E-shaped brick house built by the Scots, is still intact and currently hosting the school’s Form Four students.
The 10 pioneer hostels built in 1906 are still standing. Old boys have thwarted attempts by successive administrators to demolish and replace them with modern dormitories.

“The old boys have rejected moves to bring down the houses. It reminds them of the good old days. They would rather have them renovated than demolished,” says one of the school’s deputy principals, Mr Duncan Owiye.

Students of the Willis House were unaware Obama Sr was once a resident.

One other landmark in the school that has withstood the test of time is the bell. Now rusty but still in use, the bell has served the school for over a century.
It hangs on an equally ageing ‘Oseno’ tree, from which Maseno borrowed its name.
“The bell is a sacred feature in the school. No-one has ever tried to damage it,” says Owiye.

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Thus, although the practice of using several names for many of the family members, (Roy, Abongo, Malik) confuses the position of names on the family tree, it seems to be apparent that the student to whom the teacher refers had been given the anglicised name of Joseph for the Arabic Yussuf. This Joseph/Yussuf, the elder brother who left the school ‘for unexplained reasons’ is never seen nor heard of again in the Onyango Obama story.
However, there is a Yussuf shown as being the son of Onyango and the woman we know as ‘granny’ Sarah, with a birth year of 1950.
If that’s the same Yussuf, his birth year should be two years less than that claimed by Barack Hussein, which varies between 1934 and 1936 on his documentation.