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]

Example Family Tree:

[Fred Nerks]

Although hard to read, when this article was written in 1959, the author relates although Obama, who has been away from Kenya for seven years...'

[Fred Nerks]

'My Life with Obama Senior'

"He asked to dance with me during a party and I couldn't turn him down. He picked me out of several girls that were there. A few days later, I married him ... He paid 14 cows as dowry for me, which were delivered in two batches. That was because he loved me so greatly."

-- Grace Keziah Obama, First Wife of Barack Obama Sr.

Source link

In 1964, during the famous airlifts organized by late Planning Minister Tom Mboya, Obama Senior left for the United States for further studies. "I remember escorting him to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, then known as Embakasi airport," she says. "He asked me to take care of our then only child, Malik Abongo, who was six years old. I was pregnant with our second - Rita Auma."

[Fred Nerks]

Kezia and the author of that article above make some statements that leave one wondering...yes, if the Kenyan had left for Hawaii in 1964, Malik/Roy/Abomgo would have been six years of age, if born in 1958...but 1964 was the year of return to Kenya.

There's no doubt when the Kenyan student arrived in Hawaii, but what appears to be in doubt is his birth year, variously given as 1934 and 1936, which raises the question, was he the elder or the younger brother at the school in Maseno, and just what happened to the student the teacher named Joseph?

Btw, the Kenyan student insisted in the pronunciation of his name being Bearick which indicates that his name was also anglicized at Maseno to Berwick.

[Fred Nerks]

Image and possible identification as posted #1266 CLICK LINK

BELOW:

Image and identification as sourced from book written by Auma Obama

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As a family group, the two adult males are probably the brothers Joseph/Yussuf - Berwick/Barack who attended the school at Maseno. In 1964, on return to Kenya, Abongo-Roy-Malik would have been six years old if born in 1958...or eight, if that's Malik with his father in 1966 when Mark was a toddler, here held by his mother.

It's a work in progress...

[LucyT]

Begin at # 1,328 and read to end of page.

Thanks, Fred Nerks.

[David]

Your #1344 quotes the U of Hawaii that Senior attended there from Fall 1959 to Spring 1962; but says he received the degree of BA in Economics in Spring 1962.

To be a legitimate PhD candidate at Harvard, he also needed a MA degree. Further, in his letter to Tom Myboya, he tells him that he has added a MA to his BA all in the three academic years—so how did he do all that? And Where?

[Fred Nerks]

Hoover Archivist Musings

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

...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.

NOTE THE DATE MAY 29, 1962.

[Fred Nerks]

29TH MAY 1962

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One paragraph seems to be missing, the final paragraph with the handwritten notation ask Odiawo to see me appears to be an afterthought or later addition.

[Fred Nerks]

LETTERS. LINK

An archivist found a trove of Barack Obama Sr.’s letters and documents at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City a few years ago.

[Fred Nerks]

One of eight pdf documents/letters from the archive:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/18/us/financial-aid-obamas-father.html?module=Promotron&region=Body&action=click&pgtype=article

Application to African-American Inst. May, 25, 1959

...indicates he entered a birthdate of June 18, 1934, was married to Kesia Aoko and had one child, was unable to complete high school due to father’s illness, unable to pay for tuition.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Senior did not earn a PhD from Harvard and it is unclear whether he ever attended a single class there.

So how does an African high school dropout complete an undergraduate degree and a Masters degree in three years?... There’s only two ways:

1. Obama Senior lied or

2. The letter to Mboya is a latent fabrication in the same vein as false transcripts and old newspaper articles about BHO related characters that float the web. The supporting archives to verify authenticity of such documents is nonexistent.

[David]

First time I have seen that. It is dated May of 59 after he has been accepted and is planning to attend U of Hawaii. It gives you a date which appears to have been corrected for his departure from Maseno.

It gives you January 51 for a start date which one might reconcile as a late fall 50; but the departure date is an overstrike of 53 and you can’t really tell what the underlying original date was.

He then gives you a second secondary education reference which is xxxed out.

You have long speculated that he had some education beyond Maseno but if true, he had a real incentive to emphasize it.

There remains sufficient confusion in this record that your original speculation that in fact, Senior was the older brother who was kicked out of Maseno may be correct.

The inconsistencies in the time line simply make it clear that the fix was in on Senior’s record.

Participation of the educators at Maseno simply indicates that they were participants in the fix—by the time people were looking at these records, some real investment had been made in an effort to clean up all of Barry’s records and those of his father and of his relationship with the Dunhams and Stanley Ann.

You should also recall that in the immigration file and elsewhere, there re copies of reports from faculty and staff at Harvard which support his attendance there as a PhD candidate having participated in taking exams etc.—they were review these records precatory to kicking him out.

Observe, Barry is born in August of 61 which I continue to think is an accurate date. Senior doesn’t get into Harvard until fall 62.

I have difficulty with the proposition that someone is thinking about Barry who is then a year old as a future Liberal political leader but people think like that so assume for the purposes of analysis that was part of the process.

So then further, speculate that by spring of 62, some thought was being given to cleaning up the record of Barry’s purported father.

The Hawaii confirmation is of a BA only; in that era at least, you don’t get into a PhD graduate program at a top university with a BA unless some form of fix is involved in the process.

Another possible explanation is that Senior was viewed as a potential Liberal-Socialist political leader in Africa who was being promoted for ends related to his own future role.

But on the face of the record as you have it here, there isn’t any way to reconcile it other than to understand that the fix was in to get Senior some credibility as an academic at a major US university.

[Zeneta]

I did appreciate Glenn Beck back when he was on Fox. He spoke of these things.

Yes, absolutely!

And he did it an entertaining, classroom teacher sort of way. That was good because it kept those folks with short attention spans interested long enough to potentially learn something.

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These things, virtually ALL things, become interesting when you actually learn something along the way.

Teaching, actual teaching the why and the context of what and why, seems to have become a lost art.

It occurs everywhere and it’s why I find most of what is called news or even entertainment worthless and boring.

The Left has no interest in teaching and are dead set against people actually learning. Their goal is to have their “Tribe” maintain some superficial, constantly changing narrative which can advance outrage and victimhood.

It’s like Vodka in the USSR, A Brave New World, Awake.

Awake

Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day’s divinity

First thing you see.

A vast radiant beach in a cool jeweled moon
Couples naked race down by it’s quiet side

And we laugh like soft, mad children
Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy

The music and voices are all around us.

Choose they croon the Ancient Ones
The time has come again
Choose now, they croon
Beneath the moon
Beside an ancient lake
Enter again the sweet forest
Enter the hot dream
Come with us

Everything is broken up and dances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agtparb19a0

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

On this one note.. “You should also recall that in the immigration file and elsewhere, there re copies of reports from faculty and staff at Harvard which support his attendance there as a PhD candidate having participated in taking exams etc.—they were review these records precatory to kicking him out.”

I have long assumed, perhaps wrongly, that there is zero evidence Senior ever attended Harvard. In 2007, nothing directly from Harvard confirmed his existence as a student at their institution. Was there confirmation of an address for him in Cambridge or Boston?

The two Africans vouching as ‘fellow classmates and bar-mates’ for Senior at Harvard were at the wrong place at the wrong time. They attended Columbia- another Ivy which is about 4 hours from Harvard. And they were there a few years after BHO had already returned to Kenya.

Over time, long delayed FOIA requests have resulted in anecdotal evidence that every one here digests at face value. That fact that the FOIA responses were delayed by years and some unrelated records appear to display the same handwriting makes them suspect.

Like the transcripts: some is real, some is an alteration and some is completely fabricated from the whole cloth.

[Fred Nerks]

“He then gives you a second secondary education reference which is xxxed out.”

Beneath those cross-outs I think I can see January 1954 to December 1954, which makes no sense.

The address given in the ‘secondary education’ line that has been crossed out appears to show the word KAMPALA.

Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda.

Which brings to mind the FOX radio interview of Malik Obama by Eric Bolling, during which Malik, in a heated exchange with Eric, stated that he grew up with Barack Obama, they were ‘boys on the block together’ and Barack taught school in UGANDA.

The original interview was stated to have been 48 minutes duration. Last I heard, it was down to a meaningless few minutes. Now, today, the Eric Bolling/Malik exchange has been totally removed and the discussion focuses only on the question raised about the bona-fides of the foundation established by Malik.

Eric Bolling states he spoke to Malik for 12 minutes:

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/eric-bolling-goes-after-barack-obamas-half-brother-in-kenya/

[David]

To your #1356:

You also recall that in fact, Roman taught in Uganda where I believe he and his mother had connections.

This is just another effort to meld the two histories into one person.

[David]

To your 1355:

I have long assumed, perhaps wrongly, that there is zero evidence Senior ever attended Harvard. In 2007, nothing directly from Harvard confirmed his existence as a student at their institution. Was there confirmation of an address for him in Cambridge or Boston?

The two Africans vouching as ‘fellow classmates and bar-mates’ for Senior at Harvard were at the wrong place at the wrong time. They attended Columbia- another Ivy which is about 4 hours from Harvard. And they were there a few years after BHO had already returned to Kenya.

Over time, long delayed FOIA requests have resulted in anecdotal evidence that every one here digests at face value. That fact that the FOIA responses were delayed by years and some unrelated records appear to display the same handwriting makes them suspect.

Like the transcripts: some is real, some is an alteration and some is completely fabricated from the whole cloth.

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Fred has beaten me up on this line fairly often—obviously the historic records of U of Hawaii are fake in a number of respects. As we went through with Jerry, his U of W “transcripts” were also fake.

However I believe Fred and I have a pretty complete record of the Harvard review when they were getting prepared to kick Senior out. There is a fairly reliable history.

Further, if you look at the divorce litigation file, you will find the address where he was served.

In addition, as you may know, he has some record of having visited Stanley who had custody of both his son and Barry at a house owned by Barry’s father’s sister in Boston.

[Fred Nerks]

You also recall that in fact, Roman taught in Uganda where I believe he and his mother had connections.

Considering it could not have been the father of Malik to whom he was referring when Malik said to Bolling we were boys on the block together IF there was a Barack Obama who taught school in Uganda who wasn't the father of Malik, one has to assume there was another Barack Obama.

We are still looking for the child born in January 1961. The child the Kenyan student Barack Hussein Obama told his associates he visited whilst he was at Harvard.

But we are getting ahead of ourselves, methinks. The devil is in the details...which may reveal themselves.

Here's a facebook record of the Bolling/Malik radio interview, down to a few seconds. I guess all that does is prove the interview existed.

BOLLING FACEBOOK

(Btw, the Roman Obama connection we are aware of is Equatorial Guinea and the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. Which doesn't mean 'Roman' didn't have a spell teaching school in Uganda, before he went to Moscow.)

[LucyT]

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PING

See comment # 1,358. To catch up again, begin reading at # 1,351.

Thanks, y'all.