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]

David wrote:

“...As to your 1432 and some years earlier about Julianna, Fred has obviously slept in but there is a great picture of the 1959-60 Hawaii group including Julianna where she looks to be about 20—no way she was born in 56; no way she was only 56 when she died. ...”

She wasn’t 56 when she died; Roman said in 2016 that she was born in 1963, and had she lived till 2016, she would have been 53:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1052892214758357&id=100001127646249

She wasn’t even alive in 1961 !!!

There is no way she can be the lady in the ‘59-’60 group in Hawaii !!!

Or the lady in the 1960-61 Seattle Polk directory !!!

[LucyT]

Here’s a link to one of ubummer’s fake birth certificates. How many has he submitted? I’ve lost count.:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf

[Fred Nerks]

[WildHighlander57]

Two more items:

Roman’s mom died in 2012, when Valerie Sarruf was still alive.

Who are the boys with Simeon and Ruth in items #20 thru #25 here:

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

[Fred Nerks]

Roman’s mom died in 2012, when Valerie Sarruf was still alive.

What an astonishing observation! One of them is living, the other died, one had a child in January, the other in late summer. One had Diplomat relatives in Equatorial Guinea, the other had Lebanese nationality and relatives in Seattle. Do you which is which?

Who are the boys with Simeon and Ruth in items #20 thru #25 here:

#187

I suggest you ask Mark. He lives in China now, but spent most of his childhood in the US, according to himself. He went to college with the son of the babysitter...he would only lie to you if he had something to hide...

I now politely suggest you read through an entire thread before you jump in and make yourself sound like a troll. Considering it was you yourself who supplied all the facebook images for MY ONE AND ONLY MOTHER...you are not making any sense imo.

[WildHighlander57]

“”Roman’s mom died in 2012, when Valerie Sarruf was still alive.”

What an astonishing observation! One of them is living, the other died, one had a child in January, the other in late summer. One had Diplomat relatives in Equatorial Guinea, the other had Lebanese nationality and relatives in Seattle. Do you which is which?”

Ok as to which is which:

Another lady had also passed away when Valerie Sarruf was still alive.

This lady of whom I speak is the lady in the Oxford picture with Mal X and Mr. Abrams, seen in the background speaking with a black gentleman.

She is deceased, and Valerie is still alive; no way they are the same person.

[WildHighlander57]

And the lady in the Oxford picture with Mal X and Mr. Abrams, seen in the background speaking with a black gentleman, was researched by the black gentleman.

He independently found out who she was, and she was —not— an aspiring actress; she was an Oxford school newspaper reporter covering the event that Mal attended.

[Brown Deer]

In 2000, at the dawn of the new millennium, Joseph Owili Ongei bought a green Chevrolet LUV KB20 model, chasis number 9583320.

What he did not know, however, was that he had become the new owner of the car that claimed the life of Barack Obama Sr, the father of US President Barack Obama.

“It was one of the many cars put up for disposal by the Treasury,” he says, “And the only reason I got it was that it had been left behind by purchasers. All the others in the yard had been bought except the green pick-up.”

Owili, who then worked for Ministry of Planning as a technician, says he paid Sh175,000 to Jael Atieno Onyango. Owili, who had previous knowledge of Jael before buying the car, says the latter met Obama Snr in the early 1980s at the Treasury, where she, too, worked.

Ownership records showed the car last belonged to Dr Barack H Obama, who bought it from General Motors in 1981.

Obama had been working for the Ministry of Finance when he bought the car, in a scheme that apparently saw senior officials at the ministry identify cars and have them bought by the ministry, after which the individual employees would have their salaries deducted monthly to recover the cash.

Obama Snr died on November 24, 1982 before he could settle the loan. After the fatal accident, the car was towed to the Ministry of Finance’s junk yard.

History mentions Jael Atieno as the mother of George Hussein Onyango, one of President Barack Obama’s half-brothers. In the President Obama’s Dreams From My Father, his half-sister Auma tells him how she had given up on her father, but told him to be a good father to her new born half brother George, whose mother was ‘a young woman he was living with.’

The young woman referred to here is Jael. Since she was the last to have been living with Obama Snr, she was listed as the next of kin to the deceased and ended up inheriting rights to the car and many other properties he left behind.

[gathersnomoss]

DJT is an American.
WTF was BHO? Oh, that’s right. As you can see, he too is an American. Move along...

[LucyT]

Check out 1,449 for photo and new info.

Thanks to Norman Knight and Brown Deer

[Brown Deer]

As you can see, he too is an American.

Born 18 June 1934 - Kanyadhiang Village, Rachuonyo, Nyanza, Kenya
Deceased 26 November 1982 - Nairobi, Kenya, aged 48 years old
Buried - Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya

Move along...

[Brown Deer]

The Kaloleni Public bar...where Barack Obama Sr. was drinking the night he died. His nickname was Double Double, (double shots whiskey).

nice place ;-)

The pub that played a part in Kenya's and Obama's history

The stale smell of last night's beer hangs in the Kaloleni Public Bar, a down-at-heel tin-roofed tavern sandwiched between a butchery and a panel beater in Nairobi's Eastlands.

In its heyday the insalubrious boozer was a favourite of Kenya's founding politicians and President Barack Obama's father, Barack Obama Senior. It was here that he had his last drink of whisky on November 24, 1982.

Afterwards, he left in his pickup truck, crashed into a tree and died, aged 46.

The proprietor, George Anyim, is a 44-year-old barrel of a man with a cannonball head and a greying goatee beard. He is the third generation of Anyim to run the pub having inherited it, and its stories, in 2003.

"The elite used to drink here, those who had gone abroad to read," said Anyim. In recent decades the pub, like the neighbourhood, has faced "challenges", he said. The neighbourhood has suffered neglect and competition has increased from other pubs including, close by, 'Rescue Bar' and another called 'Nameless'.

"It's not the glory days that it used to be," said Anyim. "The big people are gone."



It has been brought to my attention that this coming Saturday all roads will be leading to kaloleni public bar for a goat eating, for entry you are strictly required to come with your stomach and the first ten will have the pleasure of drinking hot soup mixed with kaloleni public bar chilli. Oye Oye come one come all.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

I bet there’s still DNA clinging to that ole beater and someone should collect it.

Enquiring Minds want to know....

Whose ya Daddy?

[Brown Deer]

speaking of Double Double…

https://cis.org/Feere/Will-Uncle-Omar-Face-Deportation-or-Must-He-First-Kill-Someone-While-Driving-Drunk

By Jon Feere on August 29, 2011

President Obama’s long-lost Uncle Omar was picked up by law enforcement on August 24 while driving drunk in Massachusetts. His blood alcohol level was reportedly nearly twice the state’s legal limit. He was charged with driving under the influence, driving to endanger, and failure to use a turn signal. He was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on an outstanding warrant – Uncle Omar was previously ordered deported to Kenya, but decided to stay in the U.S. anyhow, likely concluding that the United States doesn’t take its own citizenship laws seriously. After all, his sister, Obama’s “Aunti Zeituni”, had also been ordered deported but was living as an illegal immigrant in Boston for years, in public housing no less.

Perhaps the media will start investigating and also inquire about the risk to public safety created by President Obama’s decision to keep drunk-driving illegal aliens like Uncle Omar in the country.

[Brown Deer]

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Seattle?

Looks like Barry and lots of thin handsome boys.

[Brown Deer]

Hillary singing in Amsterdam back in 1993... ;-)

http://www.bestrockphotos.com/7%20Year%20Bitch/index.html