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]

From the article:

“...According to the Kenya Citzenship and Immigration Act, a person born outside Kenya shall be a citizen by birth if on the date of birth that person’s mother or father was or is a citizen by birth. ...”

In 1961, Kenya was a colony of Britain.

O Sr had British citizenship so any children born to him while Kenya was a British colony would be British.

[GregNH]

I posted a few comments in this post several years ago. Half way through this particular post is the part about Zippo and his British Citizenship.

Natural Born Presidents Part2

Feel free to read all the comments in that post.

[bgill]

Surely, with him eating out all the time, he’s bound to have left a used napkin laying around so why has no one tested something for his DNA? Of course, you’d have to also get one of the African half-siblings and snag an empty beer can from one of the Davis kin.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Which is why so many of his childhood photos were called into question as they were designed to establish a false narrative. The same manipulators who are smart enough to pen a book full of false hoods is smart enough to photo shop and airbrush or tamper with photos. Stalin did it, so can they.

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0geJaLKe_FcaZcAaQFXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByMHVzM20zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMzBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw—?p=trump+queen&fr=aaplw

[Brown Deer]

et tu Kamala?

[GregNH]

Exactly. Every election cycle since Zippo we have seen ineligible candidates and we will continue to until there is a definitive ruling on the term of art natural born Citizen

[Fred Nerks]

Which is why so many of his childhood photos were called into question as they were designed to establish a false narrative...

Example One

Here we see the boy in front of a house in Indonesia

here, in the garden, with a baby presumed to be Maya

perched on the arm of a chair, beside Stanley Ann. There is no back to the chair visible, he is sitting on the armrest, his hand on her arm leaves no impression, arm seems a little long...her hair on her left appears as if it has been 'adjusted' to suit the composition. There appears to be an armrest on her right hand side..so that it is a chair they are sitting in, not a couch.

The baby has a malformed arm...

The final happy family image, supplied by the Obama Campaign. Stanley Ann has a claw for a hand, the armrest the boy was sitting on in a previous image appears to have been painted in, it's the wrong angle. The man we are expected to believe is Lolo - may not be. The scene could be a composite of at least three different images.

At another time at what appears to be a Christmas scene, Stanley Ann is shown with a man who would appear to be the same man as in 'the family on the couch'

followed by an image of Stanley Ann still wearing the same blouse, being lovingly held from behind by what appears to be a younger man.

[Fred Nerks]

The many faces of Lolo:

The black and white photocopy images are from his Immigration File. Did he have a moustache and wear glasses?

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Some of those do seem convincingly fake. Especially that one on the settee. The horizontal penciled line on the wall was the artist’s attempt to pull the 3 images together. Lolo’s settee frame arm is straight. Bari’s settee arm is severally bowed. And poor Lolo has several layers impressed onto of the original figure. That person may was not wearing those pants because there’s a huge gap between the pants and the intersection of the torso.

We must wonder at what age the boy;s ears ‘popped-out?’ They seem rather normal and pinned to his head in these photos where he’s perhaps 10-11 years old.

When he campaigned his dumbo ears were way out to the sides of his head. He even joked about his funny big ears a few times. I hadn’t realized ears grew out that way.

But Not to worry. It seems with a little nip ‘n tuck, lately his ears are back to ‘Indonesian size’ once again.

[Fred Nerks]

You’ve got good eyes.

[Fred Nerks]

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/malcolmx-timeline-malcolm-xs-life/

1955
Malcolm X attends the first Conference of the Non-aligned Nations in Bandung, Indonesia.

http://www.spunk.org/texts/pubs/lr/sp001716/bandung.html

The Lessons of the Bandung Conference

Reviewing Richard Wright’s The Color Curtain 40 Years Later

by Matthew Quest

“The despised, the insulted, the hurt, the dispossessed—in short, the underdogs of the human race were meeting. Here were class and racial and religious consciousness on a global scale. Who had thought of organizing such a meeting? And what had these nations in common? Nothing, it seemed to me, but what their past relationship to the Western world had made them feel. This meeting of the rejected was in itself a kind of judgment upon the Western world!”

—Richard Wright

[Fred Nerks]

Malcom X Conference Asia-Africa

In Indonesian: Malcolm X (16): Tentang Konferensi Asia Afrika, Pesan untuk Akar Rumput (1)

“Dari hasil konferensi Bandung, itu benar-benar menyajikan sebagai contoh untuk prosedur yang sama yang dapat anda gunakan untuk menyelesaikan masalah-masalah kita (Negro Amerika Serikat).”

Malcolm X

Presiden Soekarno ketika membuka Konferensi Asia Afrika di Bandung, pada 18 April 1955.

Translated short exerpt:

"From the results of the Bandung conference, it really presents as an example for the same procedure that you can use to solve our problems (United States Negro)."

[Fred Nerks]

[Fred Nerks]

Were his legs shortened at the knees, and her legs chopped off, top make them appear as if they were together? Does the striped pattern of his shirt show through her fingers?