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.

[Velveeta]

She couldn’t have been 16 years old the summer of 1960.

Why is everything such a mystery with these folks? (rhetorical)

[Fred Nerks]

LOL! That’s why I posted the date of birth. Looks like Billy (the terrorist) Ayres slipped up on his research...

[Jedidah]

Time to start looking at the Malcolm X timeline again. I think he was based out of Chicago in 1960.

[Fred Nerks]

I’m perverse, I’m thinking he should be found ineligible on the basis of a forged birth certificate...or better still, on the basis that his ‘father’ was a Kenyan and not a citizen of the United States. Better he’s ‘hung’ on a book full of lies.

Too many have bought the fairy tale of the ‘black prince’ -here’s what he really was:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839291,00.html

exerpt:

Malcolm X had been a pimp, a cocaine addict and a thief. He was an unashamed demagogue. His gospel was hatred: “Your little babies will get polio!” he cried to the “white devils.” His creed was violence: “If ballots won’t work, bullets will.”

Yet even before his bullet-ripped body went to its grave, Malcolm X was being sanctified. Negro leaders called him “brilliant,” said he had recently “moderated” his views, blamed his assassination on “the white power structure” or, in the case of Martin Luther King, on a “society sick enough to express dissent with murder.” Malcolm’s death, they agreed, was a setback to the civil rights movement.

Alias John Doe. In fact, Malcolm X —in life and in death—was a disaster to the civil rights movement.

[azishot]

Isn’t THIS an interesting tidbit of news? I do believe I read this on another thread but didn’t pay much attention to it.

Fact or more fiction added to the fairytale of BO’s and his family’s life?

[thouworm]

I did not remember the December part, but I was just going to post that date December 1959 was the USA release date for Black Orpheus so...she had to have been in Chicago in 1960.

Through whom did she get to Chicago? friends of parents? or as FRED NERKS suggested, her uncle was there, so perhaps friends of his? do we have any proof that she applied to & was accepted at U of C?

[Jedidah]

In full agreement here as to the character of MX.

And the assassination just made the thug into a martyr, which is, in my opinion, just one more reason to pray for the safety of 0 and try to remove him by peaceful and lawful means.

Still, the resemblance and the timing is compelling. What if 0’s father on the sealed BC was “Little” prior to the adoption?

[Velveeta]

Gotcha. Takes me a minute. LOL

[Fred Nerks]

And the assassination just made the thug into a martyr, which is, in my opinion, just one more reason to pray for the safety of 0 and try to remove him by peaceful and lawful means.

I totally agree.

What if 0’s father on the sealed BC was “Little” prior to the adoption?

somehow...I doubt that very much. If we are on the right track, the father's name would NOT be on an actual, genuine, birth certificate...issued at the time of birth.

[LucyT]

Pinging again; check out the comments from #296 all the way to the end of the thread.

Rhetorical Questions.

Does this makes the case for Malcolm X much stronger?

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The St. Lawrence Seaway (French: la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent) is the common name for a system of canals that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the North American Great Lakes, as far as Lake Superior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_Seaway

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When Stanley Ann Dunham discovered she was pregnant, did she board a Black Star Line Ship that sailed through the St. Lawrence Seaway, then crossed the Atlantic? Did she stay with the expat community in Ghana?

Remember her friend said Ann sent her a postcard from a ship... and then quickly changed her tune.

Was baby Barry born in Ghana?

.... just askin'...

[BP2]

Hmmm. Good analysis and questions posed here:

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/09/did-stanley-ann-dunham-really-work-as.html

Did Stanley Ann Dunham really work as an "au pair" in Chicago - and if so, then when and who for, and why... And how?

• In Barack’s book, he wrote that his mom was an au pair in Chicago at age 16; [page 123].

• Why Chicago? How did the Kansas-Washington-Hawaii chick wind up there of all places?!

• What and who was her connection to Chicago, and who got her the gig?

well... er, um ... Frank Marshall Davis was from Chicago, and so was Frank's Caucasian wife - who came from an aristocratic Chicago family.

• Did Marshall’s wife get her the gig?

• Was it with the Ayers family - another aristocratic Chicago family?

According to the age Barack claimed Stanley Ann recalled she was at the time, it would have been 1958.

But:

Barack wrote that his mother told him she saw the great movie Black Orpheus while in Chicago working as an au pair for a summer.

One problem: the great film Black Orpheus wasn't made until 1959!

It was actually released in the USA in the winter of 1959,

So if she really saw the movie in the summer in Chicago - (I don't think she'd confuse a summer in Chicago with a winter in Chicago! Plus she'd have been in school in Hawaii except in the summer!) -

and since I think Barack is accurately recounting his mother's story (that she saw Black Orpheus in summer in Chicago - the summer she was an au pair)...

Then it means Stanley Ann Dunham was in Chicago in June-July-August 1960 and that's the summer before Barack was born.

She was 17.

Billy Ayers would have been 13.

• Can anyone find out if Davis’s wife's family knew the Ayers family? (it's likely since both families were upper crust Chicago.)

• Did Mr. and Mrs. Davis send Stanley Ann to Chicago to commune with their Communist comrades there as part of her "awakening"?

• Perhaps there was actually no au pair job at all, perhaps it was cover story?

• Was Stanley Ann indoctrinated that summer by people like Vernon Jarrett - Valerie’s father? And/or the Ayers?

• Was the Ayers family a financial backer of the Chicago defender - the left-wing black newspaper that Davis and Jarrett both worked at?

• Did the Ayers family back the South Side Community Art Center?

Can anyone fill in the blanks?

[LucyT]

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One more question; should I ping the site pests?

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[Fred Nerks]

Can anyone fill in the blanks?

Here's one little blank filled in...Charles T Payne, Madelyn's brother, has been described as 'The Deputy Director of The Library at the University of Chicago'.

HE LIVED IN HYDE PARK.

Uncle Charles was at the U Of CH from 1960 until his retirement in 1995.

[Fred Nerks]

NO NO NO NO NO!

[maggief]

Toots’ brother, Charles Payne, Assistant Director of the U of C Library.

[Fred Nerks]

Good old Uncle Charles.

Obama relative recalls World War II horror (Madelyn Dunham's brother)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 5-8-09 | John McCormick

Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 4:05:02 PM by STARWISE

link

Lots of family images blech

[LucyT]

It (the movie) was actually released in the USA in the winter of 1959

The nude photos were taken around Christmas time.

[Jet Jaguar]

Good work.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

One more question; should I ping the site pests?

Do we pay them overtime for working after hours? It really sucks when you stop and think that we are paying those trolls and posers employed through the DOJ.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2278969/posts?page=300#300

“Black Orpheus” opened 12/1959.

I just checked the Chicago Tribune archives and while I don’t pay for articles, a search for “Black Orpheus” for the summer months of 1960, does come up with hits.

I think movies certainly did hang around in theaters for a much longer run time back then.

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