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Obama, the African Colonial
American Thinker ^ | June 25, 2009 | L.E. Ikenga

Posted on 06/24/2009 10:54:57 PM PDT by 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.


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To: Fred Nerks

Maybe jveritas could help you. He reads Arabic very well if that is what that is.


481 posted on 02/04/2010 9:00:41 PM PST by Albertafriend
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To: Albertafriend; jveritas

excellent sugestion, thanks.

jveritas, if the writing at #480 is arabic, could you please translate?


482 posted on 02/04/2010 9:21:57 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks

The writing is either Urdu or Farsi.


483 posted on 02/05/2010 5:03:32 AM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: jveritas

thank you, I thought it might be...but the dates are easily discernible, I had no idea Stanley Ann spent so many years in Pakistan, if that report is accurate.


484 posted on 02/05/2010 1:28:34 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks
Leo Donofrio has taken his site down, but from another site, here is the vital record index for the Dunham-Obama marriage that HI released. Amateur investigators had actually demanded all records for BHO II, but inadvertently got BHO Sr's vital record index for his marriage to Stanley Ann Dunham.

My understanding is that vital record indexes only exist for marriage events recorded, not for licenses issued. The actual details of the record, including the image, date and location of the marriage are still protected from release to the general public under privacy law for something like 75 years, if I remember correctly. http://starmaker.today.com/2009/10/02/hawaiian-officials-playing-more-hide-and-seek-games-about-obamas-vital-records/

BIRTH INDEX
OFFICE OF HEALTH STATUS MONITORINGCHILD
OBAMA II, BARACK HUSSEIN
GENDER
M

MARRIAGE INDEX
SORTED BY BRIDE
OFFICE OF HEALTH STATUS MONITORING

GROOM
OBAMA, BARACK HUSSEIN

BRIDE
DUNHAN, STANLEY ANN

485 posted on 02/05/2010 8:45:17 PM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

Thanks, but I am so skeptical of anything that comes out of Hawaii, particularly after Okubo has already been caught lying, as shown in the link you provided, that the information the two names are on a vital record-marriage index doesn’t prove anything to me.

There’s nothing there that indicates they were married to each other. There is no date of marriage.

GROOM
OBAMA, BARACK HUSSEIN - could be a record of when he married ANNA, the woman he brought to Hawaii with him.

BRIDE
DUNHAN, STANLEY ANN - could be when Stanley Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro.


486 posted on 02/05/2010 9:13:45 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks
"THERE'S A BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ON THE MARRIAGE INDEX.

"-that probably relates to when he married the young woman he brought to Hawaii with him. She's shown standing next to him on arrival, and because he has his arm around her and she around him, they loaded the image up with lei to cover their closeness:"

The lei doctoring is very interesting and you may well be onto an as yet undisclosed relationship with that Asian woman, who is identified in one photo.

But the vital record index release that DOH made was specifically triggered by a request for all indexes for "Barack Hussein Obama" and in my understanding, when a marriage index comes up, it always returns the names of both the bride and groom.

The only reason that Stanley Ann Dunham is included in this specific release from DOH is that she is explicitly a bride of Barack Hussein Obama, for whom the index was requested.

This vital record index release by DOH for the Dunham-Obama marriage places the two of them together in HI. Their HI University transcripts also place them together in HI in the fall of 1960. Stanley Ann's HI transcript is contemporaneously corroborated by the U of Washington where those HI credits were transferred and where the credits also appear on her U of WA transcript.

487 posted on 02/06/2010 8:57:33 AM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

The education record is nothing but a clumsy amalgum of the records of two seperate individuals. You really need to take a much closer look at the detail.


488 posted on 02/09/2010 2:48:19 AM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks
“The education record is nothing but a clumsy amalgum of the records of two seperate individuals. You really need to take a much closer look at the detail.”

I see nothing “clumsy” about the two transcripts from state universities in HI and WA and nothing to support even a suspicion that two separate individuals are involved.

The WA transcript incorporates Stanley Ann's HI credits from the fall of 1960, shows her to be a graduate of Mercer Island HS, but shows her as a nonresident of WA consistent with her having changed her residence from WA to HI in between HS and enrolling in U WA.

The dialog in “Dreams” supposedly recounting Stanley Ann's own words including dates and age that would place her in Chicago in 1958, are in the voice of Bill Ayers, not BHO II and simply cannot be relied on. Stanley Ann graduated from HS in 1960 and was not reported in any accounts to be pregnant at any time before graduation in 1959, as you have suggested.

One would think that witnesses would have been found in Mercer HS if Stanley Ann had been pregnant there or given birth to a mixed race child.

One witness has SADO arriving in WA with a newborn and and another witness who babysat for Barry while SADO was taking classes has taking an apartment in her building in early 1962 in WA with a six or seven month old infant.

The major mystery that I see remaining is the location of SADO between the her marriage to BHO Sr and her arriving in WA, during which time BHO II was born. SADO crossed at least a good part of one ocean with a newborn to get from HI to WA, but was there only ocean that she crossed and when?

489 posted on 02/09/2010 12:33:21 PM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: Fred Nerks

I see 08-01-0961. ???? I’m lost now.


490 posted on 02/09/2010 1:05:50 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Seizethecarp

The major mystery that I see remaining is the location of SADO between the her marriage to BHO Sr and her arriving in WA, during which time BHO II was born.
________________
Nobody saw her pregnant, nobody even knew she and Sr. were a couple or that she was pregnant with his kid. No photos of SAD and Sr. NOT A SINGLE ONE. No photos of baby Barry with Sr. or any with SAD until he was a toddler. The story is a lie.


491 posted on 02/09/2010 1:13:03 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: mojitojoe

The Immigration Search result brought up details of two individuals by the look of it...one individual has a birthdate of January 8, 1961.

His origin is shown as Equatorial Guinea.


492 posted on 02/09/2010 1:27:08 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Wow, you did all this?

Great Stuff! I missed this the first time around!


493 posted on 02/17/2010 3:51:50 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; Fred Nerks

Jerome Corsi of World Net Daily seems to have gotten alot of material for his recent article right out of this thread HERE, posted long ago at FR.


494 posted on 02/17/2010 3:57:49 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: RaceBannon

thanks, I had some help from a few Freepers from time to time, I keep adding to it, it gets better as it goes along, one day when you have the time, read to the end, it’s over 400 by now - and ongoing.


495 posted on 02/17/2010 12:03:10 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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FOR THE RECORD:

The images from comment #87 have disappeared, replacing them here:

Barak Obama (center) and friends at a party given by Arnie and Suzie Nachmanoff, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in the early 1960's

From left to right: Arnie Nachmanoff, (Former Under Secretary of the Treasury, and host), Suzie Nachmanoff (host), Barak Obama (Kenya), Bob Ruenitz (Fromer Senior State Department official, USA), and Dorothy (USA)

Barak Obama and his friends at a party hosted by Arnie and Suzie Nachmanoff, in the early 1960's, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Lower Photo; Taken in Hawaii in 1961 at Arnie and Suzie Nachmanoff's house (Pearl Harbor): from left to right: Kiri Tith (then Cambodia), Kitaichi (Japan), Marda (USA), Ichiro (Japan), Suzie Nachmanoff (Host, USA), Dave (USA), Kunio (Japan), Bob (USA), Rajapakse (Sri Lanka), Barak Obama senior (Kenya), Anne (USA)

SOURCE

496 posted on 02/17/2010 12:17:19 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE 'APPLICATION' - source

THE BLAINE DOCUMENT October 19, 2009 by John Charlton. source link

WILLIAM BLAINE RELEASES PURPORTED OBAMA CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH by John Charlton

(Oct. 20, 2009) — At 10:22 PM Last evening someone purporting to be William Blaine issued the following email:

Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:15:27 -0400 Subject: Obama Birth Proof + Cert.pdf

My client has asked me to share this with you and asks that you share it with as many patriots as possible so that it cannot be scrubbed from existance.

I trust you will know what to do with this.

Attached to this email was the following Certificate of Live Birth of Barack Hussein Obama, which contains no file number: ...

161 posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:08:42 AM by Fred Nerks

THE DOCUMENT:

Why was the above document declared to be fake? As soon as it appeared, claims of forgery hit the threads. Let's try another look at it, shall we? What might be the story behind the document?

A SCENARIO - FWIW -

Someone asks for an application form for a birth certificate from the relevant authority in Hawaii.

The form is taken home to be completed by the applicant.

The applicant is told what names to use on the application form.

The applicant receives instructions by telephone. The names are written down phonetically.

MADELYN becomes MADLYN.

MARTIN BLAINE ERICKSON becomes ERICSON.

and box 20 for the doctor is nothing but a scribble no one can read.

EACH 'SIGNATURE' IS WRITTEN BY THE SAME HAND.

The name of the street is spelled incorrectly. So what might all that tell us?

That the person completing the form may have spoken swahili as their mother-tongue, a language that is written down phonetically, like arabic...a habit difficult to break out of.

Not a local. Couldn't spell the name of the street.

SO IT WASN'T MADELYN DUNHAM WHO MADE THE APPLICATION. SHE WOULD NOT WRITE HER OWN NAME DOWN AS 'MADLYN'.

The application was duly submitted, but as there was no supporting information available regarding the birth and where it took place, the application was FILED. Without being stamped, signed or sealed nor given a certificate number...because it couldn't BE CERTIFIED.

Years later, Madelyn Dunham attempts to obtain a CERTIFIED COPY OF A BIRTH CERTIFICATE, but she can't, because she doesn't have the required documentation to prove birth either...and there it remained. A FILED COPY OF AN APPLICATION. Made by someone obviously FOREIGN to Hawaii, whose first language WAS NOT ENGLISH.

BUT WHY 'KENYA-AFRICA'? Hospital unknown...could it be that at the time, the mother of the child simply didn't want anyone to know where she, or the child really was living? She might as well have been in Canada, not wanting to be found.

INTERESTING CONNECTION.link

497 posted on 02/17/2010 2:11:54 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Beckwith

NIGERIAN MUSLIM JIHADIST AND AL QAIDA TIES STARTED LONG AGO WITH ALHAJI MUTALLAB THE FATHER AS A LEADER OF SHARIA MOVEMENT IN NIGERIA
By AFRICATODAY
Nigeria News | Sat, 02 Jan 2010

http://www.modernghana.com/news/257271/1/nigerian-muslim-jihadist-and-al-qaida-ties-started.html


498 posted on 02/17/2010 11:32:34 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: butterdezillion

499 posted on 02/19/2010 4:54:26 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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http://www.modernghana.com/news/257288/1/nigerian-bomber-ghana-replies-nigeria.html

As the search for security lapses continue, Nigerian authorities say Mr Abdulmutallab had boarded a Virgin Nigeria plane from Accra to Nigeria, arriving at Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed airport on 24 December.

According to them the suspect spent a longer period in Ghana where the security checks should have been conducted to detect the explosives being carried by the young man.

However, Deputy Managing Director of Ghana Airport Company, Yaw Kwakwa, told Joy News the Nigerians’ attempts to shift the blame on Ghana was misplaced.

He said the authorities have measures in place to check such attempts, adding that, whenever they have any hint that people would be using Ghana to embark on such a mission “we will increase our chances of catching the person here”.

On the issue of whether the suspect started his journey from Accra, he said: “Nobody is saying that the person was living in Ghana, therefore, he started his entire journey from here.


500 posted on 02/21/2010 1:15:32 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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