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.

[bushpilot1]

Thanks I am trying to keep up...only two cups of coffee..visiting the Philippines..just woke up.

[bushpilot1]

The book is on google books..and I have a copy of it..Jefferson’s statement is on page 266..the intent of my post was to show..are “deep rooted prejudices entertained by white; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained...”

Is this the real reason why we have threads like this? Is this the real reason we have so many racial problems in America today?

Are blacks and whites today living together in harmony? Are we neighbors? Do we attend the same churches?

We have a problem with racial divide in this country. Is Jefferson smarter than me and you? He is a hecka lot smarter than me.

[Brown Deer]

Is this the real reason why we have threads like this?

What? You're not making much sense with questions like that.

[bushpilot1]

http://books.google.com/books?id=NgKidsPa_QoC&pg=PA144&dq=Thomas+Jefferson:+%22deep+rooted+prejudices&cd=7#v=onepage&q&f=false

Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson is the original source.

[I_be_tc]

later

[bgill]

Well, well, well. Another coinky-dink and a big shout out to Eligibility Bob. I have spent this whole time searching out every name on that list and low and behold when I clicked to post my findings my computer froze and I couldn’t get the info back.

Bottom line, the vast majority is a who’s who of racial activists from the Viet Nam era until today. Many clergy. Many college profs. Many arrested for activities. Democrats and Socialists and Commies. This is who mentored papa Obama and it filtered down to the usurper. All in all it’s a very scary group who despise America.

[Fred Nerks]

http://keywiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

use SEARCH on KEYWIKI. Capital Letters, enter the name. Most of them will probably be there.

[bgill]

Yes, that’s what I had done. Almost all were there or easily located elsewhere. I’m getting very very annoyed having computer freezes ONLY on these threads.

[Albertafriend]

Somewhere around my post #537 I gave a link to a googlebook. The book is called Shadow World:Resurgent Russia, the Global New Left and Radical Islam by Robert Chandler. Tonight I came across an article that had appeared on American Thinker with the same title—a summary of the book. I was reading a part of the book online called The Rubin Imperium which provides a history of Samuel Rubin and how he made his fortune working with the Soviets, his involvement in the Spanish Civil War and his Faberge cosmetics—the name of which he stole from the real Faberge family which had fled from Soviet rule around the time of the Russian Revolution. He passed his fortune on to his daughter,Cora, and with her husband,Peter,they set up and ran the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). Here is an excerpt from the American Thinker article:

Within the United States, the tentacles of the Kremlin-sponsored, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington and its vast network of affiliates aids in the promulgation of this anti-capitalist pro-Socialist agenda.

IPS in the United States and the Transnational Institute (TNI) based in Europe are the main Communist fronts promoting an anti-capitalist, pro-Socialist agenda for cultural transformation. The IPS purposely understated the Cold War threat to the West in order to shift America’s priorities away from the military-industrial complex toward social programs. The organization has attempted to penetrate government, academia and the media to work toward disarmament, non-intervention against Soviet aggression and the termination of military alliances. They have targeted NATO, the Defense Department, defense contractors, arms manufacturers and intelligence agencies with disinformation and propaganda.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, TNI advocated environmental issues to slow economic growth and hasten the disarming of the West. IPS and TNI work with a cadre of intellectuals, journalists, professors, politicians and government officials who support and promulgate cultural Marxism by manipulating public opinion and structuring policies and legislation to undermine the government, subvert the U.S. Constitution and aid in the transformation and radicalization of U.S. institutions. The IPS has successfully advanced a laundry list of taxpayer-financed entitlement programs under the cover of “equality and fairness,” endeavored to limit corporate power and damaged U.S. military supremacy by working to cut military and intelligence spending.

Here is the link to the online book again:

http://books.google.ca/books?id=wkY2-U7JW3wC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=samuel+rubin+foundation&source=bl&ots=Rsq833Eoq6&sig=aQcNXQYdh8v-DQWjA8se2l_-oZg&hl=en&ei=KP7HS6XQFZPUsQO43YSYCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAgQ6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q=samuel%20rubin%20foundation&f=false

The Rubin Imperium begins on page 181. It has a lot of information about Cora and her husband and some others that were connected to Rubin and also a lot of information about IPS and their massive and powerful and evil anti-American sphere of influence. I think it also gives a lot of insight into what kind of ideas swirl around in 0’s mind and what his intentions are. It doesn’t have any info about the airlift though. I guess Chandler missed that connection. Everybody should take the time to read it though because it really does reveal what’s going on right now.

[Fred Nerks]

In the middle of that summary at #577 we find CORA WEISS making this statement:

“Barack Obama missed out on a seat on that first plane. Luckily the two teachers stepped in and raised money for him to come over on a parallel flight,” she said.

“He picked up the scholarship from the University of Hawaii. And while he was there, he needed money for books and tuition and clothes, some of which we sent him.

“So he wasn’t on the airlift, but he was a member of the airlift family.”

...and that is very disturbing, Obama Senior was never on a parallel flight, he was already installed (enrolled) at the University in Hawaii when interviewed in June, 1959.

The airlift of which she speaks, landed in September, three months later.

I also read some of the book to which you provided the link and several paragraphs above. It's not just obama's ideology that is being exposed, but the dubious connections of the man he maintains was his father.

[Fred Nerks]

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http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-World-Resurgent-Russia-Radical/dp/1596985615

[bushpilot1]

The message was misunderstood, there were no threats, if there were the moderators would have pulled it.

Divide my time between the Mississippi Gulf coast and the Philippines. Have been to Jackson and Kiln.

Have a nice day.

[LibLieSlayer]

Sorry... I made a poorly phrased point a week or so ago and had the same sort of response from her that you did. Sorry... I should have just remained silent. I just hate racism wherever it rears its evil head. Have a great day FRiend.

LLS

[OafOfOffice]

When the Soviet Union collapsed, TNI advocated environmental issues to slow economic growth and hasten the disarming of the West.

Which is exactly what Browner and Holdren have said. America must slow economic growth. By force. I will read all of this later. It blows Krauthammer theory that communism is dead and not a problem to us. I think he is brilliant but we disagree on this. You can bet all of Soros funded societies, groups and websites are all a part and parcel of this scheme. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

[OafOfOffice]

All of this information really spells out a lot of things. Why Obama is as arrogant as he is. He and his marxist allies just pulled off the biggest scam ever on America. He knows the rest will be easy. He just has to lie and force legislation all into his hands and his unelected thugs. He only has to convince the people to get the vote passed. Once passed it is too late to turn back. Just like Mayor Daley’s airport runway, once done you can’t turn back. The taxpayers have to pay in the end even for illegal activities.

It tells me why his supposed dad, Obama senior, was never a part of Obama’s life. He was only a fixture. A part of the scam. Why Obama was probably born in Kenya as a cover for Stanley Ann not being pregnant but coming home with a baby.

Also why Rollo C Payne would raise the daughter who was part of the plan as suggested in the 3 Stooges go to Washington story.

It tells me why Obama’s grandfather’s military records are sealed. It tells me how Obama was free to travel and had money most of his life when he never worked.

And it is possible obama senior is not his father. It is possible Stanley Ann was only a fixture also.

And it appears they pulled a lot of this off working with the CIA and Russia. Meaning they are or were double agents. Which means death to traitors.

Any thoughts from anyone to add or discount?

[danamco]

“That young man would become famous in a few short years, 1963 Dallas, Texas, to be exact. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963.”

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This Texas(?) lady, Madeleine Brown says something different, quite convincing, BTW!!!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1929769365635576415&q=lbj+mistress&hl=en#

[OafOfOffice]

I have been listening for a 45 minutes. I have to turn it off to go to a appointment. Who did Johnson hire? Could he have hired Oswald? I will listen to the whole thing later.

It makes me sick if we have politicians who would do such a thing. These are evil men with the most power of anyone in our land.

Thanks for alerting.

[LibLieSlayer]

Here I am with a big old guilty hang dog look on my face and an apology to LucyT. She was not the person that posted to me a week or so ago and I mistakenly accused her of being that person. I was 100% in the wrong and I apologize to both you and her.

I am sorry,
LLS