Obama, the African Colonial

American Thinker ^ | June 25, 2009 | L.E. Ikenga

[neverdem]

The little president who wasn't there

[Clemenza]

The ironic thing is that most Puerto Ricans and Dominicans are mulatto to “high yellow” but are not considered black merely because we have the ridiculous “Hispanic” category.

[El Gato]

Instead of expropriating farms Obama is expropriating auto manufacturers.

Maye he figures that farmers are more likely to cap his ash?

[QBFimi]

African Colonial Nkrumah ping

[QBFimi]

African Colonial Nkrumah ping

[QBFimi]

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[Tailgunner Joe]

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[Fred Nerks]

CONTINUATION - THE GHANA STORY. GHANA POST IDEPENDENCE POLITICS.link

After independence, the CPP government under Nkrumah sought to develop Ghana as a modern, semi-industrialized, unitary socialist state. The government emphasized political and economic organization, endeavoring to increase stability and productivity through labor, youth, farmers, cooperatives, and other organizations integrated with the CPP. The government, according to Nkrumah, acted only as "the agent of the CPP" in seeking to accomplish these goals.

The CPP's control was challenged and criticized, and Prime Minister Nkrumah used the Preventive Detention Act (1958), which provided for detention without trial for up to 5 years (later extended to 10 years). On July 1, 1960, a new constitution was adopted, changing Ghana from a parliamentary system with a prime minister to a republican form of government headed by a powerful president. In August 1960, Nkrumah was given authority to scrutinize newspapers and other publications before publication. This political evolution continued into early 1964, when a constitutional referendum changed the country to a one-party state. On February 24, 1966, the Ghanaian Army and police overthrew Nkrumah's regime. Nkrumah and all his ministers were dismissed, the CPP and National Assembly were dissolved, and the constitution was suspended. The new regime cited Nkrumah's flagrant abuse of individual rights and liberties, his regime's corrupt, oppressive, and dictatorial practices, and the rapidly deteriorating economy as the principal reasons for its action.

Shirley Graham Du Bois and Kwame Nkrumah at Du Bois' casket

[Iowan]

Thank you, Fred Nerks.

Excellent.

Ping.

[Fred Nerks]

GHANA. NKRUMAH.DU BOIS. LINK

It was not only the nascent Ghanaian state that embraced Nkrumah as its hero. The new Pan-African consciousness, nurtured by the U.S. civil rights movement and liberation struggles around the world, saw him as a liberator. Du Bois was just one of hundreds of African-Americans who came to Ghana in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta King had been present at independence, where they were said to have wept as Nkrumah proclaimed Ghana’s freedom. (Du Bois was regrettably forbidden at the time from leaving American soil and couldn’t attend the celebrations.) Other visiting notables in the early years included Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Richard Wright and Maya Angelou. Fed up with their second-class status in the United States and fueled by ideology, Black American émigrés in Ghana believed they were reuniting the “African family,” which had been torn apart by slavery and colonization.

Du Bois State Funeral Ghana, 1963.

[Fred Nerks]

Thanks, although history isn’t everyone’s favourite subject, without the background...how can we understand the present? I will continue to tell the story.

[Fred Nerks]

THE HOTEL THERESA STORY.

WIKI: "It has a striking white brick facade and was known as the "Waldorf Astoria of Harlem." From the time it opened until 1940, the hotel accepted only white guests plus a few black celebrities. This changed when the hotel passed to new management.

Louis Armstrong, Sugar Ray Robinson, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, Dorothy Dandridge, Duke Ellington, Muhammad Ali, Dinah Washington, Ray Charles, Little Richard, and Jimi Hendrix all stayed in the Hotel or lived there for a time, as did Fidel Castro, while in New York for the 1960 opening session of the United Nations, after storming out of the Hotel Shelburne because of that hotel manager's "unacceptable cash" demands.[1] Castro's entourage rented 80 rooms at the Theresa for $800 per day.[2]

The hotel profited from the refusal of prestigious hotels elsewhere in the city to accept black guests. As a result, black businessmen, performers, and athletes were thrown under the same roof.

After leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X maintained his competing Organization of Afro-American Unity at the hotel and hosted meetings there. He met Cassius Clay in the hotel on various occasions.

Bill Clinton's commerce secretary, Ron Brown, grew up in the hotel, where his father worked as manager. U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) once worked there as a desk clerk.

The hotel may have enjoyed its greatest prominence in 1960. Nikita Khruschev visited New York in that year, during the week when Castro was staying in Harlem, and came to meet him in the hotel. Also, in October 1960, John F. Kennedy campaigned for the presidency at the hotel, along with Eleanor Roosevelt and other powerful figures in the Democratic Party.

[Fred Nerks]

SOMETHING ABOUT MALCOLM X

"...Malcolm moved to New York City where, to support himself, he became a numbers runner, a drug dealer, even a pimp. He wore zoot suits and dyed his hair red, which earned him the nickname 'Detroit Red.' He relocated to Boston again where he organized a robbery ring that was uncovered by the police in 1946, and he was sentenced to eight to 10 years in prison.

...Malcolm used the time behind bars to educate himself in the prison library where he learned the fundamentals of grammar and increased his vocabulary. It was here that a few inmates introduced Malcolm to a new religion and movement, The Nation of Islam. Malcolm's younger brother, Reginald, already a member, visited him and told him about Islam and about Allah. Much of what Reginald said confused Malcolm, but two phrase took root in his head, "The white man is the devil" and "The black man is the brainwashed." Malcolm learned that if he wanted to join, he would have to accept its theology and submit completely to its founder and leader, Elijah Muhammad.

Inspired by the new direction his life was taking, Malcolm wrote Elijah Muhammad a heartfelt letter about himself and why he wanted to join. Elijah wrote back welcoming Malcolm to the faith. He instructed Malcolm to drop his last name, which his ancestors inherited from a slave owner and replace it with the letter X which symbolized that his true African name had been lost. In 1952, Malcolm was finally paroled from prison. Rather than returning to the life of crime, Malcolm committed himself to learning more about his new religion. "...In 1958, Malcolm married Betty Shabazz, a Muslim nurse and together they had four daughters (plus two more born after his death).

[Fred Nerks]

Malcolm X continued: "...Over the next several years, Malcolm became the spokesperson for the Nation of Islam and became one of its most powerful speakers attracting thousands of African-Americans into the fold with his charismatic speeches and rich and powerful words. Malcolm's charismatic personalty also attracted the attention of the white media. But unlike Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who believed in non-violent tactics to archive equal rights for blacks, Malcolm favored the use of arms and proposed a revolutionary program that would create a separate society for blacks in America. Malcolm's relationship with the media displeased Elijah Muhammad for he felt that the Nation of Islam's messages where being overshadowed by Malcolm's newfound celebrity...

In the early 1960s, Malcolm learned of paternity suits filed by two women of the Nation of Islam who worked for Elijah Muhammad as his secretaries. Determined to get to the bottom of the rumors about Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm met with the two women and later privately with Elijah Muhammad who did not deny the accusations against him as he did publicly but justified his actions by comparing his with other Biblical figures as David and Noah who suffered from "moral lapses". Elijah's response left Malcolm dissatisfied and contributed to his growing disenchantment with the Nation of Islam...

MALCOLM X ZIONIST LOGIC. LINK

"...The number one weapon of 20th century imperialism is zionist-Dollarism, and one of the main bases for this weapon is zionist Israel. The ever-schemingEuropean imperialists wisely placed Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world, infiltrate and sow the seed of disension among African leaders and also divide the Africans against the Asians.

Zionist Israel's occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armaments making it impossible for these newly independent Arab nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevate the living standard of their people...

DEATH AND AND TRANSFIGURATION.LINK.

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.

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

[Fred Nerks]

the story continues...

[Iowan]

Many thanks for your excellent work, Fred Nerks.

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[LucyT]

Thanks, Fred Nerks, for all your photos and additions to this important thread. Wonderful job.

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[Vendome]

Violation of the Logan Act and very un-American

[MHGinTN]

Very interesting essay!

"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." And we see it writ large with Barry's Michele's non-official opulent excesses. Sadly, the affirmative action figure's destruction of the American economy in service to his paymaster, Soros, and his mental master, Alinsky (w/ Cloward-Priven overshadowing) is perhaps more than the nation will be able to recover from and may sound the death of the Constitutional Republic.

Odd that, since the lying bastard is supposed to be a 'constitutiona scholar' yet has so little regard for the principles of a Constitutional Republic that he has set about to destroy it.

God have mercy upon America; it's a cinch our foreign and domestic enemies are not going to.

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Fred!

Thanks......I'm intrigued and watching closely.