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As a Nairobi bureaucrat, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. advised the pro-Western Kenyan government there to "redistribute" income through higher taxes. He also demonized corporations and called for massive government "investment" in social programs.
Writing in a 1965 scholarly paper, Obama's late father slammed the administration of then-President Jomo Kenyatta for moving the Third World country away from socialism toward capitalism. He chafed at the idea of relying on private investors — who earn "dividends" on their venture capital — to develop the country's fledgling economy.
"What is more important is to find means by which we can redistribute our economic gains to the benefit of all," said the senior Obama, a Harvard-educated economist. "This is the government's obligation." The "means" he had in mind were confiscatory taxes on a scale that redefines the term "progressive taxation."
"Theoretically," he wrote, "there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed."
Therefore, he added, "I do not see why the government cannot tax those who have more and syphon some of these revenues into savings which can be utilized in investment for future development."...
"One who has read Marx cannot fail to see that corporations are not only what Marx referred to as the advanced stage of capitalism," he wrote. "But Marx even called it finance capitalism by which a few would control the finances of so many, and through this, have not only economic power but political power as well."
Du Bois: The color line and the new millennium The New Crisis, Jul 1998
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Today, globalization is becoming the catchword for universal progress among Europeans. There is a growing realization among people of color worldwide of the attempt at globalization of the color line to facilitate that socalled progress. This is true not only in North America but also throughout Europe-and wherever Europe's kith and kin rule; neofacist, racist formations and sentiments proliferate; violence and arson are perpetrated against people of color; and wholesale anti-immigration moves to are made to dominate the political landscape. All go unreported by the U.S. media to the American people. Europe and North America are responding in the only way they know to a growing challenge to their hegemony from the developing world of people of color, which totals some fourfifths of humanity. Du Bois believed in democracy If we believe in democracy we must know, whatever the struggle, the outcome is inevitable.
David G. Du Bois is president and CEO of the WE.B. Du Bois Foundation Inc., and visiting professor of journalism / Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Obituary: David G. DuBois, retired Afro-American Studies and Journalism scholar
David Graham DuBois, 79, of Amherst, retired visiting professor of Afro-American Studies and Journalism, died Jan. 28 at Cooley Dickinson Hospital after a brief illness.
He was March 9, 1925 in Seattle, Wash., and grew up in African Methodist Episcopal church parsonages around the state of Indiana under the guidance of his maternal grandparents, the Rev. David A. Graham and Etta Bell Graham.
He attended Oberlin Conservatory of Music before serving in the armed forces during World War II. Following the war, he graduated in 1950 from Hunter College with a degree in sociology.
In 1951, his mother, Shirley Graham, married African-American theorist and historian W.E.B. Du Bois and soon after he legally became David Graham DuBois.
After graduate work at the New York School of Social Work at Columbia University, DuBois earned an M.A. in history from New York University in 1956.
Following a year’s study in Chinese language at Peking University, DuBois took up residence in Cairo, Egypt in 1960. He lectured in American literature at Cairo University and served as news editor of the English language daily, The Egyptian Gazette. DuBois also was a reporter and features editor for the Middle East News and Features Service agency, an announcer and program writer for Radio Cairo’s shortwave English language transmissions to North America, and a public relations consultant to the government of Ghana under President Kwame Nkrumah.
In 1972, DuBois returned to the U.S. where he lectured in African-American studies at the school of criminology at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1973-75, he was editor-in-chief of The Black Panther, the weekly newspaper of the Black Panther Party published in Oakland, California.
In 1973, his novel “And Bid Him Sing,” was published by Rampart Press. The book was based on the experiences of African-Americans in Egypt in the period leading up to the 1967 Mideast war.
DuBois returned to Egypt in 1977 and made Cairo his second home. In 1983, he was appointed a visiting professor of Afro-American studies and journalism at UMass Amherst, where he taught each spring semester until his retirement in 2001.
He was the founding president of the W.E.B. Du Bois Foundation, Inc., honoring his step-father, a member of the management committee of the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture located in Accra, Ghana, and a member of the Council of the China-Du Bois Study Centre located in Beijing.
A memorial service will be held Sunday, Feb. 27, 2-5 p.m. in the Lincoln Campus Center Auditorium.
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Joshua DuBois: Obama's Pastor-in-Chief
Obama has charged DuBois — who will lead a council of 25 influential religious and nonprofit leaders — with helping both faith-based and secular groups galvanize their communities by providing everything from social services to job training.
• Born in Bar Harbor, Me. and raised in Nashville, Tenn. and Xenia, Ohio. DuBois' stepfather is a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; his grandmother took part in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins
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