Posted by: zanshin, 2009-06-27 06:53

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Obama, the African Colonial
L.E. Ikenga, 2009-06-25 (Thursday), American Thinker
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:


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.
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.
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?
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?
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.

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2009-02-02Freedom Beats A Global Retreat
2009-02-09The Whole World Is Rioting as the Economic Crisis Worsens -- Why Aren't We?
2009-02-17Shock Wave (Anti) Warrior
2009-02-27Full Text of Human Rights Record of United States in 2008
2007-08-29President Bush Addresses the 89th Annual National Convention of the American Legion
2007-08-24The Human Bomb -- The Sarkozy regime begins
2007-08-26Tomgram: Juan Cole, The Republic Militant at War, Then and Now
2007-09-02Remarks By The President At 2002 Graduation Exercise Of The United States Military Academy
2007-09-05If you want my opinion
2007-09-21While the West Loses Its Soft Power
2007-09-24Betrayed -- The Iraqis who trusted America the most
2007-06-28U.N. Predicts Urban Population Explosion
2007-06-29Is “Old Europe” Doomed?
2007-07-01Democratic Realism -- An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World
2007-07-04Grand Strategy for a Divided America
2007-07-02Blair bombast
2007-07-06From Blair to Brown
2007-07-06Liberalism vs Islamism
2007-06-17Tough being a superpower
2007-06-25Israel's 40 Years of Occupation: From Democratic State to Violent Oppressor
2007-06-25Somalia: The Other (Hidden) War for Oil
2007-06-25Tony Blair, Three-Time Loser -- Op-Ed
2007-06-22Al Qaeda Strikes Back
2007-06-05President Bush Visits Prague, Czech Republic, Discusses Freedom
2007-06-06Contours Of The Putin Era
2007-06-08Leaving the Zionist ghetto
2007-06-11Interview with french president Nicolas Sarkozy
2007-06-12Current Problems in American Foreign Policy - A Talk Given to the Mount Holyoke Alumnae
2007-06-12Globalizing Weakness: Is Global Poverty a Threat to the Interests of States?
2007-06-122006 Commencement -- Baccalaureate Address
2007-05-26Feminist, socialist, devout Muslim: woman who has thrown Denmark into turmoil
2007-05-27Scott Ritter: Calling Out Idiot America
2007-06-01Islam in the West
2007-06-01An Islamic Journey Inside Europe
2007-05-29Vice President's Remarks at the United States Military Academy Commencement West Point, New York
2007-08-20A False Choice in Pakistan
2007-08-20New Power in Africa -- Entrepreneurs From China Flourish in Africa
2007-08-15President Delivers State of the Union Address
2007-08-08Germany Left Out of Global Policy Loop
2007-08-12How the ‘Good War’ in Afghanistan Went Bad
2007-08-06The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11
2007-07-25Want to Understand Islam? Start Here
2007-07-25Restraint? Sure. Oppression? Hardly
2007-07-25Muslims Speak Out -- Mustafa Ceric
2007-07-27To Check Syria, U.S. Explores Bond With Muslim Brothers
2007-07-12Republic or empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States
2007-07-08Bin Laden's Fatwa