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Obama, the African Colonial
Quote:June 25, 2009
Obama, the African Colonial
By L.E. Ikenga

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: ---MORE---

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(06-30-2009 12:22 PM)Rebel Wrote:  
Quote:June 25, 2009
Obama, the African Colonial
By L.E. Ikenga

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: ---MORE---

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03-lmfao The guy is just guessing. He has no ******* clue as to what Obama thinks.
06-30-2009 12:30 PM
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It's not a guy, fool. As usual, you didn't read. Probably just read the title. What's the matter, too many big words?
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Must be a slow day Reb, you're reaching.
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(06-30-2009 12:56 PM)egoboss407 Wrote:  Must be a slow day Reb, you're reaching.

You're showing yourself to be exactly the type of sheep she describes.
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Reb, why are you trying to analyze a brother? 05-stirthepot
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(06-30-2009 01:11 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  Reb, why are you trying to analyze a brother? 05-stirthepot

That's not my analysis, homes.
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(06-30-2009 12:33 PM)Rebel Wrote:  It's not a guy, fool. As usual, you didn't read. Probably just read the title. What's the matter, too many big words?
Ok. Sorry. I didn't read the entire story just the first part-but I just did. It is a conservative African woman. Guess what? It is still bull****. She is just GUESSING at what he is thinking but nowhere does it say she talked to him or even personally knows him. American Thinker? Yeah, a source that can be trusted. 03-lmfao
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(06-30-2009 01:20 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(06-30-2009 12:33 PM)Rebel Wrote:  It's not a guy, fool. As usual, you didn't read. Probably just read the title. What's the matter, too many big words?
Ok. Sorry. I didn't read the entire story just the first part-but I just did. It is a conservative African woman. Guess what? It is still bull****. She is just GUESSING at what he is thinking but nowhere does it say she talked to him or even personally knows him. American Thinker? Yeah, a source that can be trusted. 03-lmfao

...and if you can't see that he's doing exactly as she says, you're either blind, or a complicit sheep who looks forward to the day this place mirrors the USSR circa 1960.
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(06-30-2009 01:20 PM)RobertN Wrote:  Ok. Sorry. I didn't read the entire story just the first part.

Never mind it was a really short read, why are you chiming in? If you didn't read the topic, how do you form a response? Do you look at the name of the topic starter and then just spew one of your cookie-cutter tripe replies?
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This guy never lived in colonial Africa, only met his father twice yet I'm suppose to believe there is this great influence.
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He says himself his father was a great influence on him.

Think he even wrote a book.
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Rob, the woman isn't guessing or reading his mind, she has simply observed the man, something it seems everyone but you and firmbizzle has done, and is from first hand experiance, giving a plausible explaination for his illness.
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(06-30-2009 02:13 PM)Paul M Wrote:  Rob, the woman isn't guessing or reading his mind, she has simply observed the man, something it seems everyone but you and firmbizzle has done, and is from first hand experiance, giving a plausible explaination for his illness.

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That's cold man.
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(06-30-2009 01:33 PM)Paul M Wrote:  
(06-30-2009 01:20 PM)RobertN Wrote:  Ok. Sorry. I didn't read the entire story just the first part.

Never mind it was a really short read, why are you chiming in? If you didn't read the topic, how do you form a response? Do you look at the name of the topic starter and then just spew one of your cookie-cutter tripe replies?
I read the opinion piece that was copy and pasted but missed that it was a conservative *****(only using that word because I know it will get a rise out of you guys). :)
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(06-30-2009 02:25 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(06-30-2009 01:33 PM)Paul M Wrote:  
(06-30-2009 01:20 PM)RobertN Wrote:  Ok. Sorry. I didn't read the entire story just the first part.

Never mind it was a really short read, why are you chiming in? If you didn't read the topic, how do you form a response? Do you look at the name of the topic starter and then just spew one of your cookie-cutter tripe replies?
I read the opinion piece that was copy and pasted but missed that it was a conservative *****(only using that word because I know it will get a rise out of you guys). :)

Let me do some copy/paste.

"Ok. Sorry. I didn't read the entire story just the first part."
"I read the opinion piece"

So which of those statements of yours is the lie?
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(06-30-2009 12:30 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
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03-lmfao The guy is just guessing. He has no ******* clue as to what Obama thinks.

Wow are you desperate. People who do research and think through things in a rational, systematic manner, are not guessing. I know that's virtually inconceivable to you...but it happens.
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(06-30-2009 02:32 PM)Paul M Wrote:  
(06-30-2009 02:25 PM)RobertN Wrote:  
(06-30-2009 01:33 PM)Paul M Wrote:  
(06-30-2009 01:20 PM)RobertN Wrote:  Ok. Sorry. I didn't read the entire story just the first part.

Never mind it was a really short read, why are you chiming in? If you didn't read the topic, how do you form a response? Do you look at the name of the topic starter and then just spew one of your cookie-cutter tripe replies?
I read the opinion piece that was copy and pasted but missed that it was a conservative *****(only using that word because I know it will get a rise out of you guys). :)

Let me do some copy/paste.

"Ok. Sorry. I didn't read the entire story just the first part."
"I read the opinion piece"

So which of those statements of yours is the lie?

When you put it like that, you make it look like half of Robert's posts are truthful and/or make sense. You might want to rephrase that. 03-lmfao
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(06-30-2009 03:28 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  
(06-30-2009 12:30 PM)RobertN Wrote:  What say you, libs?
03-lmfao The guy is just guessing. He has no ******* clue as to what Obama thinks.

Wow are you desperate. People who do research and think through things in a rational, systematic manner, are not guessing. I know that's virtually inconceivable to you...but it happens.
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I know exactly what he thinks....He has the same opinion as ALL politicians do....That the state has the answer to problems. Unfortunately...he and his cohorts are wrong...The state only "causes" problems.
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What I find funny is that a lot of the terms she uses to describe an ACP would be accurate description of many of the Ibos that I have met here in America.

IMO this author this author does what a lot of political writers do. That is take facts, insert their own personal belief and pawn the whole writing off as truth.

She is right about how the Ibos got duped, but personally I do not see where we American have been duped yet.
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