Aw HELL, this lady is good!
L. E. Ikenga. She writes of things not thought of by many I’m sure. She writes of Obama, the African colonial.
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.
And her perspective is extremely apropos:
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.
Let me simply say, go read it. Excellent writing, excellent introspective.
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For a long time, I’ve thought that Obama didn’t look at the U.S. as an American citizen born and raised the the U.S. did. I simply figured that it was a result of having been largely raised overseas in foreign cultures. I didn’t think that he placed the same value on being an American that the rest of us did.
This lady puts a whole new light on it.
As I’ve said. whether he was born here or not, he’s NOT an American.
Wow….just, wow….
She nails the entire picture! I had been wondering why we were on the same path as Mugabe, but couldn’t put my finger on it. This should be required reading for all.
Who knew that the “first black prez” would actually be decendant of slave traders and and imperialistic thug?
I thought that was an incredibly good article. Answers a few more questions, huh?
LC you’ve hit a greater piece of irony than you know. One I’ve enjoyed for years is that many of the slave traders in Africa were Moslem. The irony appeared when the Nation of Islam was created. An all black organization that hated anyone white because of their participation in slavery embraced (sort of) the faith of the very people who were the starting point of slavery.
Dr. Jeff, that is one of my favorites too!!!
Back before anthropology was hijacked by leftist wackos, my professors would teach about the horrible atrocities committed by followers of Islam, including slavery. Sadly, the course I remember is no more….PCness and ideology have curtailed it severely.
A profanity directed at PCness. A fact is a fact, historic or current. Just because it hurts somebodies feeeeewings makes it no less a truth.