"In
his recent stop in our African homeland, Barack Obama continued to reveal the
essence of his Western metamorphosis. … He must take care that he doesn't fall
into the same racist trick as his compatriot Michael Jackson, who mutilated his
nose and transformed his rich cocoa-colored skin to a lifeless, pale white, to
commit racial suicide."
In his recent brief stop in
our African homeland, Barack Obama continued to reveal the essence of his Western
metamorphosis. Soon after the omnipotent U.S. presidential mask was bestowed upon
him, he rejected an invitation to attend a significant event - the U.N. Conference
on Racism. He followed up on that with a Zimbabwe somersault and a memorable
statement in Ghana about how Africans have to accept both responsibility and
blame for their lack of development.
Now was it logical for the
first Black U.S. president who governs a place where the first Africans arrived
in Jamestown in 1619 in chains to reject an invitation by the U.N. Conference
on Racism - where many nations of Africa, Asia and other continents took part? And
what was his reason? Obama asserts that the conference doesn't represent what
America stands for.
If any nation was most
suitable to lead such a conference, it was the United States and its first Black
President. In the late 1860s the United States fought a civil war over slavery
and racism. The war was fought between the newly industrializing North led by
Abraham Lincoln and the agrarian Southern Confederacy, where Black people
farmed and picked cotton for Whites led by Jefferson Davis. It was the end of that
civil war which led to the liberation of Blacks. This was later called by
Lincoln, “Emancipation.”
In the United States, the
period of the early 1900s and the first and second wars were characterized by a
notorious racist creed known as "Jim Crow [see video
below]." Jim Crow laws deepened racism and jungle justice, which included the
burning and lynching by White mobs of Blacks, who had no recourse to justice.
New Black Nationalist Movements arose to challenge this unparalleled barbarism.
Among them were Marcus Garvey’s United
Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Other Black
leaders that emerged to challenge the mass killings and oppression of Blacks included
the great Malcom X and of
course, the Reverend
Martin Luther King Jr.
While President Obama didn't
serve as what Malcom X called, “a field negro” or witness the imposition of the
diabolical Jim Crow, he certainly experienced the Civil Rights and Black
Nationalist Movements of the 1960s, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
and the passage of the Civil Rights Bill.
The rise of the Black Panther Party in the 1970s, the “Back to Africa
Movement” and Pan Africanist Movement led by George
Jackson, Stokely
Carmichael, Amiri
Baraka and others throughout the 1980s up to today, are strong indications
that racism and the persecution of Blacks in the U.S. continue unabated and
threaten the very survival of Africans in America.
Furthermore, President Obama’s
Kenyan father was influenced by the popular Mau-Mau rebellion against
British colonialism and White supremacy led by Kenyatta and others. Thus,
President Obama’s deliberate absence as well as the absence of the United
States from the World Conference on Racism is best described as the
metamorphosis of a “field negro” into a “house negro.”
Libyan ruler Muammar
Qadhafi comments on U.S. democracy and 'Kenyan brother' Barack Obama, and
says Obama suffers from an inferiority complex that might make him behave
'Whiter Than the White, June 11, 2008.
Demonstrating this mutation
even further, Obama has gone on to strengthen George W. Bush’s policy toward
Zimbabwe. Land, the predominant means of subsistence in Zimbabwe, had been
under the unjust control of minority White settlers led by Ian Smith. Blacks fought a
bitter revolution under Robert Mugabe and others to liberate themselves from
racism and reclaim their only means of subsistence - land. Despite the Lancaster
Agreement and in the interest of white settlers, Britain and the Western
world led by the United States imposed severe economic sanctions on the young
Zimbabwe.
Africans shed their blood in
order to recover their means of subsistence from their former White masters. To
reverse their gains, various types of racist propaganda were invented. In
Zimbabwe, new parties with new stooges were created and Robert Mugabe became
known as a “sit tight” leader - an attack that the West never made on any of
its imperial allies - even the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. However, what really
astonishes most Africans is the intense bellicosity President Barack Obama has
shown in continuing the sanctions - even when America’s Western allies have hinted
at resuming economic aid to Zimbabwe.
Obama’s excuse for not
resuming aid to Zimbabwe was again related to what he feels were the absence of
“democratic values.”
Despite the democratic
efforts Zimbabwe has made, which included the replacement of its veteran prime
minister with Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe continues to be strangled by hyperinflation.
With its people wallowing in abject poverty, the racists in their narcissism
feel that they must prove to themselves that Zimbabweans can't feed themselves
without White farmers.
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Let us note the case of South
Africa, in which Blacks under the African National Congress accepted a
negotiated end to Apartheid. There, the means of subsistence has remained in
the hands of the White minority while the Black population continues to suffer
skyrocketing unemployment, poverty, poor education and very high mortality rates.
Have Obama and the Western allies he leads cared to redress this injustice?
Rather, as a means of deception, they are busy contemplating how to erect
statues in Europe to Black leaders.
Obama’s latest assertion came
on his brief stopover in Ghana, having come from Saudi Arabia where there are
no pretexts to elections. Again, true to his master’s voice and in defense and
applause of White supremacists, he utters that Africans should accept the blame
for their underdevelopment. While our own [Nigerian attorney] Femi Falana
responded to this blunder and self alienation, its logical rebuttal comes from
numerous well-researched historical texts from Diop, Cabral, Amin, Rodney and others. Obama may refer to Rodney’s How
Europe Underdeveloped Africa for a start. Barrack Obama is walking a
tight corner.
President Barack Obama addresses Ghana's Parliament in
Coming from a Black minority
that makes up 12 percent of the American population and representing the
Democratic Party, which is comprised of a substantial White majority, he must
be careful not to be alienated from his own Black identity. Without a sense of
his Black and African origins, he runs the risk of being inadvertently used by
the White majority in reversing much of the civil rights gains and affirmative
action won by previous Black struggles led by King, Malcom X and others.
Obama must take care that he
doesn't fall into the same racist trick as his compatriot Michael Jackson, who
mutilated his nose and transformed his rich cocoa-colored skin to a lifeless,
pale white, to commit racial suicide. Should he fall for the same trick, the
damage to himself and African progress will be immense and immeasurable.
*Henry A. Onwubiko is a
social activist and a professor of biology at the University of Nigeria
