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Subject: Ogabe lives out his father's anti-colonial dream
Zhang Fei    9/9/2010 8:42:10 AM
Dinesh D'Souza examines the sources of Ogabe's political philosophy, and suggests that the apple has not fallen far from the tree:
But to his son, the elder Obama represented a great and noble cause, the cause of anticolonialism. Obama Sr. grew up during Africa's struggle to be free of European rule, and he was one of the early generation of Africans chosen to study in America and then to shape his country's future. I know a great deal about anticolonialism, because I am a native of Mumbai, India. I am part of the first Indian generation to be born after my country's independence from the British. Anticolonialism was the rallying cry of Third World politics for much of the second half of the 20th century. To most Americans, however, anticolonialism is an unfamiliar idea, so let me explain it. Anticolonialism is the doctrine that rich countries of the West got rich by invading, occupying and looting poor countries of Asia, Africa and South America. As one of Obama's acknowledged intellectual influences, Frantz Fanon, wrote in The Wretched of the Earth, "The well-being and progress of Europe have been built up with the sweat and the dead bodies of Negroes, Arabs, Indians and the yellow races." Anticolonialists hold that even when countries secure political independence they remain economically dependent on their former captors. This dependence is called neocolonialism, a term defined by the African statesman Kwame Nkrumah (1909--72) in his book Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, writes that poor countries may be nominally free, but they continue to be manipulated from abroad by powerful corporate and plutocratic elites. These forces of neocolonialism oppress not only Third World people but also citizens in their own countries. Obviously the solution is to resist and overthrow the oppressors. This was the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. and many in his generation, including many of my own relatives in India.
 
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VelocityVector    China   9/9/2010 6:22:11 PM

Colonialism is evil, period.  You don't subjugate human beings in their own lands unless they threaten to destroy you and yours.  What has happened in the colonial past needs not to be forgotten but must remain an artifact of the past and not continued forward.  One might wish to believe the PRC for example arose from anti-colonial reaction but then there is the sad case of Tibet.  Stop it.  0.02

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earlm       9/9/2010 10:25:12 PM
Globalization is not colonialism.  That's what the morons on the left don't get.
 
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Zhang Fei       9/12/2010 4:26:50 PM
Here's another interesting passage from the essay:
 
It may seem incredible to suggest that the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. is espoused by his son, the President of the United States.  That is what I am saying.   From a very young age and through his formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction.  He came to view America's military as an instrument of neocolonial occupation.  He adopted his father's position that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder.  Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America.  In his worldview, profits are a measure of how effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and America's power in the world is a measure of how selfishly it consumes the globe's resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the rest of the planet. 
 
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