Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re- Brother Obama and the Africa Motherland // Fatherland

Amended.

Enough to make your blood boil: The latest racial atrocity committed by US police: Samuel DuBose shot at close range in cold blood

To understand the petition we could go back to not just Marcus Garvey and Black Zionism but to Malcolm X's speech at the University of Ghana on May 13, 1964

Of  course the paradox is our American Brothers & sisters & cousins wanting to revive the "Back to Africa movement " & the Exodus from the US  even at this  juncture when  tens of thousands  of Africans are drowning in their  Middle Passage to Europe, over the Mediterranean Sea , in search of greener pastures…

Choirmaster Ogbeni Kadiri, I'm a cultural chauvinist of the great black music, a syncopating Congo man, those are my distinguished roots even if juxtaposed with your Apala, Juju and Fuji you disdainfully attribute my tradition to what you call "Spanish music". So what's all this about "it won't surprise one to see Cornelius dressed up in blue and yellow regalia with his fingers running on the buttons of an accordion and singing in praise of Obama for allowing him to export crisp-bread and blood pudding to the US."?

Catch the rhythm and feel the beat: My fingers on an accordion would be Haitian style accordion and not the typical Swedish dragspel

 

On Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:06:26 UTC+2, ogunlakaiye wrote:

A moment after posting the rejoinder beneath, Cornelius Hamelberg forwarded to this forum an online agitation captioned: African Americans Petition to Return to Africa. Essentially, the petitioners wrote, "One can only imagine how much fear is growing in the US's African American Communities in the past few months as more and more innocent individuals are killed at the hands of white police officers for no other reason than the colour of their skins. It is, however, an interesting coincidence that such a campaign would come into being during the tenure of the US's first African American President..."
 
If as the President, Obama cannot guarantee the security of life of African Americans who are victims of racial killings, why then should Africans expect him to come and help them from economic enslavement of Africa, perpetrated by Euro-American power structure? Africans who are expecting Obama to come and liberate them are saying that charity begins from outside and not at home. Obama is a cat dressed up in the fur of a tiger and only ignoramuses are surprised that he comes home, after hunting, with a mouse and not a gazelle.
 
Nevertheless, US's relation to Europe is quite different from Africa. While US is taking  lion shares of African mineral and forest resources, Europe is taking tiger shares. Thus, if the dad of Obama had come from Sweden, it won't surprise one to see Cornelius dressed up in blue and yellow regalia with his fingers running on the buttons of an accordion and singing in praise of Obama for allowing him to export crisp-bread and blood pudding to the US. 

 

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:54:42 -0700
From: cornelius...@gmail.com
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re- Brother Obama and the Africa Motherland // Fatherland

 Re- this discussion, so far (23.40 Stockholm time)
As you can all imagine if it had been a Nigerian-American that had been elected President of the United States of America the demands for him to relate to and solve all of Nigeria's chronic problems would have been overwhelming.
I can imagine the sorts of praise-singing if his dad had been Yoruba (come hear Ogbeni Kadiri and the Yoruba Gospel choir,  Haruna Ishola the patron saint of Yoruba musicians would have himself  have been conducting the choir from the heavenly ancestral sphere ) and if the dada had been Igbo, I expect  that  quite naturally and without any affectation or bias, Lord Anunoby would have raised the high moral platform from which he usually delivers his moralizing homilies a few notches above material old Biafran or new Nigerian airspace and by all means a little closer to the heavens above the Nigerian stratosphere;   and lastly but by no means least, if the dada  was Hausa or Fulani whoever it is or was that was president of Nigeria's Federal Republic at the time would have been humbly requesting all the necessary  assistance to either make peace with or to defeat  Boko Haram, conclusively and for extra assistance in tracking the movement of Nigeria's  looted trillions
The same high expectations would have been in place if the dada was from Jamaica, Togo, Morocco, Gambia or Senegal.
 In other words the president of the United States of America would have more than doubled as it is now being expected by some of Brother Obama's critics that as the most powerful president that the world has ever seen, being of African stock he should double down and act as president of both the United States and Africa.
Africa is not a supplicant down on her  bended knee  singing the temple lyrics in Jesus Christ super star  Muhammadu Buhari has also made clear  that he is not  the miracle man from Bethlehem, either
Some people have simply not been listening or paying attention to what Brother Obama has been saying and what he said
In the United State sof America
in Accra, Ghana
in Cairo, Egypt
In Nairobi, Kenya
In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
 What do Africans want?  That Brother Obama should approach with the big stick? Which big stick?  And then they would be mouthing something else – more foreign philosophy and some poetry. And what about the UN? The Africa Union?
 "From my considered opinion, it is about time Africans do things for themselves and stop day-dreaming that American Presidents, etc. are divinely mandated to help Africans." (Kwabena Akurang-Parry) – I agree with all the implications of this statement.
I've posted this under a separate heading, so that that discussion in that thread can continue without any interference from me.
Sincerely,
CH, 
Diaspora,
We Sweden
 

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