Already, Mr. Obama seems to have understood this issue. By his words, he does not believe in the "support" of "subtle racists". Besides, the inconsistency is glaring: active poachers are supporting animal protector.
Were it in Africa, Obama would ascend to nowhere with his gentlemanly politicking. If he wants to ascend, he would have to establish and work with clans of disciple-thugs. Because most "politicians" in Africa are murderous thugs, far cruder than the stormtroopers of the late fuhrer of Germany.
Some African elites say they are supporting him, even staging fund-raising in his name. I want to say to Mr. Obama: Beware; even be wary, of the so-called Africa's support. May you not get infected with the "neo-African" spirit, the make-believe mentality, sycophancy, colorful painting of non-reality.
We see Africans' version of greatness in their die-hard attachment to ready-baked cakes: donations, aids, crude resources.
They say: he is a black man.
What does that mean outside the USA? A blaq man in America...How would we appreciate a nonBlack who rises to bless Africans in Africa, practically?
They say: he is Kenyan-American and the index of the Dark-skinned Race. This too, to me, is another wrong indentification. Mr. Barak Obama is an American. Nothing more; nothing less. Besides, to support or oppose someone just because he is of a certain human species is sheer racism (the very thing of which they imply that Obama is a deletion factor). I do not like racism (the exclusion of people from privileges, even social contacts, on considerations of race or ethnicity).I think we should be more mindful of his character, ideologic inclination and, most importantly, his worldview, than the nativity of his grandparents.
Racism is real and active. What I'm saying is: we should not substitue racism for itself (the victim's version for the pervasive dominant version). Instead, we should capitalize on the good factors (the immigrancy and the relative judicial impartiality...) of the American society; which makes it sometomes demonstrate things that are hardly imaginable elsewhere.
To me, South-of-Sahara Africans' financial support for Mr. Obama is not in good faith. The elites want Obama to bring "investors" who would bribe them with 10 million euro. This is the construation of foreign investment among elites and power-brokers in many parts of Africa. They want to make him a Euro-American hedgemon...to continue the help-the-Afs syndrome (a sort of cognitive debility; emotional immunity to self-improvement).
To be creatively interested in any Obama anywhere, African elites and power-brokers should first steer Africa out of the perpetual babyhood (charity-dependency) it had fallen into. Surprise the world positively by refraining from, or better, repenting of, internecine predaciousness. This thing is what makes Africa, socio-politically, a place of crime, disease and despair. You don't need donors dollars to invest in the stock of ethical integrity, hard work and responsive patience. This point is observable throughout the world. Executives of prosperous peoples do not thieve...Almost all lackluster nations are populated and officiated by thieving scamps and nincompoops who neither grow nor allow their brethren and neighbours to.Other places similar to Africa clearly have somethings else. Redemptive features. Excepting a few spots, Africa has none.
I still salute in honour, personalities like Mbeki and a few others.
While Obama symbolizes principled freedom, these aid-mongers symbolize or represent flashy bondage on the surface of Africa.
I love Africa(ns). But that love has become the pain-laden type.Parasitic elitism and charity-dependency will never qualify Africa for prosperity.
