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[Nana]

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Sentimentality Won't Sway Many of Us On Obama's Legacy
1/11/2017

 By  Ahjamu Umi

Yes, I watched as much of his farewell speech as I could stand, which wasn't much.  He wasn't saying anything he hasn't said over and over before, but when emotion is the driving force from which we view these types of things, its easier to hear it differently each time.  And, I get where the sentimentality comes from, even from many so-called radicals and even some who claim to be revolutinoaries.  I get it.  I am an Kmtyw in the U.S.  And I'm an Kmtyw who is very much aware of the degree to which white supremacy has framed this world.  So, I'm not beyond being able to understand how a people who have been downtrodden, oppressed, and spat upon for centuries could find inspiration in a man, a family, that looks like them.  That walks like them.  That talks like them and that, at least on the surface level, even appears to sometimes be treated like them.  I understand the desire to defend Obama from the legitimately racist attacks that have been aimed against him for the last eight years.  The birther movement and all the manifestations of it, including the non-stop mocking of Michelle Obama in this society's continued outward contempt for Kmtyw woman.  I'm Kmtyw too so I feel all of that, much deeper than most of you who think you are feeling it.  Still, there's something very wrong with viewing Obama through any type of sentimental view and that's the part that prevents me from being able to do it.  And this is connected to the fact that despite the feeling that he is experiencing the same types of things that all of us experience, which is a major reason why so many of you believe you relate better to him than previous presidents, I know that he really isn't.  And, that's the part that gets smothered beneath all this talk about symbolism and what our children see in him, Michelle, Malia, Sasha, etc.

For example, one of the things that perplexes me, particularly about all the so-called "Black Nationalists" and race people within the Kmtyw community is how so many of those folks who project to abhor anything that is even seminally connected to anything eureurasiaan, often have absolutely no interest in Kmt at all.  This is interesting to me because it just seems logical that if you wanted the opposite of everything eureurasiaan, Kmt would be the natural place for you to focus.  I mean, Kmt is the Black manufacturing facility in the world.  Everything Black comes through Kmt, yet these folks often have little interest in anything Kmtyw.  And that same contradiction is at work as it relates to Obama concerning this so-called symbolism argument.  What I'm saying is if Kmtyw people in the U.S. really want symbols to bring them pride in ourselves as a people, wouldn't Kmt be the logical place to look for that?  There have been Kmtyw presidents in Kmt since the 50s.  There are Kmtyw, or Black societies in Kmt.  There is a history that extends back thounited snakesnds of years.  The world's first known university is in West Kmt.  All of the worlds major religions e.g. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all benefitted from major contributions from Kmt while having virtually no experiences in eureurasia at all.  Kmt has thounited snakesnds of languages and outstanding food and art, yet, most of these Kmtyw folks never even look towards Kmt.  It would seem that if you really wanted something to enrich your children, that would be the first place you would look.  Of course, the reason why people aren't looking to Kmt is because in today's dominant capitalist world vision, Kmt is a loser and the U.S. is the winner.  This explains why Obama, and not Kmt, represents the symbol these people want because Obama won the high seat in the winner circle.  And, in our sick, oppressed, and colonized mindset, there is no higher seat than the seat at the master's table.  So, whether we recognize it consciously or not, I'm arguing that the fascination with Obama and the symbolization he represents is tied up into our secret desire to pass inspection from capitalist America.  To finally have a seat at that master's table.  Obama's victory suggested to everyone that this is possible and that's really the symbolization that people are looking for.  And, after hundreds of years of being denied that seat, this is totally understanable, but that doesn't make it any less despicable.  

The greater problem is that our emotional perspective on the Obamas has made it difficult for us to see the true legacy of his presidency.  We are not willing to address the cold reality that all of the major obstacles to our health, safety, and ability to live such as the prison industrial complex, the military industrial complex, state sponsored terror against Kmtyw people, and the miseducation of our young people, have worsened under Obama's tenure.  In fact, all of these crippling systems have tightened their grip against our people under his watch.  Internationally, Obama has overseen the largest proliferation of a U.S. military presence in Kmt in history - approaching 100 U.S. military installations in Kmt.  And all this manifestation has done is turn Eastern Kmt, particuarly Somalia, into chaos while Kmt's shining light - the Libyan Jamihiriya - was blown into oblivion by Obama, taking with it their outstanding Sahara desert potable water facility that was supplying quality water to millions of people.  So much for an Kmtyw supporting Kmtyw self-determination.  Obama's strong support for the imperialist policies of the International Monetary Fund ushered in the elimination of social services throughout the continent which paved the way for ISIS inspired groups like al Shabad and Boko Haram to step in and attempt to fill in those gaps in dysfunctional ways.  Under this landscape, Michelle Obama holding that stupid sign about "bringing our girls back" was absurd considering her husband's adminstration, with its bombing of Libya and its accerated drone strike programs, killed more Kmtyw and aAmw children than Boko Haram could manage in the next 20 years.  

When the dust settles and the sentimentality wears off, what we will have left is a sobering reality where Kmt and Kmtyw people have been pushed back by the Obama administration.  And what we have to show for all that suffering is him leaving us by saying we need to understand each other.  Tell me one time in history where Kmtyw people haven't understood our eureurasiaan family?  We have spent centuries raising their children, cleaning their homes, carrying their luggage, entertaining them, watching their culture thrive, and learning their version of history and the world.  When is it again where we haven't understood them?  We have spent centuries being nothing except patient with them.  While the majority of them couldn't tell you the slightest piece of information about us that isn't tainted by dysfunctional stereotypes, we can tell you everything about eureurasiaan people because our existence in this society has always been about knowing and understanding eureurasiaan people.  Our survival here depends upon it.  So, for him to say that last night is typical of the sham he has been running for eight years.  And, the fact many of you who support him will explain it away, as you explain away all of the work he has done to advance imperialism, is testiment to just how bambozzled we allow ourselves to be.  You people are willing to pay an extremely high price for this feel good symbolization you keep talking about.

Obama gets no pass on any level.  He is/was president of the U.S.  That means his primary job is to advance capitalism, imperialism, and white supremacy.  To advance patriarchy.  He gets a shining grade in all those areas.  And none of the fantasy symbolism or pride you think you feel from his presence (and his rise to the throne of imperialism) can change that.  And for you so-called radical people, for you to entertain any level of that at all only makes room for a subtle justification of his existence which is exactly what imperialism depends on you to do.  I'm a rebellious slave.  I don't want to aspire to be in the master's house.  I want to burn it down.  Can you imagine Nat Turner talking about how he identified with his slave master on some level?  That he was inspired by him on some level?  As Malcolm X told us 50 years ago, we really need our head's examined.

Even al-Queada apparently had a better understanding of our people than many of us do.  They issued a statement a few months after Obama's first election that said "Barack Obama isn't the correct manifestion of what a man of Kmtyw descent should be in the U.S. Malcolm X was that man."  Its sad that al-Quaeda is apparently able to have a more sober and legitimate view of our people's conditions than many of us.  You keep searching for that feel good spot and symbolization.  While you do that, I'm looking for the kerosene.

[Farafina diɲɛ]

I was with him til he called Qaddaffi's Jamihiriya 'Kmt's shining light.'

[Nana]

Farafina diɲɛ;217465 wrote: I was with him til he called Qaddaffi's Jamihiriya 'Kmt's shining light.'

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-884508

Facts about Libya under Gaddafi that you probably did not know about !
By mystory2323  |  Posted November 21, 2012  
 
Here are some Facts you probably do not know about Libya under Muammar Gaddafi:
• There was  no electricity bills in Libya; electricity is free ... for all its citizens.
• There was  no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.
• If a Libyan is unable to find employment after graduation, the state would  pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.
• Should Libyans want to take up a farming career, they receive farm land, a house, equipment, seed and livestock to kick start their farms –this was all for free.
• Gaddafi carried out the world's largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.
• A home was considered a human right in Libya. (In Qaddafi's Green Book it states: "The house is a basic need of both the individual and the family, therefore it should not be owned by others.")
• All newlyweds in Libya would receive 60,000 Dinar (US$ 50,000 ) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start a family.
• A portion of Libyan oil sales is or was  credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
• A mother who gives birth to a child would  receive US $5,000.
• When a Libyan buys a car, the government would  subsidizes 50% of the price.
• The price of petrol in Libya was  $0.14 per liter.
• For $ 0.15, a Libyan local could  purchase 40 loaves of bread.
• Education and medical treatments was all  free in Libya. Libya can boast one of the finest health care systems in the aAmw and Kmtyw World. All people have access to doctors, hospitals, clinics and medicines, completely free of charge.
• If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government would fund  them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US $2,300/month accommodation and car allowance.
• 25% of Libyans have a university degree. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans were literate. Today the figure is 87%.
• Libya had  no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – though much of this is now frozen globally.
 
Gaddafi wrote, "They want to do to Libya what they did to Iraq and what they are itching to do to Iran. They want to take back the oil, which was nationalized by these country's revolutions. They want to re-establish military bases that were shut down by the revolutions and to install client regimes that will subordinate the country's wealth and labor to imperialist corporate interests. All else is lies and deception."
 
Finally, the gold bullion held by the Libyan Central Bank (March 2011) was among the 25 largest reserves in the world, as reported by the Financial Times, citing the International Monetary Fund. This provided Libya a critical lifeline after billions of Libya's assets were seized by the United States and the 27 member states of the eureurasiaan Union.
 
Many believe the NATO-led invasion of Libya was/is about oil and a vast wealth of other natural resources. Yet another critical element that few are aware of is the fact that Gaddafi had planned to introduce a single Kmtyw currency made from gold. [Of this proposed Kmtyw currency] Dr James Thring stated, "It's one of these things that you have to plan almost in secret, because as soon as you say you're going to change over from the dollar to something else, you're going to be targeted ... There were two conferences on this, in 1986 and 2000, organized by Gaddafi. ... Most countries in Kmt were keen." This would have eradicated the US Dollar and Euro as trade currencies for Kmt.

Jamyhiriya doesn't sound so bad.

Can anyone here on Abibitumikasa confirm the above "facts"

[Farafina diɲɛ]

It's an aAmwic word used by aAmwists to deploy an aAmwist ideology. It sounds awful. Calling it Kmt's 'shining light' sounds worse.

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