HOW OBAMA IS AFRICAN
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. It took coming here, to the darkest pit of hellhole Africa, for it to finally dawn on me who Zero really is, to what total extent he isn’t American at all, but African.
This is my first time here, and assuredly will be the last. Yet I wrote about Equatorial Guinea back in 2006 as an example of Why Africa Is So Stupid. It discusses the research on global IQ explaining why sub-Saharan Africa is at the bottom of humanity’s barrel in terms of tyranny, corruption, and poverty – because the average IQ of sub-Saharan Africans is 67.
The average IQ in Equatorial Guinea is 59, the lowest of any country on earth.
Freedom House, in its 2011 Worst of the Worst report, highlights Equatorial Guinea as "one of the world’s most repressive societies." Its dictator, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, is a murderer who ran the Black Beach Prison where countless prisoners were tortured to death. He has ruled since 1979, declared himself to be his country’s God who "can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account and without going to hell" in 2003, and last January was elected by leaders of the 54 member-states of the African Union (AU) to be its Chairman.
His picture is everywhere in the country:
Although the AU is headquartered thousands of miles away in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Obiang has built a huge AU conference center outside of Malabo, a hyper-luxury hotel, and a beautiful 18-hole golf course. Along the links are 54 identical multi-million dollar villas for the exclusive personal use of each of the AU’s 54 leaders. Obiang himself has a number of Presidential Palaces, and bought a $31 million dollar home in Malibu, California (and a $15 million dollar apartment in Paris) for his playboy son Teodorin, whom he is grooming to succeed him.
Obiang uses his country’s oil revenue as his personal piggy bank, enriching his friends and family while the average citizen of his country lives on $1 a day. But there is nothing at all exceptional about him. He is merely yet another example of what in Africa are called Big Men – narcissistic charismatic sociopaths who gain power however they can, never let go of it, look upon themselves as demi-gods for whom ordinary morality does not apply, utterly convinced they deserve to be worshipped with total obedience, and to live in complete extravagance while being completely indifferent to the poverty of others.
Remind you of anyone in America?
Africa’s most infamous Big Man today is Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s dictator since 1980. There are many others. Jose Eduardo dos Santos, a Communist guerrilla leader, has been dictator of Angola since 1979. Idriss Deby of Chad since 1990, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia since 1991, Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea since 1991, Yayhya Jammeh of Gambia since 1994, Paul Biya of Cameroon since 1982, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda since 1986, Blaise Campaore of Burkina Faso since 1987 when he murdered his predecessor in a coup.
Omar Bongo was Gabon’s Big Man from 1966 to his death in 2009. In Gabon’s capital of Libreville, there is this small monument on the ocean front.
Some homeless guy was sleeping on it when I took this. This was Bongo’s execution site, where folks he didn’t like were shot with their bodies falling into the sea. It was erected by families of the victims, with no sign or any indication saying what it is. When he died two years ago, his son, Ali Bongo, was promptly "elected" president.
Gnassingbe Eyadema seized power in Togo in 1967, establishing a president-for-life personality cult that included comic books with him as a superhero and an entourage of 1,000 women who danced and sang in his honor. When he died in 2005, his son, Faure Gnassingbe, was "elected" to be Togo’s Big Man.
Nowadays, these banana republic tinpot dictators are viewed by the international community as anachronisms. The only reason anyone pays attention to them is resources, like oil in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Angola.
But when Zero was born in 1961 and during all the years when he was growing up, Africa’s original Big Men bestrode the world’s stage. The first leaders of de-colonized independent Africa – none of them elected, all handed power or seizing it – were lionized internationally as Heroes of the Third World. Whatever extravagances or bloody "excesses" they engaged in were whitewashed.
Occasionally, when some psychopath became too flamboyant, like Uganda’s Idi Amin, he was condemned. But Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah – whose soldiers’ marching chant was "Nkrumah can do no wrong! Nkrumah can do no wrong!" – really could do no wrong internationally. TIME Magazine ran a cover story on him as "dawn’s early light" in Africa, while the Soviet Union awarded him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.
He was a Marxist, of course, who hated the West and its capitalism. Ghana, as Britain’s Gold Coast colony, was amazingly productive and prosperous when Nkrumah took over in 1957, and he ran the economy straight off a cliff. Julius Nyerere did exactly the same thing when he took over Tanganyika/Tanzania in 1961, ruling until 1985. He’s lionized to this day: in 2009, the UN General Assembly designated him a "World Hero of Social Justice."
Big Men ideologues ruined their economies -other examples would be Northern Rhodesia/Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda or Guinea-Conakry’s Sekou Toure. Those who weren’t, didn’t – like Felix Houphouet-Boigny ran the Ivory Coast from its independence in 1960 to his death in 1993, or Hastings Banda who ran Nyasaland/Malawi from 1961 to 1994 when he died at age 99. Nonetheless, they were presidents-for-life in a one-party state.
Many others were just full-blown kleptocrats, Guinness record holders of arrogance and corruption like Congo/Zaire’s Joseph Mobutu (ruling from 1965 to his overthrow and subsequent death in 1997).
Africa’s biggest Big Man of all was Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta. He was too smart to be a Marxist, and kept the economy going with British help as Kenya’s first president from 1963 to his death in 1978. He was also utterly ruthless. If he couldn’t buy off a potential political opponent, he had him assassinated. One of them was a charismatic fellow named Tom Mboya.
Mboya had gone to Oxford where he learned his Marxism. He was best friends with Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, and the author of The Principles of African Socialism which Nkrumah loved and Kenyatta ignored. As Mboya’s popularity grew, Kenyatta tried to placate him with a cabinet position as Minister of Economic Planning and Development. It failed, as he openly talked of challenging Kenyatta’s rule. On July 5, 1969, Mboya was shot to death by a gunman on a street in Nairobi. He was 39 years old.
Ten years earlier, in 1959, Mboya organized with Nkrumah’s help the Airlift Africa Project granting scholarships to students from Kenya and a number of African countries to attend US universities. One of the first to receive such a scholarship was a young friend of Mboya’s and fellow Luo tribesman named Barack Hussein Obama.
After his dalliance with Ann Dunham at the University of Hawaii and Ruth Baker in Massachusetts, Obama returned to Kenya in 1964, where Mboya got him a job as senior economist for the Ministry of Finance. When Mboya was assassinated, Kenyatta had him fired, and according to his son’s book, Dreams of My Father, he became an alcoholic. A Big Man, Jomo Kenyatta, destroyed Obama Sr.’s life and his chance to be a Big Man himself as the protégé of Mboya.
When you read Zero’s account of his father in the context of decolonized Africa and its tradition of Big Men, you realize what his dream is: to be an African Big Man himself. The current President of the United States is not an American, not in his soul. He is an African. Not an "African-American," for that term only appropriately applies to descendants of Africans brought to America as slaves.
Zero is completely lacking in that ancestry and cultural heritage. His ancestry and heritage is half black African, which he embraces, and half white American, which he despises. He has no interest in being an American president. He wants to use the presidency to be a Big Man, to be worshipped and obeyed, to rule by executive decree, to live like a king and play more golf than conduct the business of state.
By now, you are no doubt focusing on the most worrisome feature of this, that Big Men never give up power willingly and will do whatever it takes to retain it. America has the deepest, most historically entrenched traditions of elected government in the world. How will America’s Big Man attempt to subvert them?
IQ, general intelligence, has a genetic component. It also has a nutritional component (as in Africa), and certainly a cultural component. In addition, it can affected by attitude. That is, it is quite possible for smart people to make themselves really stupid – just look at all the devotees of the religion of Warmism. Or for folks of ordinary intelligence to be really dumbed down – just look at our public education system and its OWS products. The term "libtards" is not simply one of derision – liberals, often quite bright, have inflicted mental retardation upon themselves.
Big Men in Africa flourish because average African IQ is so low. A majority of American voters willingly retarded their brains to African levels in November 2008, and according to polls, 40% or more still are doing so. We, you and I, really are in the fight of our country’s life. Yet many Republicans are willing to have Mitt Romney fight for them.
The good news is that we are in the fight. It is far from over, it’s outcome far from determined. Let’s hold on to the insight of Winston Churchill, who observed: "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing… after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
America’s African Big Man has got to be evicted from the White House. Now that we understand who and what he really is, it will easier to serve him his eviction notice.