Obamas visit to Africa is a significant historical event. He is half African, president of US and the most powerful man in the world. His achievements in Africa would not be as revolutionary as what he symbolises. He will make history. He has achieved more that any serious man could dream. He is on the top of the world but Africa wouldn’t.

Most Africans are delusional about how the relationship of Africa and Europe is and should be. Africans thinks shell or total or Anglo should voluntarily pay tax on moral ground, Europe should share their wealth with them and Europe should not exploit Africa or have an advantage over it on trade.

Perhaps they have not hard about competitive relationship between business and states and countries over countries. That what business do. They want to pay lower taxes and exploit workers. If one doesn’t understand that one most be delusional and Obama cannot do noting about it. If shell or Anglo comes to Africa and bribe Africans and exploit them who is stupid fool.

Why do you think slavery took place in Africa and not Asia or South America because African sold Africans to Europeans for the price of nothing but sugar. If Africans don’t want Europeans to mine their resources let them do it for them self but you know what they can’t do it. Their leaders don’t have the vision and creativity to do it.

If Africa wants to develop it has to compete and not ask for anything base on social or humanitarian grounds. For example if they want free trade they can set a free trade zone in Africa. Hyper increase tax on European good and make a deal with the likes of china and India to reduce their taxes to make sure food prices don’t rise. With in six months Europe will allow African good in Europe. Africa should be competing not begging or blaming Europe for their problems.

Why is it that every time a country or continent needs help its the AMERICAN govt. that feels the need to intervene and make things worse. VIETNAM, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN and now AFRICA. American's went into IRAQ for the oil, Afghanistan for the OPIUM and now Africa for more resources. THE US says "Africa needs militiary assistance" but there are other things that are needed first. Issue's like better medical care and more ways of financing people's needs and better infrastructure, helping out small scale businesses, educating the youth, opening more schools and hospitals, end the GENOCIDE in DARFUR. Why is it that there's so much involvement of United States and not United Nations. The Africom project should be funded the way it is right now but why is it not being initiated by the UN. I strongly feel that US is going in to Africa for their resources and not to help out the people. Again and again time has shown how the American Govt. leaders have fooled the world by saying that they are intervening to help but it turns out "the help is provided to private companies who want the many resources available in the country invaded by US troops in return for money to the US". AMERICA LEAVE THE WORLD ALONE. WHENEVER YOU TRY TO HELP YOU END UP HURTING MORE. President Obama this one's for you:- Are you really trying to help make this world a better place for your own nation or for the rest of the world. Another Yes and No Question for the President. Does the AFRICOM project involve US trying to procure any kind of resources from AFRICA or not. And how does that help children suffering from starvation, literacy rate in the African nations and numerous other issues that are alike or fall in the same category of developing and strengthening AFRICA and not AMERICA.

Obama Talks Shallow Simplistic Rubbish, Scolds & Lectured Africans As Expected! Written by Paul I. Adujie Lawcareer2007@aol.com New York, United States

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Finally, Mr. Obama’s much publicized and much debated visit to Ghana has come and to pass and the world can now return to normalcy! Obama LECTURED the Africans, Africans will snap out of their old ways!

All major American television networks reported Obama stop-over for a few hours in Ghana, using words or terms which are usually reserved for truant children. Mr. Obama is reported as being stern, scolding and blunt to people in Africa. Obama is showing Africans tough love? Who need this type of love?

Are these what that all that Africans deserve from a native son? We are not kids! Obama was undiplomatic by choice, he knows how to be delicate with the Russians, he knows how to be measured with the Iranians and he knows not to be his polite best with Israel despite Israel violations of United Nations resolutions regarding Israel's land-grab in Palestine!

Obama was not blunt, stern or scolding when he genuflected in discussions with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome over issues of stem cell research and abortions, issues in which Obama the Pope are at opposite side of the spectrum!

Obama would have been more successful and impressive across the board and he would have shined and come across smelling like fresh flowers if he had visited Ghana, Kenya, South African commencing such well-thought out African visits accompanied with specifics of policies and programs, sundry initiatives and Nigeria as first prong of course. Additionally, such African visit ought to be coupled with revamped, reinvigorated and more robust American African policy which does not exist presently within the Obama administration.

Better yet, Obama could have attended an African Union summit and engage all African leaders in brotherly conversation and corralled them on how to press the reset button on democracy, good governance, institutional reforms, prosperity and advancement on the continent, instead, Obama chose the simplistic and voyeuristic public shaming and ridiculing of Africans, as if he was a member of the Klu Klux Klan and that is what some are courageously spinning and labeling tough love? I am dismayed!

Obama surely followed a script, otherwise, he knows or ought to know that he would have been more effective at nudging, imploring and engendering reforms, instead of appearing to backhand whack Africans while force-feeding them with archaic and mundane platitudes to which every person on any African street is keenly familiar!

Obama delivered the script of his masters and his handlers! A script written and orchestrated by African “experts” and Obama delivered the script in the form of scolding in stern blunt words which Obama could not use in talks with the Russians, the Pope and the North Koreans etc Obama was at his most condescending mien best when he was in Ghana! And this was mislabeled tough love and I say, Nonsense!

Some Africans already predicted that Obama would lecture Africans, and expectedly, he did to his heart content. He LECTURED democracy, human rights, corruption etc. Mr. Obama’s is that of appeasement and placation of all others, but, he just has made Africa the exception to his appeasement rule?

Obama did not scold or chastise Russia for her war in Chechnya and Georgia... and Russia for corruption and frequent murders of its journalists... and Russia for organized crime and Mafia way of business deal and Russia for preferring business deals with Iran over election matters and nuclear matters which Obama "so care about"

Obama did not scold or chastise Italy, where Obama was for several days... Italy with Prime Minister Berlusconi whose media empire is synonymous his other tools of corruption... in fact, Mr. Berlusconi has faced repeated charges of corruption and there is the Italian Mafia in there... but Obama went to Italy and he did not lecture Italians

Obama did not scold or chastise Israel, despite all that America does for Israel, Israel's current Prime Minister adamantly refuses to listen to Obama "gentle prodding and request" that Israel vacate occupied territories of Palestine and desist from expanding Israeli's land-grabs! Despite United Nations resolutions to this effect and despite the so-called "International Community" urging of Israel to comply

Obama says he will negotiate with Iran and North Korea UNCONDITIONALLY, and these are "supposed" to be the Axis of Evil ... American enemies per Mr. Bush....

Nigeria, no enemies of America or anyone, is being visited with diplomatic slaps and whacks in the face by this undiplomatic Obama? Obama is a tool in the hands of someone's agenda I was waiting for his apology for slavery and colonialism Ghana and Obama did not seize the moment. I am almost ready to write him off as another Mr. double standard leader of a western nation, preaching to Africa, what they do not practice in dealing with other nations. For his lectures and condescending manners towards Africans and peoples of African descent, I am jumping off this Obama bandwagon!

Obama has a knack for making the platitudinous sound poignant and profound! He repeated this feat again while addressing the parliament of Ghana, he made banal and meaningless embellished statements to come across as if inspired for Africa.

Imagine when Obama state the obvious, the pedestrian and the rather mundane, such as, “Africa’s future is up to Africans” I would hope so! And in retort, I thought it a fitting response to Mr. Obama’s trite public proclamation in Ghana, I would hope that the future of America is in the hands of Americans, and not in the hands of China, the Chinese who have of course been and still are currently shoring up America’s economy by spending trillions and trillions of dollars for the upkeep of the economy of the United States

Obama came to Ghana empty handed! He arrived Ghana without a program or policy tailored in its specificities toward Africa and Africans. But instead, he made empty speeches, which were replete and loaded with innuendoes which seem reserved for when Obama addresses Africans and African Americans and peoples of African descent.

Obama, during his inauguration speech used the Bill Cosby code-word of “take-responsibility” “taking responsibility” is the same he used while addressing Ghanaians, and even by Obama’s own admissions, he was in effect, exponentially addressing all 900 million Africans, as he ordered American diplomatic outposts to broadcast live and facilitate the spread of his inanities while in Ghana.

During Obama’s inaugural speech as president, I expected him to focus and harp on America’s checkered past and then, state the fact that he stood on the broad shoulders of those who fought his wars, his battles and that he is now stepping into their big shoes comfortably, after those courageous heroes have leveled the playing field through hard work and endless sacrifices, but, all that he pronounced was why some of us should take responsibility. Those who fought liberation battles from slavery to colonialism to Jim Crow on the continent of Africa and in the United States made Obama presidency even thinkable. Obama should not benefit and be repaying them with insulting platitudes.

Clearly, Obama certainly knows who to insult and who to be rude to and when to be cavalier to and I think he has been rude to Africans and peoples of African descent too frequently, in particular, with his pedantic pedagogical preachment of taking responsibility.

Apart from diagnosing African problems and challenges, Obama in Ghana was pure bland blah for a few hours! He came to Ghana to insult Africa, to criticize and to be purposely undiplomatic.

Africa has about 900 million people and Israel has less than 6 million people... what is the amount/quantum of American aid on yearly basis to Africa with a population of 900 million versus Israel of less than 6 million people... So, before some of you here .... suffer burst arteries and cardiac arrest over your perceived amount of aid to Africa do some fact checks... do some reality checks... contact US State Department and US Department of Defense and enquire and compare American aid to Israel compared with Africa during the last fifty years and self for yourselves!

All is agreed, arguably, that the need is greater in Africa, BUT, Africa is not where the greatest amount of foreign aid from America and Europe goes! These are verifiable!

Again, it must be stated that everyone in America and Europe are already familiar with very mundane method to which Obama resorted. It is the case that quite often, anyone and everyone, individuals, institutions and governments are quick to loudly and ostentatiously diagnose African challenges and then, they promptly proceed on their merry way to do nothing about the human conditions in Africa!

What is the point of relevance in loud diagnosis when you have no plan for relief in sight? What is the value of public criticism when you have no specific policy or program which addresses your “eloquent” diagnosis?

How about mutual responsibility? Parts of Europe and parts of Asia received Marshall Plan to enable reconstruction and rehabilitation of parts of Asia and Europe, after the self-inflicted World Wars, Africans and African Americans have not been so lucky, because after slavery, after colonialism, and yes, after the World Wars in which Africans fought as conscripted soldiers on behalf of America and Europe, Africans received no Marshall Plans or any such thing to put us in good stead, we were left to sink or swim, to fend for ourselves. And Obama glosses over, waves all these profound impact away with his left hand? Please!

On the important matter of slave trade history, of horrors and brutalities, Obama only made tepid terse and tired statements full of generalities about human capacity to do good and evil, evil that still exist in the world - blah, blah, blah.

And Obama acclaimed the extraordinary progress between Blacks and Whites; and such efforts which led to the abolition of slavery to his election I suppose. He used the statements again to take swipe at the locals as he spoke about oppression and cruelty wherever it appears. Lectures for primary school pupils?

In all this, Obama came across as suddenly lacking patented and trademarked oratorical skills, he suddenly pretended to lack all his usual fervid luster and manner of speaking, except when he referred to the irony of slave traders having a church erected right atop slave dungeon, the White slave traders exhibited outward manifestations of piety, even as they dealt in death, murder, maiming and shackling of their human cargoes of Africans as slaves. Slave traders with human cargoes treated worse than farm animals, exported out off of their entire familiar.

On the whole, Obama failed miserably, to seize the moment. Obama manifested a complete lack of interest, he suddenly appeared tongue-tied and inarticulate, as if in a loss for words. Obama’s comments at the slave dungeon, were surprisingly very short, he sounded tired, distracted, and he sounded as if needing coffee or as if overdue for an expresso-strength coffee-break!

Obama, whether when he addressed the parliament of Ghana or at his one minute statement at the slave dungeons, failed, refused or neglected to outline or layout his policy for Africa, and yet, every buffon-African is supposed to have been appeased Obama’s fly-over stop-over for a few hours, with the ensuing lectures and pronouncements?

Some are hoping, that Ghana can somehow maximize “benefits” from Obama’s quick-stop in Ghana, but what exactly are those benefits?

I guess some feel as if Obama’s stop-over in Ghana is to endorse Ghana as “a country with democratic spirit” is therefore seen as certification of Ghana as a nation fit as destination for investments, trade and tourism by America and Europe. And I am hoping that Ghana gets so good soon, after Obama’s prattling and tattling tales, so good in fact, that the 8 million people who are currently out of work or unemployed in America due to financial meltdown, will mill or troop to Ghana and I for one will gladly follow them to Ghana! As I am happy for Kwame Nkrumah and Jerry Rawlings’ Ghana. This is good for Ghana; our West African neighbor.

Obama’s display of his lack of diplomatic finesse is selective, so this talk about Obama showing tough love through his condescending lecture and diplomatic slap to Kenya, South Africa and notably for me, Nigeria; Obama’s brief foray into Ghana and the preachments afterthoughts wrapped in spin doctoring of Obama’s inept and undiplomatic approach to Africa.

It must be remembered and borne in mind that Obama has a track record of making impassioned and vociferous speeches with rhetorical flourishes, as he did at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, and in Philadelphia during his speech on race in America and Rev. Wright, then Obama’s speech in Berlin, Cairo, Buchenwald, Normandy, etc, it begs the question as to what changed in him in Ghana?

America through Obama has an ulterior and unhidden motive in Ghana even amidst Ghana’s modest gains. Ghana is said to be open to hosting the American military armada as headquarters for Pentagon’s so-called African Command or AfriCom and Ghana is suddenly now and exporter of petroleum and Ghana is seen as amenable and pliable by the Americans.

Obama knows where not to offend his hosts. And Obama knows those who could put his reelection in jeopardy or at risk, Obama also knows where to be a glib talker who speaks obliquely about injustices of the past, present, while sermonizing about responsibility, good governance and corruption redundantly avec sanctimoniously! What Obama parroted in Ghana, are things the average African already knew, and have dissected and digested for more than fifty years. I can only add that Obama is a smart man, who knows all these things.

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/world/afri ca/12prexy.html

A commentator in The New York Times wrote: he, (Obama) failed to acknowledge the role the United States played in getting Africa to where it is today. Ms. Susan Rice, the United Nation Ambassador, an undersecretary of state for African Affairs during the Clinton administration should have primed the President a lot better on the United States’ role in undermining democracy and promoting violence in Africa.

For the record, the trajectory of modern African history was shaped by the actions of United States, Belgium and France in today’s Democratic Republic of Congo in 1960, which was then known as the Belgian Congo. Who killed Patrice Lumumba and why?

The overthrow and murder of Patrice Lumumba by Belgium mercenaries radicalized Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana, pushing Ghana closer to the USSR. If an elected African leader could be overthrown and murdered by mercenaries from a country allied with the United Sates who was safe? Nkrumah followed that by funding armed liberation movements to challenge the white settler governments in southern Africa. This introduced an element of violence, unlike Ghana’s transition from British rule. The path taken by Nkrumah had a negative influence on his contemporaries.

Whereas in the affairs of Europeans the United Sates’ role was that of a guardian, nurturing democracy in Eastern Europe, the reader must be reminded that in Africa the U.S. favored any government, so long as it claimed to be pro-Western. Here is a partial list of U.S allies in Africa (and their fates in brackets) between 1960 and 1990: Liberia (civil war), Nigeria (civil war), Zaire (civil war), Sudan (need I say more), Kenya, and yes Somalia! How does anyone explain U.S funding of UNITA in the Angola Civil war? When the military overthrew Nkrumah’s government, the United Sates rewarded the junta by sending food aid and other consumer goods.

So the reader must note the irony that crestfallen Black-Star, Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, the final resting place of WEB Dubois, the NAACP pioneer, is still the best example of Africans managing their own affairs and the hope of the race in Africa.”

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/showpost.php?p=370798&postcount=3 Above links where Mr. Clement Ikpatt wondered about Obama’s redundantly mundane speech in Ghana http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/john-iteshi/is-president-hones t-to-black-africa.html Above links where Mr. John Iteshi wondered if Obama is fraud on the Black race

Obama knows where not to mince words. Or defer to diplomatic politesse and labored, tortured deliberate over-calibrated message, in which Obama seek to avoid unproductive confrontations and unnecessary loggerheads, his only exception so far, is Africa!

Obama certainly knows when to be a superb diplomat and an expert at delicately balance or even obfuscate through parsing of words, when the feelings of others are involved; It seems as if, in Obama’s view, he has some sorts of poetic license to be rude and undiplomatic especially when world issues relate to Africans, because, some percentage of the blood which runs through his veins is of Africa? Obama used this pedestrian but emotive line, to cloud and shroud his condescension with which he lectured Africans

As we kept hearing during Obama’s brief stop in Ghana, that Ghana is being REWARDED! Rewarded with Obama’s quick stop, but Ghana is being rewarded with what exactly? You would think Ghana is Israel which receives billions of dollars in American aid every year, and does not care what the US think! Israel has a population of less than 6 million and Ghana, America’s new best friend, has a population of 24 million people and what was America’s aid to Ghana last year compared with Israel? Ghana rewarded with what?

Obama announced in Ghana, that he will support nations which make democratic commitment, and shun other nations who do not, fine! So, what ever happened to unconditional talks with nations previously designated, rightly or wrongly, as enemies of America? Is this where candidate Obama meets President Obama in reality check? There is tyranny in Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and for some unstated reasons, other than known facts, Obama is not shunning these nations?

Obama seem to conflict, contradict and confuse his own policies! He visited Russia to ask for a reboot, reset of relations between America and Russia. He failed to criticize Russia’s corruption, Russian Mafia way of doing business through organized crime. Obama failed to criticize Prime Minister Vladmir Puttin’s self-succession, from president to prime minister while handpicking President Medvedev akin to former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo favoring President YarAdua to succeed him, but, at least in the case of Nigeria, Mr. Obasanjo has no official post or role in current Nigerian government!

It is okay to acknowledge the fact that Obama did put his undiplomatic foot in his mouth when flippant Obama tactlessly accused PM Puttin of have a foot in the past! But on the whole, while in Russia, Obama conducted himself in a very measured manner, nonetheless. Just as he faked neutrality in the post election protests in Iran. Obama seem to know when to wring his hands shyly, as when he gingerly begged Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu on Israel’s land-grab settlements in Palestine and Israel’s usurpation of political and economic oxygen in Palestine.

Let us repeat for emphasis here again, Obama did not visit Kenya, his ancestral homeland, nor visit South Africa and more importantly, Obama overlooked visiting Nigeria. He shunned these nations with commitment to democracy!

What commitment to democracy does Egypt and Saudi Arabia reminds anyone reading this of? These are the same nations which Obama visited during the preceding 30 days before his trip to Ghana! Egypt for instance, has a president for life, endorsed by every American president since Ronald Reagan, Hosni Mubarak has been president of Egypt since 1981. Under President Mubarak, Egypt has violently cracked down on political opposition and in particular, the Islamic Muslim Brotherhood. Mubarak has been extreme in his violent repressive measures, including detention without trial, and I guess this fit perfectly with America’s phobia for Islam? Detentions without trial in Guantanamo is really not different from detention without trial in Egypt or is it?

Anyone can say, arguably, that democracy is not perfect in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria and indeed, the rest of the world! I make bold to say that the imperfect democracy in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria, is better day compared with the non existence democracy night in say, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. When was the last election in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait? And when is the next election in both nations? Is Obama shunning these nations? Why isn’t he?

Looking at Obama, I can now say that the beautiful ones are not yet born!

Although the world wants Africa to be free and prosperous, why should America stop supporting it's own farmers/ranchers? Also, it seems pretty ironic that Obama is talking out against corruption, when he was elected because of one of the biggest voter frauds in American history (ACORN).

Nobama,

It is sad that people still believe that they have had something stolen from them, I understand your concerns and if the election would have been closer I would sympathetic toward you, but it was a landslide and Obama won get over it. If ACORN did something illegal then they should be punished, but Obama won lets celebrate that.

You are VERY misinformed! What voter fraud..I don't remember that happening ...9 years ago with Bush and Gore yes! Obama and McCain..NO..Barack Obama won the race fair and square.

Human history is a long story of competition for power. Tyranny has been the norm. Democracy is new and fragile and challenging to maintain - America is still struggling and when people power deflates from apathy that vacumn is quickly filled by corrupt power grabbers. It is a dynamic and ever changing process. Democracies need a solid foundation based on a moral culture. Brother Barack spoke with wisdom and common sense. He struck the right tone. It will ultimately be up to the African people and their chosen leaders to lead them back into the "promised land" of prosperity and freedom. President Obama is a great man! God Bless.

Come on Obama. Make it a serious crime punishable with a lengthy prison term to offer a bribe to any African politician, official, bureaucrat, cop, judge, etc. It's cold cash bribes from the rest of the world that are, generally speaking, responsible for the so-called African corruption problem. Bribes are used to cheaply mine resources (including oil and diamonds) without regard to the people or environment, sell weapons, and dump toxic waste across Africa and on its shores. Without outside bribes, Africa will quickly emerge as the prosperous continent it should already be. Obama and Western and Asian economic powers must pass anti-bribery legislation that carries a lengthy jail sentence for anyone, or firm, who uses bribes to rob Africa of its future.

Obama's utterances of trying to absolve the west of african problems are an insult to Africans who know their history very well unlike him.Despite his skin colour ,this guy is proving to be just like other arrogant,deceitful US presidents before him.He clearly needs to be educated about colonial legacies left by Europe in Africa which we are still suffering from to this day.Well meaning africans understand that Zimbabwe's problems are centered on the land issue and it's the west's racist refusal to accept this that it has dragged on up to now.Britain's new labour party in 1997 refused to honour its Lancaster house[1979] obligations of funding land redistribution and this sparked a nationwide revolution by landless peasants from 1998 to occupy white farms.This forced Zim gvt to call for a land reform donor conference that Britain, United States and the west refused to cooperate with,then President Mugabe had no choice but to compulsorily acquire land from white farmers.The west, led by Britain responded with a destabilization campaign using puppets,media campaign of lies,economic sanctions and subbotage inorder to effect a regime change and install a puppet regime subservient to their interests.Obama needs to stop talking nonsense because he will make a fool of himself.

The fact that to this day Britain has continued to reject its colonial obligations on land reform in zim inspite of a SADC summit in 2007 Dar es Salaam that called for them to accept it makes Obama a shallow,shameful figure who is seeking to defend an unrependant racist West that enslaved,raped,murdered africans, looted and plundered their continent.Land issue has continued to dominate Zimbabwe's political and economic situation because it's the core of the Zim's troubles.I bet ignorant Obama doesn't even know that people of Zim led by Cde Mugabe and Cde Nkomo took up arms to fight Ian Smith's oppressive racist regime so that they regain their land.Rightly thinking africans know that United States and the west never supported the Sadc mediation in Zim and they tried to destroy it.The socio-economic problems zim is facing today can be directly attributed to the illegal subbotage& economic sanctions imposed on innocent people because of the west's refusal to accept an african people's resolute decision to take back their land.

On the continent,the United States' CIA directly funded the civil war in DRC,Dhlakama's Renamo insurgency in Mozambique and Savimbi's Unita insurgency in Angola leading to massive destruction, poverty and economic ruin these countries are still facing today therefore for Obama to open his dirty mouth to absolve the west of problems in Africa is extremely offensive to africans who suffered from US sponsored civil wars.However africans are not blameless when it comes to issues like corruption,mismanagement,human rights bad governance that hinder their progress.As africans let's get rid of these ills inorder to develop economically,socially and politically.

Guess what? My President is trying to reach out to you and show some soladarity and you all want to reject that! He could be like the ast US presidents and say..forget ya..but instead he is trying to support you and let you know why you can't progress. After reading this and another African message board..I think he should just concentrate on American issues, as that is really why we elected him anyway!

President Obama knows very well what has happened in Africa. He knows that if you are naive enough continue letting corruption continue to strip Africa. The leaders are bad, it is like Africans only know how to kill each other and cry for help from the world. Don't you think that well developed countries are tired of bailing out countries who don't give a !@#* about their own. As a taxpayer, I get sick of it. It just seems as though Africa needs the excuses of colonialism and slavery to justify the fact that are still lame. From malaria to AIDS, no control and no care for your people. Just tribes and killings.

Same old same stereotypical platitudes that former Presidents Carter, Clinton and Bush gave at the same location that go nowhere beyond the “points of no return” of Goree Island or CC Castle. For the first Black President, one would think that he would be less of an “August tourist’ who breaks from the mold by been bold enough to admonish the modern-day plantation owners like Shell, Halliburton, Firestone, Anglo and Xstrata mining, etc. that keep encouraging the ills these Presidents’ speeches talk about. Whatever happens to calling a spade a spade? When it comes to corruption & dictatorship in Africa, it takes two to tango – from the givers to the takers, from the aiders and the abettors, from the African dictatorship and their Western backers, from the African Treasuries to the Western Banks where the loot and the identity of the looters are stashed. Africans know better than to believe these rigmaroles – we are just going along with the sad “tragic-come-drama” as if reading a very interesting novel - a saga that Stephen King could not write any better.

Home run. Talk, talk, talk, all of it old crap, and ghoulish, to boot.

It does take two to tango. And, Africans are silly to listen to lectures on corruption from the leader of the hegemon of financial, moral and political corruption; it took two to tango with the slave trade, colonialism, and now the era of "partnership."

Look, this talk of "partnership" is a lie. Only subststantive, not notional equals, can enter into partnerships.

Most African countries are in no position to partner with the financial elephants of the hegemon, which are supported by the wall street leaning, elite educated Obama. He has no choice, even if he were a hundred percent African. The system demands that financial capital run the show. And, financial capital can be vicious in defense of the buck.

Again, it is time that African youth 'kill' their fathers, these good for nothing bootlickers of the West.

This 'CUNNING LINGUIST', 'the OBAMA' proved again he knew nothing of the history of AFRICA or its peoples. SAME TIRED OLD ANALOGIES AND PLATITUDES. Why not criticize the continuing idolatry of a man who enslaved millions and made himself rich in the open-pit mines of Southern AFRICA - CECIL RHODES. Why do we give honor to this legendary slave-masterby awarding/celebrating RHODES SCHOLARS??? What a hypocrite this BARACH'incurably-dishonest'OBAMA has proved to us again!!! Why did he LIE by saying his mother met his KENYAN father at a civil-rights march in SELMA, ALABAMA, USA??? WAS HE ASHAMED OR EMBARASSED AT HOW THEY ACTUALLY MET??? 'the OBAMA' is out for himself - just look at the way he 'trashed' his friend+mentor the BLACK REV. WRIGHT. AFRICA does not need another dictator no matter how well spoken he is - only in english.

He bashed Rev. Wright because he is ignorant! He knew Obama was in an election and he continued to run his mouth! Obama did the right thing by slinging him aside!

Obamas visit to Africa is a significant historical event. He is half African, president of US and the most powerful man in the world. His achievements in Africa would not be as revolutionary as what he symbolises. He will make history. He has achieved more that any serious man could dream. He is on the top of the world but Africa wouldn’t.

Most Africans are delusional about how the relationship of Africa and Europe is and should be. Africans thinks shell or total or Anglo should voluntarily pay tax on moral ground, Europe should share their wealth with them and Europe should not exploit Africa or have an advantage over it on trade.

Perhaps they have not hard about competitive relationship between business and states and countries over countries. That what business do. They want to pay lower taxes and exploit workers. If one doesn’t understand that one most be delusional and Obama cannot do noting about it. If shell or Anglo comes to Africa and bribe Africans and exploit them who is stupid fool.

Why do you think slavery took place in Africa and not Asia or South America because African sold Africans to Europeans for the price of nothing but sugar. If Africans don’t want Europeans to mine their resources let them do it for them self but you know what they can’t do it. Their leaders don’t have the vision and creativity to do it.

Obamas visit to Africa is a significant historical event. He is half African, president of US and the most powerful man in the world. His achievements in Africa would not be as revolutionary as what he symbolises. He will make history. He has achieved more that any serious man could dream. He is on the top of the world but Africa wouldn’t.

Most Africans are delusional about how the relationship of Africa and Europe is and should be. Africans thinks shell or total or Anglo should voluntarily pay tax on moral ground, Europe should share their wealth with them and Europe should not exploit Africa or have an advantage over it on trade.

Perhaps they have not hard about competitive relationship between business and states and countries over countries. That what business do. They want to pay lower taxes and exploit workers. If one doesn’t understand that one most be delusional and Obama cannot do noting about it. If shell or Anglo comes to Africa and bribe Africans and exploit them who is stupid fool.

Why do you think slavery took place in Africa and not Asia or South America because African sold Africans to Europeans for the price of nothing but sugar. If Africans don’t want Europeans to mine their resources let them do it for them self but you know what they can’t do it. Their leaders don’t have the vision and creativity to do it.

President Obama's speech goes to the heart of the problem with Africa. The simple reason for the failure of Africa, to effectively and consistently confront and address internal and external constraints, is directly linked to the absence of institutional political maturity, and not lack, of political will as is often suggested. The solution is offered in the Article entitled, "African Union Constitutive Act: Blue Print to Cure the Problem with Africa", at http://atthecenter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A54A30E9975DD883!288.entry

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From the speech I was able to learn of his limited knowledge of how Africa got to where she is today.That colonialism should not be blamed for Africa,s woes today is absurd,how could he talk like someone who,s never done time reading about the ills and after effects colonialism brought to Africa? he needs help. The issue of SLAVE TRADE IS SO BIG THAT IF HE SOUGHT TO EXONERATE HIS CRIMINAL COUNTRY (USA) he did a bad job. Africa,s ills started right from when criminal invaders came from Europe and elsewhere to steal, kidnap,capture people to be made slaves in the Americas,he must go back to school (not the schools of lies) if he,s not yet conversant with what transpired then. He come,s to Accra talking about democracy as a yardstick for association with Africa govts, one tends to ponder, what sought of democracy operates in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, that he,s already visited and definitely associates with or is it that he looks down on Africans?. To some of us, the speech was mostly a continuation of imperialist tendencies toward Africa and we wholeheartedly reject it,He should be ashamed for coming to Africa to pour insults on us after all we,ve endured in this world of multiple lies.OBAMA has finally shown who he is and that,s how we,ll approach him.He had all the chance in the world to show he,s for the oppressed, he chose to blow it,good luck to him,we are not impressed.

It,s the Intellectuals, Stupid.

Lifting up successful models and encouraging effective governance can be better achieved if African leaders were "intellectuals" like Obama himself. In order to obtain Ghana's results, it is time to end the era of African Big Men, and to insert intellectual leaders like Ata Mills all over the continent.

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All African-Americans???

All might b well but will Genetically Modified food be an eventual problem for those who cannot afford to buy It?

I think this is another Michael Jackson act; that when MJ became successful - read accepted by the mainstream white community - he run away from his identity and seemed to be embarassed by his black African roots. Likewise Obama seems to be embarrassed by his African roots especially now how he is just going to make an inconvenient stop-over at Accra, Ghana after meeting and commensirating with the more important white European Superpower Russia.

Might as well stay away from Africa. It is a familiar movie: An African-American Embarassed with Non-European African Roots.

You are talking a lot of nonsense. What do you mean he is turning into another MJ? For your information Ghana is one of the very few countries in Africa that has a decent gov't and elected in a proper democratic way. Where do you want him to go first, like Ethiopia, who has one of the most tyrant prime ministers who is butchering people every day like most of the others. Good on you Barak, please give Ghana all the support it needs.

All Africans should thank Michael Jackson, over his career, he gave hungry, destitiute swollen belly babies over 500 million US dollars to help, more than the actual governments that call themselves in existence. Please you must be one of those dirty ARABS that say stupid things and kill people in the name of your GOD. Get a life

I think it's grossly unfair for Africans to critisize Obama saying that he is not proud of his African roots. Alot of us Africans have had to run away from Africa because ther is no hope for the future. After we attained independence in Zimbabwe, the Whitwe elite was replaced with a Black elite which is ruthless and busy looting all the wealth and sending away all the money to western counties which they pretend to critisise as imperialists. Ther is no hope for Africa with our current leaders. We can't even remove them from power using peaceful means. Is that something to be proud of?

yeah right

As a African-American, I am embarrassed by the contintent of Africa. As an American tax payer, My President, should just let you continue to rot and kill each other, and also to continue to let the western countries rape you of your natural resources. No drive, no ambition just AIDS and famine and malaria, a disease that has been damn near extinct for 40 years. How pitiful to think someone is embarrassed, he is! Don't forget it. Do something for yourselves, stop disrepecting women and putting up with frauds, especially Darfur, Somalia, and the ones we never hear about until they are starving!!!!!!

Your ignorance and blatant attempt to portray yourself as an African American is appalling for you might be black but not an African American, you sound much more like an old bootlicking apologist for you know nothing of your African history, you claim to be embarrassed of Africa because of its lack self dependancy, my friend what of the African American woes with the highest incarceration rates, low university retention rates etc...l;

More than likely your a white posing as a black trying to keep us Africans disunited and disenfranchised. You don't know the true power of the African, you'll soon see. And if your a black man you should know better thats why I question your ethnicity.

I am very proud to be an African-American. There is no portrayal. Trust it. Blatant is what you all need. You take a look around. My ancestors were sold by other Africans and to see the crap that you are used to makes me embarrassed. Forget about the my history, that does not pay the bills it is what is going on now- Slavery, AIDS, Malaria, No Electricity, No clean drinking water, no public school system. Just governmental officials that are robbing the people of their basic necessities. Too Ashamed of you to try to past judgement against the US. IF it weren't for the US YOU probably would not get your stipend of rice!!!!

@ kwells43 As you are embarassed of Africa then stop reading articles about Africa. The continent survived without your ancestors, it will survive without you. As for you tax money, the money is gone squandered by leaders your government armed with guns and weapons, deposited to private western accounts. Why are you blaming the poor people who do not have a voice? You are truely a dispicable human being to be ashamed of Africa based on the negative press your European / White masters have fed you!

anothermj-

Just for the record all African Americans do not run or hide or are embarrassed by their African roots, believe it or not many A/A live, work, visit, and have investments on the continent. Do not let the mainstream media dictate that we are all the same, just as all Europeans are not. The differences that divide us should be the strengths that unites us. In other words we should use our different cultures and experiences and turn them into strengths. We need make our people as a whole stronger, more educated and better leaders. We as a people must unite or our future is bleak.

That comment is so unfair and very ignorant..Barack was at the G8 Summit...We have to meet with the nations that have the means to actually attack the USA! Come on! Also, Michael Jackson had VITILIGO...which is a skin disease....It is proven...his dermatologist Arnold Klein admitted it years ago and again last week on Larry King Live!

Dkanela, contrary to what some people project about Michael Jackson, this man was as proud as any black person can be of his race. Yes, as it has already been stated, he DID have LUPUS which not only enhanced his baldness ( hence the wigs he wore ) but also manifesting itself as vertiligo which is a condition in which one's own immune system slowly attacks and kills the pigmentation of skin, as a black person, leaving one with black and white patches. There is no cure for this disease, and for Michael who was an entertainer constantly in the lime light, it was simply easier for his dermatologist to apply creams and speed up the disease so he does not go about his life looking like a leopard. As a black person he opened so many doors that were closed to the black community, gave millions to black causes and other charitable organizations that he has gone into the Guinness book of records for having given so much single handed.

DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA: IT'S TIME FOR A REFRESHER COURSE ON AFRICA

Gerald Caplan July 9, 2009.

President Obama is on his way to the small west African country of Ghana, his first official trip to Africa and, for obvious reasons, an historic one. In an interview this week, Obama, with no false humility, stated that "I'm probably as knowledgeable about African history as anybody who's occupied my office". No question. Still, the bar in that particular competition was not exactly set very high. And as the interview demonstrated, he's not nearly as knowledgeable as he thinks he is. Much of what he believes about Africa and how it can meet its many challenges is simply wrong.

In his interview with allAfrica.com, the President emphasized internal African causes for the continent's woes, highlighting especially the need for good governance and ending corruption. So he argues, for example, that "you're not going to get investment without good governance". That's simply wrong. For decades most foreign investment in Africa has gone to South Africa first, even under apartheid, and then to such oil-rich nations as Angola and Nigeria. In all cases, good governance played no role in investment decisions. Making an assured profit, regardless of the governance system, was the only criterion.

Similarly, Obama insisted that business won't invest where "government officials are asking for 10, 15, 25 percent off the top". That's an illogical assertion. If foreign business- men weren't only too eager to play the bribery game, those officials couldn't get away with demanding a cut off the top. Nigeria, Angola, South Africa, Kenya, Cameroon, Congo---everyone knows how to get a contract in these and other countries. Which also should remind us that high-level corruption in Africa couldn't and doesn't happen without western collaboration.

Obama says there is "a direct correlation between governance and prosperity". That's why he chose democratic Ghana for his first official state visit, rather than his father's country, Kenya. Heaven knows that the ruling parties in Kenya are brazenly corrupt and dedicated to little beyond enriching themselves and their supporters. Ghana, on the other hand, after years of bad governments following the CIA-backed coup that overthrew its first president, Kwame Nkrumah, can now be said to be fairly stable and democratic. Obama knows lots of interesting things. When his father left Kenya in the early 1960s to study in the USA, he noted, the GDP of Kenya was higher than that of South Korea; today, Korea is one of the world's great economic success stories, while Kenya languishes.

The UN's Human Development Index backs this up. In 2008, of 179 countries listed, Korea was ranked an impressive 25th while Kenya was 144th. But the President should look at these ratings more closely. Despite good governance, and though some real progress is being made, Ghana was ranked 142nd, virtually tied with Kenya among the bottom 20% of the world's nations. Something else must be going on here that accounts for this situation because Obama's analysis can't.

Here's the heart of his diagnosis,: While the international community "has not always been as strategic as it should have been [regarding Africa]…ultimately I'm a big believer that Africans are responsible for Africa…for many years we've made excuses about corruption or poor governance, that this was somehow the consequence of neocolonialism, or the West has been oppressive, or racist. I'm not a believer in excuses."

Well, this is partially true. Africans have for decades been betrayed by a veritable pageant of monstrous leaders. But another truth is that the United States actively backed almost all of them, and if the US didn't, France did; that's part of neocolonialism. The west also supplied many of the arms that were used in the appalling internal conflicts that have roiled Africa for so long. Even today, the US, Britain and France continue to remain close to many African leaders whose democratic credentials leave much to be desired.

The reality, rarely grasped, is that year after year far more of Africa's wealth and resources pour out of the continent to the rich world than the west provides Africa through all sources, from aid to investment to trade.

Beyond that, even if every African country was led by a saint, they could do nothing about the severe environmental and economic damage that global warming—for which Africa has no responsibility whatever—is inflicting across the continent.

Even the most exemplary African leaders could do nothing about the destructive impact on African development of the present world-wide economic crisis, for which Africa has no responsibility whatever.

No African leader has the slightest influence on the drastic increase in food prices that is causing such suffering, including outright starvation, to millions of Africans.

Even a continent of Mandelas couldn't change the massive subsidies that western governments provide to their agribusinesses. When they're in Ghana, the Obamas should do some comparison shopping. They may be taken aback to find that it costs more to buy a locally-bred chicken than a subsidized one that's been shipped frozen all the way from Europe.

And nothing can be done about the enormous damage already done to Africa by the destructive neoliberal policies that were imposed on African governments by the World Bank and IMF over the past 30 years. Even today, while their rhetoric has changed, these institutions, deeply American-influenced, continue to insist on discredited policies that have failed to promote growth while vastly increasing inequality.

I documented this case in a book published last year, The Betrayal of Africa. It demonstrates the twin burdens that actually account for Africa's condition--their own wretched leaders combined with destructive western policies and practices. I know the President is a pretty busy guy, but it's a short book and he clearly enjoys reading and learning. Unless he learns what's really going on in Africa, his administration will become yet another in an endless line that has caused Africa more grief than good.

Rubbish...Simply because aid was given to dubiuos people before does not mean that should always be the case. Countries like Zimbabwe for instance should forget any help until Mugabe and his cronies go....Selfishj thieves...Ruthless murderers...

Please neligo stop playing nonsensical rubbish about Zim. Any smaller economy can be suffocated when uncle Sam pulls a plug on the breton Woods. If a small economy (ZIM)is not allowed to trade and compete in a wider global commerse by - guess who? then the results are calamous. Zim has done a lot to pull through without trading with traditional partners for ten years although negative effects are enevitable. There are no guns blazing in ZIM even with a coerced economy. After 52 years Ghana may have little to show as compared to ZIM's 20 years literacy and infrustructure. We are all Africans with unique problems caused by a common enemy. Fighting each other makes the insatiable resourse mongers happy - let us unite in trade and dictate prices on our resources and stop being lectured by the west in whatever shipskin.

Right minded Africans will salute Obama's visit as an important land mark in the history of Africa.His tough talk hit the nail on the head.Obama isn't just a US president visiting Africa.He is an agent of change that shock the entire world with his election.We Africans have a choice;to fight for change or to continue with the status quo.We can't keep on blaming the west for the ills that are perpetrated in our continent.We keep giving tyrannic regimes a reason to hang on in power thereby pushing the youths to seek solace in the diaspora.We have a responsibility to clean our image in the world.Africans have far been seen as 419ners,drug pushers,cheats,scammers.Afew individuals have actually tarnished our image.We are being vigorously scrutinized everywhere in this world.it's time we stand up ,clean this mess and shape our destiny.

I can't believe the U.S. government still supports the transitional government in Somalia. That is such a joke. Somalia's government was the most stable it had been in years before we went in there on trumped up charges and created chaos with the Ethiopians. Also, Carson is on the wrong side of Nigeria as well. When oil workers in the Delta are making less than a dollar a day while Exxon-Mobile profits in the tens of billions of dollars, it is damned hard not to root for the underdog. I can't believe he didn't address the gripping poverty and corruption which has caused this mess. I won't buy a drop of gasoline from any American oil company because of their usufruction of the Delta.

Sorry to say but I don't if your boycott of Exxon-Mobile makes a huge difference! Americans drive HUGE gas guzzling SUV's and we STILL drive ALOT even when the price of oil goes up...so trust me..EXXon's profit probably comes primarily from the USA alone! No if Americans STOP driving so much then they WOULD listen!

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i would like to take this opportunity to welcome barack and michelle to africa. welcome home!

In a symphony.

In the light of a symphony there's a charming intention, and also that fortune; there's a little desire and the sound of a beautiful noise....

Francesco Sinibaldi

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This article by Mr. Cobbs sounds like a good article, which focuse on human rights.But, in Africa this single handed approach has not worked. Typically aid is cut off and a lot of sanction imposed. What is improving good governance in Africa seems to be economic development and trade. That is the new modern way to improve good governance. Other wise, it just becomes an endless debate about human rights, and actually this single approach has worsened human rights in Africa. Where the Chinese have invested heavily in Africa, typically human rights have improved also.

Look at Sudan where the focus has entirely been n human rights,no improvements have been seen. The African Union saw his and oppossed the international community on impossing additional sanctions and prosecution. The approach being suggested, actually does not improve human rights. The Punishment on Zimbabwe did nothing to promote human rights or good governance.

The last sentence confirms my suspicion of empty rhetorics when Carson concluded, in effect, that ‘Other visits to Africa are likely… either on the way to, or coming from, other parts of the world” which can be interpreted that Africa is just an afterthought to this administration on his way to a more important parts of the world. How insulting can he get? Why can't Africa be a destination, for a change, instead of a stepping stone? Condoleezza Rice’s Africa Policy for the Bush administration is by far more robust than this one. Ali Mazrui said it best in his observation of this administration when he posited, “when faced with a dilemma between helping Kenya and helping Bangladesh, Obama may feel compelled to help Bangladesh as a poorer and more deserving supplicant for American aid. Would Africa have been better off if Hillary Clinton had been elected President of the US instead of Barack Obama?” Go figure.

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Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 35 - 37

35: A sword is upon the Chaldeans, the inhabitants of Babylon, her princes, and her wise men; says the LORD.

36: A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote. A sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

37: A sword is upon their horses, chariots, and upon ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE that are in the midst of her; they shall become as women. A sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE – What Nation Has More Different Cultures Than America ?

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I believe Africa doesnt necessarily need to get on the President Obama agenda but on Gods agenda for their continent.His is found in the Authorized King James Holy Bible of 1611. His preserved word for all English speaking peoples as well other accurate translations for other nations.In America Mr.Obama is not totally for freedom of speech or religion such as in the supposed fairness or collectiveism debates.But true liberty is found in the truth of Gods word,the truth shall set you free,The LORD Jesus Christ.He also said I am the way,the truth and the life;no man cometh unto the father,but by me.Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved,and thy house.(Acts16:31).Read also John3 and Romans10.

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People are commenting on serious subjects here. This is not the place to promote your mythology.

This article keeps silent over the gamble by Mugabe that Obama could never be elected US President. Developments unfurling thereafter made Mugabe capitulate to reality that Obama in the White House would send him to the ICC unless he forged a GNU!

It is not Mugabe's patriotism; it is rather his devillish instinct of survival that brought about the GNU with the Damocles dagger of Obama hanging over Mugabe's head.

Getting rid of dictator Mugabe and his corrupt cronies will definitely be one of the priorities of Obama's administration. It will thus be a strong signal to African politicians in general to ensure rule of law and transparency in government. Otherwise, the tap will be closed. And the US administration will chose to work with NGOs to reach commoners and privilege the funding of micro projects.

Those who will still cling to the brutalisation of their citizens just to keep power at all costs will meet the same fate reserved to El-Bashir - going straight to the ICC.

Mugabe is caught with his pant down with Obama in the White House! It is being alleged that he is already negotiating with the Chinese for privileged political asylum for himself and some dozens of his cronies. The Chinese are more attracted by the few billions of US$ that Mugabe is promising to deposit in Chinese banks! All illegally acquired.

There are rumours as well that Mugabe has given a firm promise to the US administration that he will retire from politics following fresh elections - something that the US administration is taking with a pinch of salt!

In any case, Mugabe can only lick the boots of the SA government, the go-between, to save himself from the rash of the Black causus over the continued suffering of Zimbos!

Of course Africa should be on Obama's agenda. First of all, God has a very poor track record in Africa. So much so, that Sudan alone proves that there is not an all powerful and all good supreme being. And that is to say nothing of 200 years of exploitation and gross atrocities in the Congo.

To get back to Obama, when we screw over countries as badly as we have such as Somalia, we owe it to them to try to fix the mess. Not to mention the fact that we import so much of our raw resources from Africa. We get copper from Zambia, bauxite from Ghana, and of course, child slavery produced chocolate from the Ivory Coast. How in the world can we not have an Africa policy?

Mr. Barack Obama dream come truth when mine as not each started. But I admire is sense of leadership and inspiration as well as challenges in brought to our generation.

I have been inspired to his way of seeing live and suggesting the way forward. I believe that his 8 years in the office will change alot in America foreign affairs in Africa and Arab world.

I believe also, he will still chosing hope over fear when is making decision on the matter on the war in Africa.

I salut his presidency and wish him good luck as he lead us in this journey of change.

President Hussein Barack Obama has left no stone unturn,unlike his predecessor who, in most of his speeches, used the word ´´Terrorism``and whether you are with us or with the terrorists makes many people say if the US foreingn policy doesnot change,there will always be hatred against them. Indeed,President Obama has made it very clear,the US is ready to work with many nations around the world,but he failed to mention the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine which is the key factor of breeding more terrorism in the world.However,he has pledged to lift the American people from poverty and improve the standard of education in the country by creting jobs and less dependent on oil from the Middle East and fight climate change.All eyes are now upon him if he will be capable of fulfilling his promises as he is not a Messiah.He also pledge to a mutual understanding and respect with the Muslim world.He has just started one of his top priorities by putting a halt to the Guantanmo Bay trials of the 9/11 culprits.A good start anyway. May be the bringing back home of the US troops from Iraq and restore peace in Afhganistan will be welcomed,but I advise him not to increase troops into a country that has known wars for over 30years now.Obama is a beakon to our African leaders who donot want to relinquish power easyly unless they are either forced out through coup D'etat or they finally kick the bucket.

God Bless America!!! Good luck and God's speed to President Obama!!!!

As an American I can tell you it's infuriating reading these comments. Let's get one thing straight. America never did any harm to your continent. Don't categorize us with the Europeans who DID colonize you. America has never done a thing to you, in fact millions of our tax dollars to go feed you and buy your medicine for HIV and you are incredibly ungracious about it. Now Obama will double the aid to Africa as he promised and you will still point fingers at us when it is China that will be your biggest threat in the future. Stop making excuses for yourselves. You cannot do anything about the past but you certainly can do something about your future if you stop the crying game and refuse to be victims.

Jade406, you hit the nail on the head. Well said.

OBAMA DECEPTIONS

Matthew 24:4 “ Take Precautions Against Being Tricked By Anyone ” – [Paraphrased] * Unless They’re Likeable ?

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BY PEACE SHALL Many Be deceived (Daniel 8:25) .

DOES THE TERM PEACEKEEPERS ring a Bell ?

Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the

United Nations PEACEKEEPERS .

President Obama’s UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE cut her teeth on

the RWANDA MASSACRE…. OOOPs!!! She said.

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AMERICA IS THE WHORE OF BABYLON : Revelations 17 & 18 AND Jeremiah 50 & 51

HERE ARE SOME KEY POINTS :

Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 8 - 9

8: Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks. 9: For, behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon AN ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. . [ Their will be an exodus of nations leaving America ; returning to their ancestral homes e.g. Black Africans to nations like Ghana, Sierra Leone, etc…] [ .Get out of New Babylon America !!! ]

[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 16 16: Cut off the sower from Babylon ;and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest .For fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

[ 2 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 6

6: Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul. Be not cut off in her iniquity. For this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render to her a recompence.

[ 3 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 9 9: We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country. For her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 35 - 37

35: A sword is upon the Chaldeans, the inhabitants of Babylon, her princes, and her wise men; says the LORD. 36: A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote. A sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. 37: A sword is upon their horses, chariots, and upon ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE that are in the midst of her; they shall become as women. A sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE – What Nation Has More Different Cultures Than America ?

Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 7 7: Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand; that made all the earth drunken. The nations have drunk of her wine. Therefore the nations are insane.

10: The LORD has brought forth our righteousness. Come, and let us declare in Zion (our souls) the work of the LORD our God. [ Zion = The Kingdom of Heaven which is within us..within our souls ]

[ This same spirit of the Medes ( Arabs)…is against New Babylon (Anerica) ]

[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 11 11: Make bright the arrows; gather the shields. The LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

[ 2 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 27 - 28

27: Set you up a standard in the land. Blow the trumpet among the nations. Prepare the nations against her. Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz. Appoint a captain against her. Cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- These three(3) kingdoms today are : a) Ararat - (Armenia / Turkey) b) Ashchenaz – ( ? ) c) Minni – Armenia These kingdoms are (Arabic ) Medes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- 28: Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains, all the rulers of it, and all the land of his dominion.

[ The people will stop immigrating to America; once the word gets out of her impending doom ]

[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 44 -45

44: And I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 45: My people, go you out of the midst of her, and deliver you every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

[ a) For Two(2) years shall the people [ still here ( in America) ] hear rumors b) Civil Wars will break out before the final day of America’s destruction

[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 46

46: And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land. A rumour shall both come one year. And after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land; ruler against ruler. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------

REVELATIONS 17 & 18 : Also witnesses to Babylon’s destruction

OUR DEEPEST FEAR By Marianne Williamson

Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light , Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.

We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, And Fabulous ?

Actually Who Are We Not To Be ? You Are A Child Of God.

Your Playing Small Doesn’t Serve The World.

There Is Nothing Enlightened About Shrinking So That Other People Won’t Feel Insecure Around You.

We Are All Meant To Shine, As Children Do.

We Were Born To Make Manifest The Glory Of God That Is Within Us.

It’s Not Just In Some Of Us; It’s In Everyone.

And When We Let Our Own Light Shine We Unconsciously Give Other People Permission To Do The Same.

And As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our Presence Automatically Liberates Others

[NOTE – BEING AFRAID AND REFUSING TO GET INVOLVED WON’T STOP US FROM DYING. BUT BEING AFRAID CAN PREVENT US FROM LIVING]

(Nkosi Sikeleli Africa )

God bless Africa May her glory be lifted high Hear our petitions .

God bless us, Your children God we ask You to protect our nation Intervene and end all conflicts Protect us, protect our nation, our nation.

From the blue of our heaven, From the depths of our sea, Over our eternal mountain ranges, Where the cliffs give answer.

Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.

[Enoch Mankayi Sontonga]

WAKE UP ! STAY UP MY BROTHERS & SISTERS ! BE SELF-SUFFICIENT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

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- Life Is a Game. Have Fun. [ Luke 18:17 / Isaiah 11:6 ]

MATTHEW 10:26 DON’T BE AFRAID OF THEM, FOR THERE IS NOTHING COVERED THAT WON’T BE REVEALED AND THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN THAT WON’T BE KNOWN.

Remember the 120 ! in the Upperroom, Gideon’s 300, One(1) believer can chase 1,000 demons & Two (2) can make 10,000 run .

How many will 1 million chase ?

Here’s An abbreviated Spirit Bomb prayer that I’d like for us to say to God The Creator Of All :

OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN , HOLY IS YOUR NAME, YOUR KINGDOM COME , YOUR WILL BE DONE, IN EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN .

- In Jesus Name We Pray – Amen

Pray twice per day once around sunset & once around sunrise .

Have prayer lists which include Family, Christians, Truthseekers ,& Worthy Causes , etc…

SOME OF OUR LEADERS ARE UNDER DEMONIC INFLUENCE , SOME OF OUR

WORLD IS UNDER THE SAME,. OUR UNITED , CONSISTENT, CONTINUOUS

PRAYERS WILL HELP US TO SEE THROUGH JESUS’ EYES. REMEMBER , HE’S

THE HEAD, WE HAVE NO EYES, EARS, NOSE, MOUTH, ETC..WITHOUT THE

HEAD. THAT IS WHY WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT, SOUND, TASTE

OR ANY OTHER NATURAL DISTRACTION. WE ARE SPIRITUAL WARRIORS !!!

Make a Habit Of Praying Twice a Day (Sunset / Sunrise). Have A Daily Prayer, Weekly

Prayer , Monthly Prayer, even Yearly Prayer ; keeping persons, organizations and causes

in mind that you’d like to pray for at these intervals of time ( Daily-Weekly-Monthly-

Yearly).

Some prayer list suggestions –

(DAILY PRAYER LIST ) -

Christian & Natural Family -

TOP-PRIORITY Persons, Causes & Oragnizations

(WEEKLY PRAYER LIST ) -

MID-LEVEL Persons, Causes & Oragnizations

(MONTHLY PRAYER LIST ) -

- Persons, Causes & Oragnizations ( For Example – Heads Of Countries)

(YEARLY PRAYER LIST ) -

LOWER LEVEL - Persons, Causes & Oragnizations

[God Bless You Readers To Want To Know And Seek To Know The Truth] - MAY GOD BE A HAVEN OF PEACE IN OUR TIME OF TROUBLE --

[This inspiring poem was featuring in the movie “Coach Carter ”]

Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light , Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.

We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, And Fabulous ?

Actually Who Are We Not To Be ? You Are A Child Of God.

Your Playing Small Doesn’t Serve The World.

There Is Nothing Enlightened About Shrinking So That Other People Won’t Feel Insecure Around You.

We Are All Meant To Shine, As Children Do.

We Were Born To Make Manifest The Glory Of God That Is Within Us.

It’s Not Just In Some Of Us; It’s In Everyone.

And When We Let Our Own Light Shine We Unconsciously Give Other People Permission To Do The Same.

And As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our Presence Automatically Liberates Others

- Marianne Williamson -

[NOTE – BEING AFRAID AND REFUSING TO GET INVOLVED WON’T STOP US FROM DYING. BUT BEING AFRAID CAN PREVENT US FROM LIVING]

(Nkosi Sikeleli Africa )

God bless Africa May her glory be lifted high Hear our petitions .

God bless us, Your children God we ask You to protect our nation Intervene and end all conflicts Protect us, protect our nation, our nation.

From the blue of our heaven, From the depths of our sea, Over our eternal mountain ranges, Where the cliffs give answer.

Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.

[Enoch Mankayi Sontonga]

[http://www.infowars.com/infowars.asx] / [gcnlive.com] / [http://alexjonesringtones.net/]

WAKE UP ! STAY UP MY BROTHERS & SISTERS ! BE SELF-SUFFICIENT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

- Life Is a Game. Have Fun. [ Luke 18:17 / Isaiah 11:6 ]

As the first American Black President with ancestral linkage to Africa and his growing up experience in America as an African American, Obama has the vantage point of speaking genuinely from the heart to his African audience in Accra, Ghana.

He has clearly presented what Africans (especially, African leaders) can do to position the continent on the path to progress. The to-do list includes two important elements among others: 1. eradication of corruption and 2. ethnic conflicts.

Africa has enough resources still left untapped in spite of the fact that colonialists raped the continent of most of its natural resources to enrich their nations and people(s) at the expense of the Africans.

We must not continue to duel on the past and blame the colonial masters for ever, since what happened then cannot be changed just as we cannot bring back the dead to life. My heart bleeds even more, when the rapists of African recourses today are some Africans themselves, especially the leaders of various countries in Africa. Their shameless and heartless looting of the national treasurries to stash away their billions in foreign financial institutions, constitutes treasons and ant- progress. I can pardon the colonialists, but I cannot forgive some of our African leaders for what they have done to reduce Africa, the once cradle of civilization, to a continent of poverty, hunger, illnesses.

Therefore, when President Barack Obama referred to corruption and ethnic conflicts as the key impediments to progress in Africa, I think he is speaking the genuine truth from his heart. The “future of Africa is in the hands of Africans” and it is for us Africans to change Africa for the better.

Iidio, well said.

It is refreshing to know that Africans realize the truth and not be angry with someone other than themselves to speak upon it. I hope you and others in Africa make strides to make the continent great. As a African-America, when trying to trace heritage, it so hard to do when you do not know where you come from and because of slavery, most of us will never know.

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COMPREHENSIVE REPARATIONS - White Europeans need spiritual reparations

- Black Africans need spiritual & financial reparations

A. Appendix of Uncle Tom's Cabin Lists Companies who engaged in slavery

B. NAACP & Black African Newspapers - records & details of lynchings

1. Post Emancipation Slavery Cases (Convict Labor System Continues) via Modern Slavery Owners –

2. Prison Stock Wall Street

3. No Statute of Limitations on Murder ;[ LYNCHINGS ]

BOOKNOTES FROM THE BOOK (and other sources) “ 100 YEARS OF LYNCHING “ BY RALPH GINZBURG

[A – H victims ] - THEIR LOCATIONS & DATES

* Henry Askew – Mississippi City, MS June 10, 1900

* Walter Allen – Rome, GA Apr 1, 1902

* Herman Arthur (1892) – Hodge’s Farm - Paris, TX July 6, 1920

* Irving Arthur (1901) – Hodge’s Farm - Paris, TX July 6, 1920

* Charles Atkins (1907) – Davisboro , GA May 18, 1922

* Henry Argo (1911) – Chickasha , OK May 31, 1930

* George Armwood (1909) – Princess Anne, MD Oct 18, 1933

* Will Burks (1881) – Greenwood,SC Feb 18, 1900

* James Bailey – Lake Cormorant, TX July 15, 1914

* Jeff Brown – Cedar Bluff, MS Apr 1, 1916

* Cleveland Butler – Dublin, GA July 2, 1919

* Will Brown – Omaha, NE Oct, 1919

* William Bowles – Eagle Lake, FL ????????

* Jake Brooks – Oklahoma City, OK Jan 17, 1922

* Parks Banks – Yazoo City, MS Aug 22, 1922

* Albert Blades – Osceola, AR June 2, 1926

* Willie Bryan (1906) – Darien, GA Sept 10, 1930

* Norris Bendy – Clinton, SC July 5, 1933

* Richard Coleman (1879) – Maysville, KY Dec 6, 1899

* Elijah Clark (1880) – Huntsville, AL June 23, 1900

* Ballie Crutchfield – Nashville, TN March 16, 1901

* Dusty Crutchfield - Hamilton, GA Jan 23, 1912

* Eugene Carter – Pierce City, MO Aug 10, 1901

* Tom Clark – Corinth,MS Sept 28, 1904

* Luther Colbert & His Wife– Eastland Plantation - Doddsville, MS July 7, 1914

* William Carr – Planquemines, LA March 17, 1906

* James Comeaux – Jennings, LA Aug 28, 1913

* Henry Crosby – Parkinsville, KY Sept 21, 1913

* Mary Conley – Arlington, GA Oct 4, 1916

* Lloyd Clay (1895) – Jackson, MS June 4, 1919

* Eli Cooper – Eastman, GA - Burned Lodges & Churches too Aug 29, 1919

* Dallas Cooksey – Johnson City, TN Oct 28, 1920

* “Shap” Curry (1896) – King Ranch - Kirvin, TX May 6, 1922

* John Cornish (1903) – King Ranch - Kirvin, TX May 6, 1922

* Samuel Carter (1877) – Bronson, FL - This actual lynching was depicted In the movie “Rosewood “ Jan 4, 1923

* Lindsay Coleman – Nicholas Plantation - Clarksdale, MS Dec 19, 1928

* Henry Choate (1909) – Columbia, TN Nov 12, 1927

* Cord Cheeck (1913) – Columbia, TN Dec 15, 1933

* John Criggs (ca. 1904) – Newton, TX - Worked At Box Factory June 21, 1934

* Richard Dickerson – Springfield, OH Feb 7, 1904 ?

* Jim Durfee – Angleton , TX Oct 14, 1914

* Frank Dodd – DeWitt, AR Oct 9, 1914

* George Dorsey (1919) & Wife - Monroe, GA July 27, 1946

* Charles Evan – Norway, SC July 2, 1903

* Ruben Elrod – Piedmont, SC July 2, 1903

* Warren Eton – Monroe, LA Oct 22, 1913

* Charles Fisher – Marshall, TX April 29, 1914

* John Foreman + 1 / - Nowata, OK Sept 30, 1916

* Jim Fox – Louisville, MS June 13, 1927

* Mark Fox – Louisville , MS June 13, 1927

* Gulley (whole name unkown) – Pierce City, MO Aug 10, 1901

* Richard Galloway + 1 / Beaumont, TX June 6, 1913

* Wilson Gardner – Birmingham, AL Aug 25, 1913

* Willie Green – Cowards, SC Dec 6, 1914

* Ernest Glenwood ? – Americus, GA Oct 3, 1919

* Philip Gathans ? – Rincon, GA June 21, 1920

* George Gay (1897) – Fairfield, TX Dec 14, 1922

* George Grant – Darien, GA Sept 10, 1930

* David Gregory – Beaumont, TX Dec 8, 1933

* Sam Holt – Newman, GA Apr 23, 1899

* Belle Hathaway – Hamilton, GA Jan 23, 1912

* Eugene Hamming – Hamilton, GA Jan 23, 1912

* Hammet, Jess ? – Vivian, LA Aug 26, 1916

* George Holden – Monroe, LA May 1, 1919

* Robert Hicks (1896) – Lake Village, AR Nov 29, 1921

* Len Hart (1889) – Jacksonville, FL Aug 25, 1913

* George Hughes (1889) – Sherman, TX May 10, 1930

* Ellwood Higginbotham – Oxford, MS Sept 18, 1935

[I – Q victims ] - THEIR LOCATIONS & DATES

* Ron Jacobs– Tylertown, Mississippi - Nov 10, 1920

* Henry Jacobs– Tylertown, Mississippi - Nov 23, 1920

* Richard James – Versailles, KY Mar 13, 1921

* Moses Jones – King Ranch, Kirvin, TX May 6, 1922

* Joe Love – Clarksdale, MS June 9, 1934

* Wesley Johnson – Montgomery, AL June 4, 1937

* Ray Newsome –H.A. Woods Farm–Pinetta, FL Oct 1, 1921

* Nash Nelson (1909) –Ringgold, LA Feb 20, 1933

* Andrew McCloud (1908) – Bastrop, LA July 9, 1934

* Claude Neal (1911) – Marianna, FL Oct 27, 1934

* “Bootjack” McDaniels – Duck Hill, MS Apr 14, 1937

* Wilder McGowan (1914) – Wiggins, MS Nov 22, 1938

* Roger Malcolm (1919) & His Wife – Monroe, GA July 27, 1916

Warren ? (1906) – New Dacus, TX June 24, 1922

An African American - Pilot Point, TX Dec 29, 1922

Clarence ? – Aiken, SC Oct 8, 1926

Bertha ? – Aiken, SC Oct 8, 1926

Demon ? – Aiken, SC Oct 8, 1926

Willie Kirkland – Magnolia Gardens, GA Sept 25, 1936 ?

??? - Ninety-Six, SC Oct 9, 1933

Wylie McNeely (1902) – Leesburg, TX Oct 11, 1921

John Peterson – Demark, SC – ca. 1899

F.D. McLand - Shreveport, LA – June 19, 1901

John Pennington – Enterprise, AL – August 7, 1901

Pierce City African Americans –Pierce City, MO –August 20,1901

Dudley Morgan – Lansing, TX – May 22, 1902

Ed Johnson – Knoxville, TN – March 19, 1906

Judge James – Pine Bluff, AR – March 26, 1910

15–20 Negroes –Slocum-Denisons Springs-Palestine,TX7/31/1910

Honea Path – Augusta, GA – November 13, 1916 ?

John Moore – Hamilton, GA – January 23, 1912

Tom Miles – Shreveport, LA – April 9, 1912

A/A Man – Jackson, GA – May 4, 1912

Willis Perkins – Sheffield, AL – Sept, 1912

Walter Johnston – Princeton, WVA – September 7, 1912

???? Perrys – Marshall, TX – February 27, 1913

Joe & John Perry – Henderson, NC – March 12, 1913

Richard Puckett – Laurens, SC – August 12, 1913

Lige Lane – Clinton County, GA – 1913

Charley Jones – Groveton, GA – May 8, 1914

Watson Lewis – Sylvester, GA? – December 13, 1914

Felix Lake – Sylvester, GA - January 22, 1916

Frank Lake – Sylvester, GA - January 22, 1916

Dewer Lake – Sylvester, GA - January 22, 1916

Major Lake – Sylvester, GA - January 22, 1916

Oscar Martin – Idabel, OK – April 4, 1916

Two A/As – Paducah, KY – October 16, 1916

Will Powell – Montgomery, AL – July 25, 1917

Jesse Powell – Montgomery, AL – July 25, 1917

Ell Persons – Memphis, TN – May 18, 1917

Jim McIlherron – Estill Springs, TN – February 13, 1918

William Little – Blakely, GA – April 4, 1919

[R – Z (victims ] - THEIR LOCATIONS & DATES

Wells, George – Weir City, KS – October 30, 1899

Rice, Louis – Ripley, TN – March 24, 1900

Russ, Ed – Mississippi City, MS – June 10, 110

Sanders, John + (1?) – Sneads, FL – June, 1900

Reid, George – Rome, GA – January 4, 1900

Ward, George – Terre Haute, IN – February 27, 1900

Smith, Frank “Prophet”- Shreveport, LA – June 19, 1901

Wyatt, David S, - Belleville, IL – June 8, 1900

White, George F. – Wilmington, DE – June 20, 1903

Steers, Jennie – Beard Plantation/Shreveport, LA- July 27, 1903

A/A Residents – Whitesboro , TX – August 12, 1904

Winters, John – Eastland Plantation/Doddsville, MS –Feb 7, 1904

A/A Residents – Springfield, OH – February 9, 1904

Nine (9) A/As – St. Charles , AR – March 25, 1904

Richardson, Grant – Braehead, AL – October 13, 1910

Verge , Sam – Demopolis, AL – August 4, 1911

Qualken, Zachariah – Coatesville, PA – August 14, 1911

Rufficant , ? – Wetumpka, AL – November 11, 1912

Ricker, David (1883) –Houston, TX – February 8, 1913

Williams, Andrew – Houston, TX – February, 1913

Tyson, Charles (secret lynching) – Shreveport, LA – 2/16/1913

Redding , William (4 wounded) –Americus, GA – June 21, 1913

Swanson, Virgil – Greenville , GA – August 27, 1913

Scott, Marie – Muskogee, OK – March 13, 1914

Sullivan, Fred & Wife – Byhalia, MS – November 25, 1914

Reed, Young – Cedar Keys, FL – February 26, 1915

Sheffield , Caesar – Lake Park, GA – April 17, 1915

Wilton, Mallie? – Dresden, TN – September 8, 1915

Stevenson, Cordelia – Columbus, MS – December 18, 1915

Wasshington, Jesse – Waco, TX - May 15, 1916

Smith, Bert – Goose Creek, TX - October 12, 1917

Washington, Berry – Eastman, GA – May, 1919

Scott, Henry – Atlantic Coastline R/R , FL – May 8, 1920

Roach, Edward (1896) – Durham, NC – July 8, 1920

Roland, Jim – Camillia, GA – February 13, 1921

Slater, Phil (1871) – Monticelle, AR – March 17, 1921

Smith, Leroy (1907) – McGhee, AR – May 27, 1921

Williams, John Henry – Moultrie, GA – June 20, 1921

Winn, Alexander – Coolidge, TX – August 16, 1921

Wothfield, Jerome – Winstron, NC – August 18, 1921

Turner, Will – Helena, AR – November 19, 1921

Rouse, Fred – Armour Packing – Ft. Worth, TX – Dec 12, 1921

Thomas , Jesse + 1 - Waco, TX – May 27, 1922

West, John – Hope, AR – July 28, 1922

Wright, Charles – Perry, FL – September 14, 1922

Young, Albert – Perry, FL – September 14, 1922

Scott, James T. – Columbia, MO – April 29, 1923

Warner, Lloyd – St. Joseph, MO – November 29, 1933

Thomas, Isaac – Clarksdale, MS – June 9, 1934

Sanders, James (1909) – Bolton, MS – July 16, 1934

Young, Ab – Slayden, MS – March 12, 1935

Tyrone, R.J. – Hattiesburg, MS – April 24, 1935

Shaw, Lint (1891) – Colbert, GA – April 28, 1934

Townes, Roosevelt – Duck Hill, MS – October 14, 1934

Williams, A.C. – Quincy, FL – 1934?

VICTIMS , THEIR LOCATIONS & DATES

* UNKNOWN AFRICAN AMERICANS LYNCHED *

- 1 Person - Eastman, GA Sept 11, 1903

- 3 Persons – Doddsville, MS Feb 7, 1904

- 4 Persons – Dady, FL (Also many A/As left town) Aug 4, 1910

- 2 Persons – Hartwell, GA (1 beaten) Jan 3, 1916

- 6 Persons - Blakely, GA (Also Lodge & Church Burned) Jan 3, 1916

* An African-American R/R Porter – Atlantic Coastline R/R (FL) May 8, 1920

[As pay got better for R/R workers, many A/As Were terrorized or killed – Hence we now have mostly White Railroad Workers]

* Joe “Pop” – Omaha, NE Oct 10, 1891

* Ed _____ - Black River Section Of Williamsburg County Jan 13, 1927

* [Unknown] – Columbus, MS July 22, 1933

* [Unknown] – Franklinton, LA Jan 11, 1933

* [Unknown ] – Savannah, GA – March 30, 1902

Unknown – Wetumpka, AL – November 11, 1912

A/A Woman – Wagner, OK – April, 1914

Sea????, ____- Sylvester, GA – January 22, 1916

One(1) A/A - Stuttgart, AR – Late August , 1916

A/A Brakeman Yazoo & MS Valley R/R - March 17, 1921

_____, Albert - Perry, FL – September 14, 1922

Unknown – Streetman, TX – December 11, 1922 Swa???, Henry – Palm Beach , FL – Circa 1923

MOBS OUT OF CONTROL

Places ,Dates & Estimates of the total crowd(s)

STATE CITY/COUNTY DATE CROWD

ALABAMA Huntsville 7/23/1900 1,500 Montgomery 5/22/? 1,500

ARKANSAS Nodema 1/27/1921 500 Texarkana 7/28/1922 100

DELEWARE Wilmington 6/22/1903 2,000

FLORIDA Marianna 10/27/1934 7,000

GEORGIA Newman 4/23/1899 2,000 Rome 1/3/1901 150 Rome 4/1/1902 4,000 Hamilton 1/23/1912 100 Eastman 7/14/1901 50 Americus 6/21/1913 500 Rincon 6/21/1920 5,000 Davisboro 5/18/1922 200 Royston 4/28/1936 100

KENTUCKY Maysville 12/7/1899 2,000 Versailles 3/13/1921 50

LOUISIANA Shreveport 6/19/1901 200 Shreveport 8/26/1916 1,000 Sylvester 12/12/1914 200 Bastrop 7/9/1934 3,000 Ringgold 3/1/1933 1,500

MARYLAND Princess Anne 10/18/1933 3,000 Salisbury 11/28/1933 500

MOBS OUT OF CONTROL

Places ,Dates & Estimates of the total crowd(s) STATE CITY/COUNTY DATE CROWD

MISSISSIPPI Biloxi 6/10/1900 100 Clarksdale 6/9/1934 150 Doddsville 2/7/1904 1,000 Vicksburg 5/15/1919 1,000 Winon 4/13/1937 100

MISSOURI Columbia 4/29/1923 500 Maryville 1/31/1931 3,000 St. Joseph 11/29/1933 10,000

NEBRASKA Omaha 10/10/1891 10,000

NORTH CAROLINA Roxboro 7/8/1920 200 Winston 8/18/1921 2,000

OHIO Lima 8/31/1916 3,000

OKLAHOMA Chickasha 5/31/1930 1,000

SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia 2/18/1900 250

TENNESSEE Estill Springs 2/12/1918 2,000

TEXAS Corsicana 3/13/1901 5,000 El Campo ??? 300 Ft. Worth (Armour Packing) 12/17/1921 30 Goose Creek 10/12/1917 800 Houston 2/8/1913 1,000 Houston 6/24/1922 300 Kirvin 5/6/1922 500 Lansing 5/22/1902 4,000 Newton 6/21/1934 200 Palestine 7/31/1910 300 Paris 1/6/1920 3,000 Streetman 12/14/1922 1,500 Waco 5/15/1916 15,000

MISCELLANEOUS

1 Mass Exodus Of African Americans – resulting in major losses of properties. a) Yazoo City, MS – August 10, 1923

2) African Americans Homes and/or Churches Burned a) Sherman , TX – May 10, 1930 b) Winnsboro, SC – June 14, 1932

HEROES , THEIR LOCATIONS & DATES

NAME (S) LOCATION DATE

Sheriff Ely Lima, OH 8/31/1916

14 Year Old Sheriff’s Daughter Columbia,SC Jan, 1917

Grover C. Fain (Police Captain) Atlanta,GA 9/10/1930

Sheriff Hood & 6 Deputies Winnsboro,SC ??

Police Whitesboro,TX 8/13/1903

Dr. James W. Reid Lowell, NC 3/26/1933

Mayor Edward P. Smith Omaha,NE 9/29/1919

Governor Stanley Murray, KY Jan, 1917

Sheriff R.J. White Spartanburg,SC 8/18/1913

[This inspiring poem was featuring in the movie “Coach Carter ”]

Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light , Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.

We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, And Fabulous ?

Actually Who Are We Not To Be ? You Are A Child Of God.

Your Playing Small Doesn’t Serve The World.

There Is Nothing Enlightened About Shrinking So That Other People Won’t Feel Insecure Around You.

We Are All Meant To Shine, As Children Do.

We Were Born To Make Manifest The Glory Of God That Is Within Us.

It’s Not Just In Some Of Us; It’s In Everyone.

And When We Let Our Own Light Shine We Unconsciously Give Other People Permission To Do The Same.

And As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our Presence Automatically Liberates Others

- Marianne Williamson -

[NOTE – BEING AFRAID AND REFUSING TO GET INVOLVED WON’T STOP US FROM DYING. BUT BEING AFRAID CAN PREVENT US FROM LIVING]

(Nkosi Sikeleli Africa )

God bless Africa May her glory be lifted high Hear our petitions .

God bless us, Your children God we ask You to protect our nation Intervene and end all conflicts Protect us, protect our nation, our nation.

From the blue of our heaven, From the depths of our sea, Over our eternal mountain ranges, Where the cliffs give answer.

Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.

[Enoch Mankayi Sontonga]

[http://www.infowars.com/infowars.asx] / [gcnlive.com] / [http://alexjonesringtones.net/]

WAKE UP ! STAY UP MY BROTHERS & SISTERS ! BE SELF-SUFFICIENT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

- Life Is a Game. Have Fun. [ Luke 18:17 / Isaiah 11:6 ]