In “Dreams From My Father”, Obama wrote this passage about his grandfather:

What Granny had told us scrambled that image completely, causing ugly words to flash across my mind. Uncle Tom. Collaborator. House nigger.”

The reason for the ugly condemnation gives us important insight into our President’s psyche and supports the theme of Dinesh D’Souza”s political documentary, “2016: Obama’s America”. D’Souza believes that the key to understanding Obama is to understand his deep-rooted anti-colonialism. The angry “house nigger” slur comes from that place in Obama. His grandfather had committed the heresy of admiring parts of Western culture. Dinesh explains,

From Obama’s point of view, Onyango’s unforgivable heresy was not merely his admiration of the British, but how this man contemplated the differences between Western and African ways.

When Onyango returned home to his village after his confinement, he began to ponder the question of how the British, from their tiny island, were able to conquer so much of the globe. Here I must quote Sarah Obama on her husband: “He respected the white man for his power, for his machines and weapons and the way he organized his life. He would say that the white man was always improving himself, whereas the African was suspicious of anything new.”

Read the enlightening article here.

This story reminds me of two other stories from Obama’s life. First, when Obama discussed his first job, he characterized himself as being ashamed to be working in a capitalist enterprise. He said he was “working behind enemy lines”. He wondered if he was a “sellout”. He soon left the business world for good and became a community agitator in Chicago….. where he did things like organize anti-capitalist demonstrations against banks, essentially forcing them to give home loans to people who could not pay back the loans. In this way, he helped create the economic mess he “inherited”.

Second, when young Barry Soetero lived in Indonesia, his stepfather took a good paying job with an American oil company. This angered Barry’s mother who did not want her husband working for a capitalist enterprise that was ‘exploiting’ Indonesia (by offering high paying jobs and improving the Indonesian standard of living???). Barry’s real father had similar anti-capitalist views. The acorn did not fall far from the tree. The fact is that the entire forest Barry grew up in had anti-capitalist views.