If you understand Black Nationalism, you can better understand what Obama's motivations may be. Black Nationalism as a mass movement was started in the 1920's by a Jamaican, Marcus Garvey, who once said that it was the first fascist party, because the Garvey movement started before Mussolini's Black Shirts. Garvey had millions of followers. Although a lot of people have fogotten it today, It was a larger movement than the Civil Rights movement. Garvey used to march around New York City with troops of black men dressed in military uniform and dreamed of uniting Africa under his rule.
He was a racist, black separatist. When he started working with the KKK to achieve their common goal of separating the races, it shocked other black leaders, who were integrationists, the forerunners of Martin Luther King, Jr. Partly due to their complaints, J. Edgar Hoover had Garvey brought up on charges of mail fraud, imprisoned for 5 years and deported. He died in London under strange circumstances. He had a stroke shortly after reading his own obituary in an American newspaper. Some people think that he was murdered by English colonialists, because he was demanding that Africa be liberated from colonial rule.
The Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya (which was fought against the UK while Churchill was Prime Minister) was inspired by the Garvey movement, as were many other black revolutionary movements. Obama's grandfather was part of the Mau-Mau rebellion. These factors may partly explain why the Obama's treated the Queen and Prime Minister of the UK so badly last year.
Black Nationalists have a very old and intense racial grudge against whites, historically white colonialist nations and America. They have been nursing this blood grudge for nearly a century. Garvey penned a poem while he was in prison in the 1930's, predicting that America would someday find retribution for it's treatment of the black man, called "The Tragedy of White Injustice." Some sections of the poem are shown below. The Garvey movement had quasi-religious aspects. Later groups such as the Nation of Islam developed this into a full-blown religious movement with a central, divine mission of destroying the white race and America and a prophesy that a Black Messiah would someday manifest himself as an ordinary black man to lead in the destruction of the whites. Obama's church is a branch of this Black Nationalist religion, with a basic theology that is very similar to the
theology of the Nation of Islam and has roots via the NOI in the Garvey movement. Their theology predicts that the advent of a Black Messiah is imminent. Louis Farrakhan, head of the related NOI sect, strongly implied publicly during the campaign that Obama is the Black Messiah.
From "The Tragedy of White Injustice"
(31)
The Armageddon is gathering now;
The sign is on every oppressed man's brow:
The whites who think they are ever so smart
Do not know other men can play their part:
When the opportune time is almost here
Black, Yellow and Brown will be everywhere,
In union of cause they'll stand together
And storms of the bully boldly weather.
(32)
Their gases and shots, and their rays of death,
Shall only be child's play-a dream of Seth,
For out of the clear, sleeping minds of ages,
Wonders
shall be written on history's pages:
Our buried arts and sciences then shall rise,
To show how for centuries we were wise:
Silent tongues we kept, by God's true command,
Until of us, action, He did demand.
(33)
Under the canopy of Nature's law
We shall unitedly and bravely draw.
On the plains of God's green Amphitheatre,
Swords, in rhythm with Divine Meter:
Jehovah's Day will have surely come,
With Angelic strains and Seraphic hum:
The Guides of Heaven will direct the way,
Keeping us from wandering far astray.
(34)
Like around the high walls of Jericho,
March we, as Rio speeds through Mexico:
Trumpets loud will the Guiding Angels blow.
As scatter the enemy to-and-fro:
Heaven will have given us a battle cry:
"Oh Brave Soldiers you shall never die":
Rally to the command of Heaven's King,
As Cherubim to Him your tidings bring.
(35)
See the deadly clash of arms! Watch! They fall!
There is stillness!-It is the funeral pall!
A sad requiem now is to be sung!
Not by Angels. but in their human tongue!
The cruel masters of yesterday are done!
From the fields of battle they have run!
A brand new world of justice is to be!
"You shall be a true brother unto me!"
(36)
This is a forecast of God's wrath:
White man, will you turn from the evil path?
There is still hope for you, among the good:
If you will seek the bigger-brotherhood:
Stop your tricks, frauds, lying and stealing,
And settle down to fair and square dealing;
If not, prepare yourself for gloomy hell,
As God announces the sorrowing knell.
