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- 38 -While Mr. Obama alone stands to blame the most for allowing this situation to spiral out of control, (primarilybecause Rev. Wright was his long time personal and theological mentor) the broad condemnation lodgedagainst the minister for being honest says more about the African in the United States than it does about theturmoil created by his sermons. Given the scope and depth of the indoctrination people of colour endure inthe U.S. it stands to reason that a White backlash to his observations could be expected. But the fact thatother Africans, chiefly those whose livelihoods are wholly dependent upon access to White favours are soswift to jump on the anti-Rev. Wright bandwagon in the face of continual historical racism displays howbroken the African really is when faced with the reality of his and her condition. Rev. Wright’s crime is thathe is an African man intelligent enough to articulate his own position and the deplorable condition of theAfrican man and woman in America. In other words, he is what the last generation of Whites used to call a “Smart Nigger,” code words for a Black man who isn’t stupid, shiftless and willing to allow the overseer tobeat him to death without an equally reciprocal rejoinder. In other words, Rev. Wright is not Uncle Tom.[xi]Spike Lee immediately comes to mind in this regard but he is not the only one. Housewife’s choice superstarOprah Winfrey has also come out against Mr. Obama’s critics by denouncing his former pastor, theReverend Doctor Jeremiah Wright via proxy spokespersons on the right-wing dominated media circuit.Apparently she does not have the courage to denounce the good minister for telling the truth in person. If shedid, her mostly Euro-American studio audience and ego-Oprah Magazine subscriptions would recedequicker than a spilff passed amongst the crowd of an Amsterdam coffee shop. This is hardly a originalcircumstance and without debate it is as depressingly deep-rooted and as old as the empire itself. As myGullah-Indio father told me long ago, divide and conquer is a game played by White people all over theworld and without that curious principle, Europeans could never have gained control of the third world norever have had the opportunity to construct empirical outposts wherever they decide to drop their anchors.This reliance on psychological ju-jutsu can almost never be acknowledged by those targeted for suchintrigues or expressed as anything other than frustration and self-directed angst. Its victims are by keendeception fooled into believing that their painful state of being is a natural one and that submission to externalauthority is the moral and intellectual equivalent of sanity and virtuosity. To state that the African is compelledto exist within two parallel states of being to survive says much about the world in which he lives. Thisshameful dichotomy exists whether the European in the Americas or his moral lapdogs of any ethnicity wishesto acknowledge it or not. It must also be said aloud that this duality is immediately subjective for the Africanand other Aboriginals residing at the bottom of the U.S. human totem pole.No Ashkenazi Jew in the 21st century would be expected or obligated to defer to Judeophobia in any formin any nation on Earth on the basis of a moralistic purity imposed by Gentiles. The very existence andbelligerently xenophobic quasi-theological narration of the modern State of Israel is empirical proof of this.Yet, the African and the Aboriginal in the Americas is expected as well as obligated to accept and defendEuropean cultural power as the unchallenged rule of the universe as dictated the protestant version of theancient Semitic deity. The process by which we are duty-bound to articulate this peculiar state of affairs isdescribed as “civilisation” and it differs little in direct comparison with the pretentious Europocentric rhetoricof 1930’s NSDAP propaganda.[xii]