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Trump
African surrogate Kobina Kennedy falls for lies and the
'unfair' racket: In defense of real common sense & human
values
By: Prof Lungu
November
06, 2016
"...When God wanted to start the
most enduring revolution in history, he chose a carpenter's
son...Let there be a return to commonsense and common
values...", Kobina Arthur Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah).
"LIKE
FATHER LIKE SON", THE OLD SAGE WROTE:
Decades before Dr. Kobina Arthur Kennedy went to America,
many years before he wrote about commonsense and common
values in America, American folk singer and legend, Woody
Guthrie, sang these lyrics for the America he loved so
dearly, on behalf of African Americans and the Nation:
"I
suppose Old Man Trump knows
Just
how much Racial hate He stirred up
In the
bloodpot of human hearts
When
he drawed That color line
Here
at his Eighteen hundred family project"
(Lyrics by American Folk Singer and Hero, Woody Guthrie,
circa 1950).
Dear
reader, American folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote those
"moving lyrics about Donald Trump’s racist dad." That scoop
is credited to the "literary scholar Will Kaufman".
According to the report:
"...in
1950, Guthrie... the folk singer...whose balladeering would
inspire Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, signed a lease with
Fred Trump, father of the
current Republican presidential front-runner. Guthrie lived
for two years in a Brooklyn apartment the elder Trump owned,
but grew upset at the racist policies that the real estate
developer used to exclude Blacks from his property..."
"Like
father, like son", they sage once said!
From
those Woody Guthrie lyrics alone (we imagine those times in
the 1950 are the better days Donald John Trump wants to
return America), Donald Trump's own business and social
record, including the latest Access Hollywood video tape
where Trump talks about assaulting women by "grabbing their
pu**y, one does not have to read much of the Bible, or even
believe half of it, to understand that Donald J. Trump never
was, never will be, like Jesus in any shape or form,
whatsoever.
Today,
we find Trump, Old Man Trump's son, doing what the Old man
did, and even worse.
Today,
Donald is in bed with voter intimidators from North Carolina
to Ohio, from Alabama to Pennsylvania, from South Carolina
to Virginia.
But
that ought to matter for commonsense and common values sake.
By his
own "poll watching" words and actions, Trump and his team
have been victimizing Blacks, Hispanics, the elderly,
immigrants, and the less fortunate, and discriminating
against them, compared to people exactly like Donald Trump
and his supporters.
Donald
Trump has labeled Mexicans as "rapists".
Donald
Trump, according to reports, has not paid federal income tax
in more than 2 decades.
Donald
Trump, unlike every presidential candidate over the last 50
years at least, will not show a single tax return to prove
he is more charitable than the Jesus of Dr. Kobina Arthur
Kennedy.
Donald
Trump preachers that Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin is a
better leader compared to Barack Obama the democrat; that
he, Trump alone, knows more about ISIS compared to US
generals and all politicians combined, that they are all
losers, pathetic managers and politicians.
Mean!
Vile!
Misogyny!
Diminishing to the US!
Dear
ready, those are just 3 words and phrase Mr. Steve Schmidt,
a reflective Republican, MSNBC contributor, former John
McCain presidential campaign staffer, has just used to
describe Donald Trump and his presidential campaign just as
we are putting our thoughts on paper for this article.
Here
is the faultline!
PROF
LUNGU BOTTOM-LINE THIS MOMENTOUS ELECTION DURING THE BARACK
OBAMA ERA:
We
were not going to further belabor the point after we posted
comments on Kobina Arthur Kennedy's essay, titled "The
global elites and the rise of Trump". For a while, that
essay seemed to have disappeared from Ghanaweb, into the
internet ether. But, then, just the other day, we can across
the same article on a website called Ghanastar.com, this
time under the authorship of one Kwame Dankwah.
Thinking we may have two Donald Trump surrogates propagating
Trumpian lies, foolish promises, and elite bluster on
Ghana-interest media in one shared-voice neither of whom
took time to say who actually composed the article, we
thought we would follow up with a more detailed response
addressed to Dr. Kobina Arthur Kennedy and Mr. Kwame Dankwa
(Kennedy/Dankwa) about the "miracle...of...the rise of
Trump".
In our
comment on the Kennedy/Dankwah essay and response to Mr.
Smart, we noted that when the "Global Elite" finally
relocate to Mars or other habitable planet as hypothesized
by Mr. Smart, Donald Trump and those people Kennedy/Dankwah
describe as "discontented", will actually pull up the
ladder. They will pull up the ladder to ensure that even
after "our children...wake up" and succeed in fixing the ruins
Trump and company have left behind, "our children" may never
be able to get out of their purgatory, no matter how hard
they tried, or prayed.
"Trump
University" certainly could not save the Africans because
there is no scholarship for foundation.
And
so, with this over-hang of a momentous American election now
just 3 days away, we thought it would be important for is to
say more, say more by way of an article from the point of
view of just another immigrant from Africa blessed to live
in the American of Justice Thurgood Marshall, Congressman
John Lewis, President Barack Obama, and so many other good
Americans and world citizens, including Civil Rights icon,
Rosa Parks, and labor organizer, Cesar Chavez.
Fact
is, while 43% of American whites voted for Barack Obama in
2008, during the 2012 election, just 39% did, a decrease,
surely.
There
is little Donald Trump could do to make his white supporters
proud and in the same fell swoop "make America great again"
while respecting and honoring Kennedy/Dankwah and the
freedoms, goodwill, and success they may/could enjoy in
America. That is, unless Kennedy/Dankwah moved to Russia and
played poodle and puppet to Vladimir Putin, just like Trump.
In
fact, Kennedy/Dankwah could go all the back to the
trickle-down economy of Reaganomics of the 1980s, to the
Voting and Civil Rights era of the 1960s, to the Jim Crow
era of the 1877-1954, and to those slavery centuries of 1581
- 1865 (when St. Augustine, Florida, became "the first
permanent settlement for slaves "imported" from Africa and
when slavery was outlawed with the passage of the 13th
Amendment to the United States Constitution).
Not an
iota of respect, freedom, honor, and goodwill would be
forthcoming to
Kennedy/Dankwah without the struggles of a multitude of
Blacks, Browns, and sympathetic Whites, some of whom died to
secure the blessings of those human values Kennedy/Dankwah
now enjoy in America, or could enjoy in America, as
Africans.
OBAMA'S ECONOMY IS BETTER THAN ONE INHERITED!
With
respect to Kennedy/Dankwah's "discontented" white people, it
helps to remind all of them that 11 million Americans were
unemployed in 2008,
representing an unemployment rate of nearly 10%, the year
Barack Obama was first elected president. That year alone,
U.S. employers shed 2.6 million jobs, being "...the worst
year since 1945...a rapidly deteriorating economy...more
significant losses ahead...", the New York Times reported.
In
2011, noting the "...economy is recovering from one of the
longest and deepest recessions since the end of World War II
(WWII), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics "Monthly Labor
Review" said:
"...
The downturn in employment accompanying the 2007–09
recession was notable for its prolonged length, for
affecting an especially wide range of industries, and for
being deeper than any other downturn since World War II..."
This
November, 2016, as the US heads to the polls, annual wage
growth has "...surged to levels not seen since the financial
crisis, while the unemployment rate dipped to 4.9 percent in
October from 5 percent the previous month...".
So,
after pulling the American state out of wanton Bush wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, and the muddy ditches of economic
recession as we've noted, it is the hoi polloi, proletarian,
and commoner Donald Trump, and his "discontented"
supporters, mostly white males, it is they who, according to
Arthur Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah, will return America to
"commonsense and common values...citizens of their
individual countries...Otherwise, there will be more
rebellions that will create more Trumps...".
If an
unemployment rate of under 5%, compared to 10% is not a
common value in America, what is, Kennedy/Dankwah?
If a
health-insured population of 80% is not a common value in
America, what is, Kennedy/Dankwah?
AMERICA IS BETTER HEALTH-INSURED:
According one report:
"...
In the first quarter of 2016, the uninsured rate among all
U.S. adults was 11.0%, down from 11.9% in the fourth quarter
of 2015. This marks a record low since Gallup and Healthways
began tracking the uninsured rate in 2008. The uninsured
rate has declined 6.1 percentage points since the fourth
quarter of 2013,
which
was right before the individual mandate provision of the
Affordable Care Act took effect in early 2014 that required
Americans to carry health insurance..."
Claiming America for whom, Kennedy/Dankwah?
Fact
is, it is Trump who wants to now pull health insurance from
under the feet of the more than 13 million Americans who now
have health insurance, even as Trump and the entire
Republican Party have not shared information on any
realistic alternatives, not one, not a dime.
Since
its passage, Republicans have continuously bad-mouthed
ObamaCare so much that public officials are known to tell
young Americans to avoid signing up. (Check Texas Senator
Ted Cruz, for example).
And
so, by depressing the ObamaCare sign-ons, needless cost
increase have now occurred during the 2017 open enrollment
season, but still modest for those who are a more flexible
with respect to coverage. Still, ObamaCare is affordable
from the point of view of the 13 million now enrolled.
What
do you understand by values and commonsense,
Kennedy/Dankwah?
It is
one thing for anyone, just anyone, to fall for Donald
Trump's lies, bluster, and more lies.
But,
it is entirely another matter for Arthur Kennedy/Kwame
Dankwah, human beings from Africa, persons who surely
are/could/would benefit from the long and hard struggles of
African Americans and other sympathizers before them, it is
entirely another matter for the Arthur Kennedys/Kwame
Dankwahs of the world to fall hook-line-and-sinker for lies,
bluster, more lies, and faux sense of victimization by
racist a sharp talker.
Does
Trump or Arthur Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah care about the number
of families whose young members can now ride on their
parents' health insurance until they are 23 years old
because of ObamaCare?
Does
Trump or Arthur Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah care about the number
of people who now have health insurance who, before
ObamaCare, could not purchase heath insurance at any cost
because they had "pre-existing conditions?
Did
Donald John Trump and Arthur Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah bother to
tally the number of lives saved and misery and heartaches
avoided in America as a result of the Affordable Health Care
known as ObamaCare?
Nice
try telling the lie, Arthur Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah, arguing
as if Donald Trump never was, never is, a part of the
"Global Elite."
TRUMP
IS NO HOI POLLOI - HE IS THE ESSENCE OF THE GLOBAL ELITE:
It
takes uncommon chutzpa on the part of African(s) such as
Arthur Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah to merely present what Donald
Trump says, and then argue further by inference that a
person who built office grandiose towers, hotels, casinos,
golf courses, who and still appends his "fantastic" name on
properties and building owned and used by "Global Elites",
is himself not a "Global Elite".
It
does not make sense!
Clearly Dr. Kobina Arthur Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah has bought
unreflectively into the Trump lie-in-a-racket!
When
Donald John Trump himself says he can do anything to a
woman, including grabbing their "pu**y without their
permission because he Donald John Trump is a star, Arthur
Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah don't not see a "Global Elite" in
Donald Trump.
This
is the same Trump who owned Ms. World and sundry pageants
that sent/brought women (and men) from all corners of the
world to America, the women to compete for the most elitist
crown for women on the entire planet.
Our
fundamental take here is this: Between Africans, between
Arthur Kennedy and Kwame Dankwah, it smacks of a failure of
a certain amount of critical thinking to adopt wholesale a
definition offered by another entity, and then apply that
same definition to support your positive view about that
same individual/entity, when the area under discussion is
covered by scholarship, and the literature on the subject is
super-expansive.
Go
pick a real book on Globalization, Arthur Kennedy/Kwame
Dankwah, and come back again.
It is
fascinating and weird, all at the same time!
And it
is sad!
But at
the bottom of all of that are lies, bluster, more lies, and
sociopathtic bluster!
As
urban scholars, Peggy Noonan does not define "Global Elite"
for us, nor should Peggy Noonan do same for Africans who can
read.
But
Steve Schmidt's description of sociopath Donald Trump, a
70-year old man who must be nursed by handlers to stay away
from his Twitter phone, Steve Schmidt's account is right on
point. That, we must say, is worth a whole lot of social
listening and reflection.
Fact!
Donald
Trump has been/is being enabled by apologists for Russia's
Putin, all manner of 'sexists', 'racists', 'xenophobes', and
so-called Alt Right personalities, among them Paul Manafort,
Steve Bannon, KellyAnne Conway, Rudy Giuliani, Newt
Gingrich. They now sit right smack in the center of the
Republican Party, spinning lies and more lies, having taken
over completely an American major political party.
But
that is just general-speak!
Significantly, Mr. Donald Trump has so normalized racism,
sexism, and xenophobia for the benefit of his cabal of white
supremacists that today, Americans, many of them the
children of immigrant parents, are now in perpetual mental
anguish. They fear Trump is coming after their parents and
themselves, if Trump were ever to actualize the Arthur
Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah "miracle", and win the American
presidency.
So,
Arthur Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah, tell us what your own
definition of "Global Elite" is.
When
Trump himself says he can do anything to a woman, including
grabbing their "pu**y because he is a star, women many of
whom were "imported" from other countries to America to
strut themselves on "red carpets" for the pleasure and
economic interest of Donald John Trump, tell us, Arthur
Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah, tell us that is all talk by a hoi
polloi, a commoner, a nonentity.
When
Donald Trump uses privacy and tax laws to hide his own
taxes, when Trump imports cheaper steel from China for his
buildings, when Trump transports clothes from Mexico on
American highways he's not paid a cent in taxes to maintain,
when Trump seeks and receives "...funding from Russian
investors for his business ventures,...(because)...American
banks stopped lending to him following his multiple
bankruptcies...", when Donald John Trump then turns around
to say that those same laws and benefits that protect him
are unfair to him, Arthur Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah, tell us
those are no actions by a "Global Elite" in his own interest
and in the interests of his corporations spread all over the
world.
Nice try, fellas!
Notes/Sources
1. Kobina Arthur Kennedy/Kwame Dankwah. The global
elites and the rise of Trump. Ghanaweb/Ghanastar, 2 November
2016,
(http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/The-global-elites-and-the-rise-of-Trump-483195).
(https://www.ghanastar.com/news/the-global-elites-and-the-rise-of-trump-2/amp).
2. 1. Will Kaufman | University of Central Lancashire,
The Conversation, Woody Guthrie Loathed His Racist Landlord:
Donald Trump’s Father,
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_us_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83)
3. Jeet Heer. Woody Guthrie wrote some moving lyrics
about Donald Trump’s racist dad,
(https://newrepublic.com/minutes/128153/woody-guthrie-wrote-moving-lyrics-donald-trumps-racist-dad).
4. Jennifer Bendery, White House and Congressional
Reporter, The Huffington Post. Video Shows Donald Trump With
Alleged Mobster He Denied Knowing,
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-mobster-casino_us_5819ff2ee4b01f610e3949b2).
5. Louis Uchitelle. U.S. lost 2.6 million jobs in 2008.
The New York Times,
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/business/worldbusiness/09iht-jobs.4.19232394.html).
6. Timeline of Slavery in America: 1501-1865,
(https://sharondraper.com/timeline.pdf).
7.
Christopher J. Goodman and Steven M. Mance. The 2007–09
Recession: Overview. Employment loss and the 2007–09
recession: an overview,
(http://www.bls.gov/mlr/2011/04/art1full.pdf).
8.
U.S. Uninsured Rate at 11.0%, Lowest in Eight-Year Trend,
(http://www.gallup.com/poll/190484/uninsured-rate-lowest-eight-year-trend.aspx).
SUBJ: Trump African surrogate Kobina Kennedy falls for
lies and the 'unfair' racket: In Defense of Real Common
Sense and Human Values.
Prof Lungu on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/professorlungu
Brought to You
Courtesy: www.GhanaHero.com©5th November, 2016.
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LMVCA QUESTIONS
AWARD OF PINK SHEET CONTRACT; EC MUST COME CLEAR
Commentary, Nov 04, Ghanadot -
The Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA)
is outraged at the corruption exhibited
by the Electoral Commission of Ghana
(EC) in awarding an GHS 8.95 million
contract for the printing of the
Statement of Poll and Declaration of
Results Forms (Pink Sheets) and other
carbonized election forms to Aerovote, a
company in the United Kingdom which was
liquidated in 2013, which was later
incorporated in Ghana on December 2015. . More
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Mahama
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bondage (Part 1)
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- Without doubt, this is the most consequential
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overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah...During the last 5
years alone, Ghana has lost over $6 billion
though the illegal oil contract scheme the basis
of which is illegitimate concession laws...now,
tweaked into the Mahama Oil Hybrid System (MOHS)
for Ghana...
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Before the US Elections
Commentary,
October 14, Ghanadot - But I know. Many
will think I am wrong because my vote, as Black,
should be permanently marked as Democrat. These
folks can, therefore, jettison the issues and
concerns I have listed here. I'll be glad
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ANOTHER NOVEMBER
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November began yesterday with All Saints' Day;
today is All Souls' Day.
....And there is one thing that is certain- we
all have an appointment with death. Death, the
last taboo, has been brought into the mainstream
and there are important rational and emotional
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