So now Barack Obama is about ready to become the 44th president of amerikkka. Forgive us if we don't get caught up in the emotional whirlwind that has accompanied his election among many African people worldwide. We always have to remember the words of Kwame Nkrumah when he said that revolution is not sentimental, its scientific. What this means is the world today is controlled by multi-national corporate interests and every captialist political party is in bed with those interests.

There are 54 countries in Africa. There are dozens of African dominated countries in the Caribbean and South America and there are a number of other countries throughout Europe, amerikkka, and Canada, that have large numbers of African populations. Many of those countries have "black" elected presidents or prime ministers. People like Obasango in Nigeria, Mbeki in South Africa, Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Madam Johnson in Liberia. The last 30 years has seen a number of African heads of state throughout the world including some of the best we have had to offer like Nkrumah in Ghana, Ture in Guinea, Cabral in Guinea-Bissau, Bishop in Greneda, and yes, we say Mugabe in Zimbabwe. We have also seen African heads of state who represent the worse scum in human history like the Duvaliers in Haiti, Mobutu in the Congo, and Conte in Guinea.

In many of those countries, the masses of people suffered as badly, if not worse, under the so-called "Black" head of state than they did during colonialism. All one has to do is study the history of The Congo and Guinea for clear examples. During Ture and the Democratic Party of Guinea's tenure in Guinea from 1958 to 1984, Guinea was a poor country, but no poorer than she had been during colonialism. What Guinea did have during that 26 year period was its dignity and self determination. It had a plan to build an independent country where the potential of its vast bauxuite reserves could be channeled to serve as a vehicle to improve the quality of life for the people of Guinea and Africa. The country had a dream to develop and build an African infrastructure built around scientifica socialism.

During this 26 year period and ever since, Ture's regime has sustained ongoing criticism from imperialism about repression of dissidents who remained in Guinea and/or fled to other parts of Africa, France and amerikkka. People seem to forget that African self-determination and Pan-Africanism with state power is only 60 years old. Many mistakes may have been made, but the fundamental premise of diginity was real during Ture and the PDG's tenure. Since 1984, Conte has steered the country in a direction of slavery to the imperialist corporate interests who develop bauxite to make aluminum products. The intense repression on the people of Guinea has forced the people to resist. The massive strikes by bauxite workers have placed the country on virtual standstill for the last several years. This is the reality in the African world today, in spite of the overwhelming presence of "Black" presidents.

Obama's presidency will be beholden to the same imperialist interests that Conte in Guinea is committed to. People like Obama and Conte serve as the national spokespersons for imperialism and Obama by virtue of being president for the world's imperialist leader, will be the chairperson of imperialism in 2009.

This explains why in spite of his slick verbiage, you haven't heard a peep out of Obama about the disparity of sentencing that targets African, Indigenous (Latino), and other poor people. You haven't heard a peep about the oppression of women. You haven't heard him say anything about how he will address institutional racism. He has lectured Africans about self responsibility, but he hasn't said anything to white amerikkka about its arrogance, privilege, and unearned benefits at the expense of the world's populations. He hasn't talked about any of these things because those things aren't going to be on his agenda. The only thing on his agenda is keeping amerikkkan capitalism at the top of the international economic scale. This is of course problematic for the masses of Africans since capitalism is the source of the problems we and all poor people face today.

So, not only are we not on the Obama bandwagon, but we call on all critically thinking people around the world to continue to organize against globalization, which is nothing, but imperialism. We call on everyone to organize for true justice which is actually socialism which will only come through socialist revolution and transformation, not token representation in a system that works against our interests.

We know many of you will refuse to listen to this logic. The nostalgia and emotional high is too much for you to overcome. For you we can only say, as we said to those Africans who felt as you felt in South Africa in 1994 when Mandela was elected, that we will talk to you in a few years after the euphoria falls away. Today, SOuth Africa has been almost completely privatized since the African National Congress and Mandela came to power. The privatization has created unprecedented unemployment and a lack of social services that has made South Africa a crime ridden state very similar to amerikkka. This is all since 1994 and the dismantling of apartheid. We know, some would argue this is some sort of progress, but we know its really just transforming the methodogy of capitalism and imperialism to make their control more palatable.

We want justice and self determination! Not tokenism. We want Pan-Africanism and scientific socialism! Not token advancement for a few under capitalism. We must not be confused and distracted. We must continue to organize as never before! Even Al Queda is knowledgable enough to know that Obama is a slave to capitalism and should not insult the honorable memory of true African patriots like Malcolm X!