NeoCon Geography and Demographics - Are We Incan?

Written by: Eric Weis on Sep 26, 2008 2:55 PM EDT

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I write this post today, in honor of my old friend Peter Ndiege, the brother of Tom Mboya, both of the Luo tribe from Kenya.  The same ethnic background as Barack Obama Sr. and his ancestors.

Peter was a bright young man in 1968, over here on an exchange program, attending the University of Pennsylvania.  Among other things, he taught me a word or two in Swahili.  One which sticks in my mind is "kwaheri".  He told me it was a way of saying goodbye with wishes of peace and tranquility.  Not too far from shalom, salaam etc.  But it sure doesn't sound the same as the Judeo-Arabic versions, doesn't it?  Nevertheless, the meaning is the same.

40 years later, Google and the internet allow us to figure out nearly anything.  Kwaheri is indeed the Swahili word for goodbye.  It is used in sub-Saharan Africa but not in the north, where the Arabic salaam, French or other indigenous languages are spoken by Berbers and so forth.

Now why do I mention this right now?  Because this week, Rush Limbaugh called Barack Obama an Arab in so many words. Go to the following link (which is also a fundraising appeal) and click on the video.

https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5339/t/2489/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=437

In his appearance, Limbaugh said, "Do you know he has not one shred of African-American blood?" Limbaugh continued: "He's Arab. You know, he's from Africa. He's from Arab parts of Africa. ... [H]e's not African-American. The last thing that he is is African-American."

The Arab parts of Africa.  Hmmmm.   So, according to Rush, Kenya (in East Africa, located on the Indian Ocean) is part of the Arab parts of Africa.  This means that Rush thinks Arabs come from latitudes below the Sahara.  Funny, but that is not what I learned in school.  When I was young, I was taught that camels, date palms, oases and Arabs are in the sandy part of the dark continent, and that elephants, gorillas, lions, hippos, Tarzan and black people come from the jungles much further to the south.  Guess I got it wrong.

I must also have a gross misunderstanding of what is going on in Darfur, the Sudan.  They must all be Arabs, and rumors of genocide are probably false.  Why would people of the same ethnicity wish to murder each other?

I will now have to revise my view of the world and get things rightside up. The white Europeans settled in South America, and up here in North America, we must all be Incan.

This is all very confusing.  But there is one simple explanation.  Limbaugh never really went through rehab and his brain continues to be addled by years of continuing drug use.  Somebody please, go help Rush.  Send him to Alaska so that he can meet some Peruvians and penguins.  (There aren't any penguins near the north pole, but maybe he can claim a new scientific find up there).

And Rush, may we all wish you a long and permanent kwaheri!

- "ArcticEric"

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