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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 01:36 AM
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Proud anti-colonialist here. That history professor must have missed
something in his education. (I'm referring to Newt, of course.)

Nothing big, really -- just the American Revolutionary War.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 01:43 AM
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1. The proof that Amy Goodman has a great sense of humor --
She had an actual anti-colonial Kenyan poet on that next Monday. Amy gives me the will to live most days. :)


While Gingrich Says Obama Acts "Kenyan, Anti-Colonial," What Does a Real Kenyan Anti-Colonialist Think? A Conversation with Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o


Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is coming under fire from many Democrats for saying one needs to turn to "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior" in order to understand President Obama. We turn to a recent interview with a real Kenyan anti-colonialist: Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a world-renowned novelist, playwright and literary critic, and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/13/while_gingrich_says_obama_acts_kenyan
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-10 02:48 AM
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2. Thanks for the link. I like Amy, too, but I'd missed this. n/t
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