Dear media, telling us that Donald Trump is a racist is ... not news. It is low-hanging fruit. . . .
'Shithole' nationalism
Elsie Eyakuze by Elsie Eyakuze
12 Jan 2018
Seriously, though. There's a couple of things going on here. First of all, I want to address the fact that Donald Trump is flamingly out of his mind. Where I come from - proudly a #shitholecountry - we generally try to be kind to our elders whose minds have clearly gone into the void while leaving them physically behind. Because there are values connected to the concept of Utu (or as non-East Africans call it, Ubuntu) that demand a basic level of common decency from individuals. It's a social contract thing.
As a consequence, I am largely horrified on a daily basis that his people are letting The Donald run around nekkid-minded in public every day under the pretext that he doesn't have a formal mental health diagnosis. The only response that's appropriate from out here is a gentle eye-roll and some prayers for America. This man is dying a slow and horrible public death and here I am writing about it. Utu forgive me.
The other issue is condescension. Dear media, telling us that Donald Trump is a racist is ... not news. It is low-hanging fruit. He's a mean old git who promised to build a wall between the US and Mexico to appeal to his voters. Was anyone surprised that he also despises people from continents he has never visited, especially considering he can hardly read to expand what appears to be a tragically limited intellect? Nope. It only adds insult to injury that we have to talk about this as though it merits consideration. Another overprivileged American goes Heart of Darkness. Been there, done that.
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.........Everything I have said above about #shithole countries is applicable to the United States of America and everywhere else. Genocide, slavery, rape, sexual slavery, extreme patriarchy, religious nuttiness, gun-toting fools, horrendous presidents, electoral shenanigans, corruption, inefficiency, brutality, apartheid (what are "Native American reservations"… like, seriously?), the drug trade, you name it. It takes a #shithole to recognize one.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/trump-shithole-remark-africa-180112170017744.html