RACISM
ADEKEYE ADEBAJO: Stereotyping of Africa in US helps shape Trump’s views
Donald Trump's supremacist views are widely held within the US political establishment and among the wider general population
US President Donald Trump’s recent reported query about why his country was accepting so many immigrants from Haiti and "sh*thole" countries in Africa has been widely condemned. In a reversion to Hitlerite notions of Aryan racial purity, Trump also wondered why the US did not bring in more presumably blonde and blue-eyed immigrants from Norway. He had earlier reportedly depicted Haitians as AIDS-infected and Nigerians as living in huts. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump called for Muslim immigrants to be banned from the US, promised to deport 11-million undocumented migrants and termed Mexican immigrants "criminals" and "rapists". Trump was expressing views that are widely held within the US political establishment and among the wider general population. It was the fact that these were so publicly expressed in such vulgar terms that made them so striking. Antiblack and antiforeigner prejudices and policies have been displayed and supported by US presidents and officials f...
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