> By Emmanuel Onwubiko
>
> There is now loud echoes of rants of racism made against theWorld’s
> most eccentric politicians- Mr Donald Trump.
>
> Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States of America of
> the Republican political breed. Since he moynted the Presidential
> rostrum the accusations against him habe largely centred around
> racism which may have been instigated by his overwhelming aversion for
> immigrants of both Blacks and Hispanics in a Country almost known as
> one of the few Rainbow nation’s in the World by virtue of the
> historical contexts under which the different segments of the then
> fragmented nation’s evolved into the United States of America after
> many pre-independence battles that ended in 1776 on July 4th with the
> proclamation of Independence (Lord May I be right!).
>
> He has somewhat a pedigree of immigrant parentage by virtue of the
> fact that his parents are described in one opinion article as part of
> the broader Trump family originating from Germany. His mother, Mary
> Anne MacLeod, came from the Hebridean Island of Lewis, off the West
> coast of Scotland. He hails from a very illustrious background and
> none of his fore fathers is known for ownership of black slaves or any
> sort of slaves. So his background is profoundly non-racist.
>
> Business-wise just before venturing into politics, Donald Trump’s
> father was Fredrick Christ Trump (October 11, 1905 – June 15th 1999)
> was said to be an American real-estate developer in New York City.
>
> His net worth was colossal and estimated to be between $250-300
> million USD as at June 1999 at the much fulfilled age of 93. This
> means that Donald Trump’s Dad must have been busy making legitimate
> money and building an empire and had no time for the frivolity of
> racism. The younger Trump who would later beat even reputable opinion
> polls to become President of USA has the total DNA of his father in
> the World of entrepreneurial spirit.
>
> This is because, he, Mr.Donald John Trump however before entering
> politics was a businessman and television personality of note who
> related and partnered many black sporting personalities.
>
> With his mouth Trump has said that he had fulfilling times doing
> positive and constructive businesses with blacks and that amongst the
> black people he respects includes Mike Tyson the former World boxing
> Super heavyweight champion. Ben Carson the respected Brain Surgeon is
> his political affiliate.
>
> He was born and raised in the rich New York City borough of Queens and
> he is a proud holder of a good economics degree of the prestigious
> Wharton school.
>
> Trump owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageantry from 1996
> to 2015. Can you ever hold a beauty contests anywhere in the World
> without blacks? Not at all. As I write, the person holding Miss USA
> now is Miss Chelslie Kryst of North Carolina who was crowned on May 2,
> 2019 at Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. Currently God holds the
> broadcast right for the Pageant. A Nigerian Miss Agbeni Darego won the
> Miss World beauty pageant in 2001.
>
> Trump reportedly produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality
> television show, from 2003 to 2015. He is a man of considerable
> financial means which in the estimation of Forbes, could be anywhere
> around $3.1 billion USD. This makes Donald Trump a remarkable achiever
> Son of a very prosperous father. So you can say with Donald Trump he
> is ‘like farher, like Son’ defined by busibess successes. His
> fundamental departure from his Dad is the heated debates un political
> circles if he can be termed appropriately as a racist. Trump who made
> money in the media industry is however hated by the media and he too
> serms to hate the media passionately going by his cynicism of branding
> most World’s media as purveyors of fake news. So a check in the media
> will nearly tellingly convince you that Donald Trump is a racist. We
> will analyse those media contents before we draw the curtain to this
> brief reflection which is motivated by the deadly mass shootings in
> USA targeting immigrants in which over 50 persons were gruesomely
> murdered by White Supremacists.
>
> Historically, it was recorded that the grand Dad of Trump who was a
> German city named Mr. Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump; 14th
> March 1869 – 30th May 1918) was a German American businessman and
> the patriarch of the Trump family.
>
> Born in Kallstadst, in the kingdom of Bavaria (now in
> Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany). Trump’s grand father aforementioned
> had come to the USA at the age of 16 and started working as a barber
> just as it was reported by historians that he Anglicized his name to
> Frederick in 1893 when he became a United States citizen.
>
> Although Donald Trump has stated his metropolitan outlook and his
> rejection of the appellation of a racist and a supporter of a white
> supremacist, there are insinuations accusing him of being a racist.
>
> Although he, Donald Trump claims to have had a robust business
> affiliations with some blacks and especially sportsmen, but his
> largest critics have come from black sportsmen who think he is a
> racist. Added to these accusations, is the review by the associated
> press which found out that there are few, if any, black executives in
> the upper ranks of the Trump organization.
>
> CBC news of June 16th 2016 reported that erstwhile executives of Trump
> organization say they could not recall a single black vice
> president-level executive at Trump’s headquarters during their
> combined tenures at the Trump organization LLC, which ranged from 1980
> to late in the past decade prior to 2016.
>
> A peep at Trump’s cabinet during his first ever cabinet level
> meeting on March 13th following his inauguration shows only just a few
> black Americans or Hispanics including Dr Ben Carson who he made the
> Housing secretary because he believed that black dominated townships
> are in dire need of new housing infrastructures but he is yet to
> deliver on this ground.
>
> The Guardian of Britain in a report done around December 2017 on
> Omorosa’s exit stated that it highlighted the lack of diversity at
> Trump’s White house.
>
> And I then ask, does it mean then that Trump’s White House is
> dominated by whites in the White House?
>
> The Guardian appeared to have answered my question in the affirmative
> when it affirmed as follows: “The departure of the former Apprentice
> contestant Omarosa Manigault-Newman from the White House this week has
> placed the lack of diversity in Donald Trump’s administration under
> renewed scrutiny”.
>
> She even criticized Trump by accusing him of surrounding himself with
> whites who have never worked with blacks.
>
> Trump’s heightened rhetoric against immigrants and his vitriolic
> against blacks and Hispanics have combined to make his adversaries in
> the Democratic Party to increase their political accusations that he
> is a racist. He recently charged at some blacks in the Congress whom
> he asked to return to their original homelands if they are unhappy
> with the status quo in USA.
>
> But Trump seems not to have helped himself by way of his unrelenting
> tweets on the themes of immigration and his alleged attack of Africa
> as a continent of ‘shithole’ countries. He also singled out the black
> neighbourhoods of Baltimore for attack as a squallor of drugs and
> violent crimes. One of his most trenchant critics in the Congress is a
> black man who represents Baltimore. His many media battles were still
> raging when the unthinkable happened which are the two most recent
> deadliest mass shootings in US history but this time around only
> immigrants were targeted by the ruthless extremists who from all
> indications are White Supremacists.
>
> Interestingly, the two recent mass shootings that affected mostly
> immigrants in Texas have completely reinforced the allegations that
> Donald Trump is a racist and a white supremacist.
>
> He however partly deflated these unprecedented echoes of accusations
> of racism by directly condemning extremism and white supremacy. Trump
> blamed the internet for poisoning the minds of these evil attackers.
> He also visited the scenes of the shootings and promised to speak in
> favour of introducing legislations to modify gun ownership. However,
> the National Riffle Association which is a powerful lobby cautioned
> him against backing any reform of gun ownership laws that permits
> comprehensive background checks for prospective gun owners in USA. A
> good number of parliamentarians were sponsored by this powerful gun
> ownership lobby group.
>
> Trump during his visits to the scenes of the bloody mass shootings was
> quickly reminded that he too has played a role by stoking the flames
> of hatred for immigrants through his unrelenting tweets and political
> speeches. His media fight with the representatives of Baltimore has
> not helped matters.
>
> An analysts stated that if you ask President Donald Trump if he
> believes that he is an unrepentant racist, he would inevitably respond
> that he isn’t racist.
>
> The reporter apparently doesn’t believe him going by what he wrote
> that to the contrary, he’s repeatedly said that he’s “the least
> racist person that you’ve ever encountered.”
>
> The analyst who thinks otherwise says that Trump’s actual record,
> however, tells a very different story. On the campaign trail, Trump
> repeatedly made explicitly racist and otherwise bigoted remarks, from
> calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists to proposing a ban on
> all Muslims entering the US to suggesting a judge should recuse
> himself from a case solely because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.
>
> The trend has continued into his presidency, the reporter noted.
>
> “From stereotyping a black reporter to pandering to white supremacists
> after they held a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to
> cracking a joke about the Trail of Tears, Trump hasn’t stopped with
> the racist acts after his 2016 election.”
>
> The writer recalled that most recently, Trump tweeted that several
> black and brown members of Congress are “from countries whose
> governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and that they
> should “go back” to those countries.
>
> The tweets, aimed at Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna
> Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI),
> exemplify a common racist trope used against immigrants and minority
> groups who criticize US policies, the writer observed.
>
> The reporter then reminds us that Democrats, including House Speaker
> Nancy Pelosi, condemned Trump’s tweets as racist.
>
> This the writer says is nothing new for Trump. In fact, the very first
> time that Trump appeared in the pages of the New York Times, back in
> the 1970s, was when the US Department of Justice sued him for racial
> discrimination. Since then, he has repeatedly appeared in newspaper
> pages across the world as he inspired more similar controversies.
>
> “This long history is important. It would be one thing if Trump simply
> misspoke one or two times. But when you take all of Trump’s actions
> and comments together, a clear pattern emerges — one that suggests
> that bigotry is not just political opportunism on Trump’s part but a
> real element of Trump’s personality, character, and career”, (see
> GERMAN LOPEZ@GERMANRLOPEZGERMAN.LOPEZ
> 2019, 9:40AM EDT).
>
> HOWEVER, IT IS YET TO BE MADE CLEAR IF TRULY DONALD TRUMP IS A RACIST.
> ONLY TIME WOULD TELL.
>
> *Emmanuel Onwubiko heads HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA
> (HURIWA) and blogs
@www.emmanuelonwubiko.com,www.
> [2],www.thenigerianinsidermews
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