A front-line presidential contender in the United States of America, Donald Trump, has focused his acclaimed crudity on Nigeria, saying that the country deserved to be recolonised for another 100 years.
“These are people who import everything including matchsticks. In my opinion, most of these African countries (like Nigeria) ought to be re-colonized again for another 100 years because they know nothing about leadership and self-governance.”
Trump, at a campaign rally said: “one of the highest producers of crude oil in Africa without nothing tangible to show for it is Nigeria. 56 years after independence, Nigerian leaders still can’t deliver.
“How do you trust even those who have run away to hide here in the United States? They hide behind education? I hear they abuse me in their blogs but I don’t care because even the internet they are using is ours and we can decide to switch it off from this side.
“Look at African countries like Nigeria or Kenya for instance, those people are stealing from their own government and go to invest the money in foreign countries.”
Trump added: “ordinary electricity, water, home-refined petroleum products, transportation – road, rail, water and air – infrastructure.
“From the government to the opposition, they only qualify to be used as a case study whenever bad examples are required.”
Meanwhile irate supporters of Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump have started attacking Muslims and Hispanic, telling them to go home. Two university students in Kansas, one Muslim and one Hispanic, were assaulted after they noticed a white man using racist language toward a black man. The white man then turned his ire toward Khondoker Usama, the student body vice president at Wichita State, and his friend.
The attackers called the ‘brown trash,’and told them: ‘go home. Trump will win. You want to live in this country, you better leave.”
But the student responded with defiance: “this is my country; who are you to tell me that?”
From there, the situation escalated, and the confrontation turned physical as the man punched Usama’s friend and took him to the ground. Usama tried to get in between the man and his friend but was punched, then backed away because he thought the man might be reaching for a weapon.
“He kept kicking the student who was lying on the ground, He was kicking him; it was a gut-wrenching scene. He saw that I was calling the police and got back on his motorcycle and circled around us and was saying ‘Trump, Trump, Trump, we will make America great again. You losers will be thrown out of the wall.’”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a press conference with Usama yesterday to call for a hate crime probe of the attack.
CAIR blamed Trump last month for a nation-wide rise in Islamophobia, saying: “We live in a nation today where people like Trump, where people like the Republican GOP have mainstreamed Islamophobia.”
CAIR’s St. Louis branch director Faizan Syed said: “They have made it O.K. It’s O.K. to take out a gun and threaten somebody.”
Trump’s language concerning Muslims and Hispanics in particular has left a number of Americans angered or outraged. Trump continues to defend his The normally apolitical Brandon Stanton, owner of the Facebook account Humans of New York (HONY), published an open letter to the real estate mogul on the HONY page Monday.
…over the last two years I have conducted extensive interviews with hundreds of Muslims, chosen at random, on the streets of Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan. I’ve also interviewed hundreds of Syrian and Iraqi refugees across seven different countries. And I can confirm— the hateful one is you.
Trump has repeatedly defended the rhetoric he uses at his rallies. Among the myriad of defenses he’s cited are his rejection of political correctness exercised by establishment politicians.
“The reason there’s tension at my rallies is that these people are sick and tired of this country being run by incompetent people that don’t know what they’re doing on trade deals, where our jobs are being ripped out of our countries,” Trump said on Meet the Press Sunday.
He added that supporters are “not angry about something I’m saying — I’m just a messenger.” [myad]
