But the widespread stereotyping of Africa in the US media and Hollywood has helped to shape views like Trump’s. Anti-black and anti-foreigner prejudices and policies have in fact been displayed and supported by US presidents and officials for decades. They know morning, they know noon, they know evening, they know the darkness at night. They use the sun.”Even the first black US president, Kenyan-Kansan, Barack Obama, was not free of peddling stereotypes about Africa that made it sound like a “shithole”. Trump’s views are clearly crass, nativist, and abhorrent.

Source: The Guardian January 21, 2018 04:30 UTC