Thursday, 10 November 2016 01:50

Trump Tsunami: Mirror of soul of US and grand opportunity for Africa - Babson Ajibade

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That Trump would win was never in doubt, to some minds. America has lived a false reality for far too long. Make no mistake, there won’t be a spike in racism, bigotry, sexism or any other negative attitudes in the US. These decadences are at the same level they have always been in the American society. The only difference is that related incidences will be more visible, implying that they have been going on underneath and people were fooled into thinking they did not exist. 

Trump is not as stupid as was assumed. He spent many years and many millions of USD in research, which clearly showed him the actual thinking of the average white American. After that, he built his campaign on rhetoric he knew other people hated but “his” people will like to hear. These consisted of brazen social, political, economic, sexual, religious and other deviances that feed into the actual thoughts, feelings and beliefs of a larger white voters. It is not about literate or illiterate white audiences. More aptly, it is a cross-generational and cross-social deep feeling among mainly white Americans, which sees negative in non-white “otherness”. Trump is anti-establishment and status-quo (which Hilary would have maintained), which is what Trump voters have repudiated.

Make no mistake, America, as we know it, will reconfigure under Trump. If he has his way, he will be uninterested in the American profiteering through global dabbling into every other person's business. He wishes to stay within his boarders. This will create a somewhat new global order that will reboot most things. This reboot, has the good potential of enabling previously stifled economies like the African to seize the opportunity to re-negotiate a better stance and cast away a larger chunk of its Western social, political and economic burdens.

As an African, I am unencumbered by the sentiments of a glorious (but false) American past that stifled Africa and other lesser worlds. Neither am I fixated on the negative effects that President Trump will cause Americans. Rather, I am truly excited at the unique opportunity for the developing worlds, which a Trump presidency portends. Trump's excesses are first and foremost liabilities for America not Africa.

Let America deal with its own wounds and let the rest of the world see what they can do with (and for) themselves, while the new US under Trump finds its own footing. Let Africa wake up from its doggish enslavement to the now-threatened American mirage and use the ensuing reconfiguration that Trump may facilitate, to move forward and jettison a good chunk of its western colonial conditions in all areas of life. I think Africa and Africans should think more in the direction of how we can genuinely develop now, with the distraction that Trump presidency will likely bring to the western world.

If America decides against Trump, they can do one of three things: vote him out in four years, pray that he expires in Office or then enact the famed assassination conspiracy for their own salvation. Whatever happens, now is a golden opportunity for Africans in Africa.

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