This ritual of challenging foreign leaders to the Oval situation of enterprise and belittling and denigrating them must stop.
Trump literally ambushed Ramaphosa, lectured him, bullied him, spoke down at him, accused his authorities and individuals of excessive crimes, stored interrupting him when he tried to talk, mocked his position as a peacemaker in the Ukraine/Russia war, and sought to thoroughly humiliate him… To behave in this unacceptable manner and delight in such mendacious falsehood is beneath any president, let on my own the most extremely effective one in the world.
It used to be reasonably a expose at the Oval situation of enterprise in the White Dwelling a pair of days ago when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met with American President Donald J Trump to focus on bilateral points and world affairs.
It began with Trump’s unsubstantiated and frankly asinine allegation that the white Boers of South Africa are being subjected to mass execute, ethnic detoxification and genocide.
Here’s no longer handiest incorrect but additionally painfully absurd.
Sadly it did no longer stop there. Trump went on to whisper that Julius Malema, the inspirational, charismatic and colourful MP and leader and founder of the South African Economic Freedom Warring parties (EFF), is a loathe-filled dark supremacist, racist, frigid-blooded murderer, and ruthless terrorist, whose map it is to abolish every white particular person in South Africa.
Needless to whisper these allegations are baseless and incorrect. The American citizens are attempting to provide a dogs a atrocious title in open as a lot as grasp it. It’s nothing but yet another neatly-crafted but unsubstantiated lying.
Even supposing Malema is terribly vocal and extremely controversial, he would no longer strike me as a hater of whites but rather a hater of injustice, oppression, persecution and institutional racism.
He’s a particular person with a social sense of correct and wrong who speaks for the wretched, the dilapidated, the weak and the oppressed, and who has constituted himself into a famous thorn in the flesh of the political institution, and the ruling elites in South Africa, every white and dark.
He’s terribly eloquent, neatly-told, neatly-read and fast off the designate, and these qualities, coupled with his evident courage and power, construct him a ambitious adversary, which every and every particular person of class, inferior or privilege in his country has every reason to be cautious of.
He also speaks a correct deal of sense, whereas his passion for the truth, justice and fairness for the dark majority population of South Africa, and dedication to the emancipation of the African continent from the forces of imperialism and neo-colonialism, can no longer be denied.
To hundreds of thousands of South Africans, Malema is a deeply courageous, insightful and profound man, and most likely the supreme post-Mandela hero and rising neatly-known particular person who their nation has ever known.
So that you just can add to this, hundreds of thousands of Africans (including Nigerians and Zimbabweans) who are living in South Africa regard him as a true and depended on friend, who has gradually spoken up for them and sought to provide protection to them from the rabid xenophobia that most dark South Africans endure from, and who has a stable and commendable Nkrumaist Pan-African vision.
For Trump and his White Dwelling to strive to disparage this kind of one who brings so essential to the table and who has carried out so essential to restore the self-respect and dignity of dark South Africans and Africans in the course of the world, merely consequently of he sang an weak, outdated-fashioned, pre-independence, Aparthied-technology, anti-Boer battle song at his political social gathering rally is uncharitable and unkind.
To expose down the lights of the Oval Convey of enterprise, gaze a film on him on tv for four correct minutes and construct him the centre of debate at a bilateral meeting between the presidents of two of the most revered countries on earth, handiest proves the truth that he will not be any longer handiest an African phenomenon but additionally a global brand and a rallying level for blacks from in the course of the world.
To that extent, Trump has inadvertently elevated his profile, rather than diminished it.
Like in the case of the Biblical Joseph, what Trump supposed for wicked, God supposed for correct.
Yet, most likely the most inaccurate part that Trump did on that day used to be no longer what he tried to lift out to Malema but rather the following.
He supplied a image to Ramaphosa and his delegation of what used to be purportedly “1000 white South African graves with white crosses on them of white South African farmers” who had been supposedly “dispossessed of their land by black terrorists” and “murdered in cold blood.”
Contrary to the American president’s assertions, it used to be later confirmed that the image used to be NOT of the graves of white farmers in South Africa but rather of a burial ground in a entirely thoroughly different country known as Congo!
One wonders how the president of the most extremely effective nation on earth may per chance well well most likely construct such an egregious and wide blunder and delight in such deceit and doublespeak, all in an strive to humiliate the South African president.
Sadly, it didn’t stop there. Trump literally ambushed Ramaphosa, lectured him, bullied him, spoke down at him, accused his authorities and individuals of excessive crimes, stored interrupting him when he tried to talk, mocked his position as a peacemaker in the Ukraine/Russia war, and sought to thoroughly humiliate him.
To behave in this unacceptable manner and delight in such mendacious falsehood is beneath any president, let on my own the most extremely effective one in the world.
I inquire of the hand of Elon Musk, who is a South African and who has no longer hidden his contempt and disdain for the ANC-led South African authorities and Israeli Top Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose authorities has been accused by South Africa of genocide and indeed taken to the Worldwide Court of Justice and to the Worldwide Prison Court every at the Hague, in all this.
Both must have totally loved the spectacle!
Yet, the truth is that although his predominately white lovely-skim MAGA spoiled in America may per chance well well were infected and thrilled by his proverbial lynching and carpeting of a helpless and whimpering dark president at the Oval Convey of enterprise, it has also alienated reasonably a lot of blacks and particularly African Trumpers like me, who have gradually refused to regard Trump as a racist but rather as a one who used to be specially chosen, ready, raised and anointed by God to abolish the American Deep Convey. And, to halt the Godless agenda of the globalists, to prevent the wars of the world, to position God at the centre of affairs in the case of politics and governance, to re-keep and re-instil the Christian virtues and values that America used to be built on, to interrupt the reduction of the unholy, Luciferous trinity and anti-Christ philosophy of Obama, Clinton and Biden in world affairs and American politics.
I sincerely hope that we lift out no longer stop up regretting our reinforce for him, but if he continues in this manner that reinforce shall surely dwindle.
Why lift out I day this? Be conscious of the following.
First, it used to be “let us grab Greenland, Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal and rename the Gulf of Persia,” then it used to be “let us turn Gaza into an American Riviera,” then it used to be “let us wage a tariff war against the nations of the world,” then it used to be “let us alienate and abandon our European allies,” then it used to be “let us provoke China,” then it used to be “let us go to the three richest nations in the Middle East and compel their Kings to invest trillions of dollars in America and even give us a new presidential jet.” Then it used to be “let us bring the little African leader who leads a country with the largest and most prosperous economy on his continent to the Oval office, humiliate him before the world and bully him into leaving our white brothers in South Africa alone,” and the latest is “let us stop foreign students from attending Harvard University because the authorities of that school have refused to bring to an end the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that are taking place on campus.”
These actions are extra and extra troubling and whether we have got got hitherto admired, cherished and prayed for Trump or no longer, we are going to no longer reinforce a confirmed bully and racist. That is also ungodly.
We can no longer reinforce a one who finds it hard to empathise with the struggling of others or who is snappily losing his humanity. That is also incorrigible.
Trump desires to retrace his steps, divest himself of these evident and evident symptoms of megalomania, obsessive self-esteem and uncouth narcissism, and procure true.
God did no longer lift him from the hands of his enemies and construct him president to lift out this manner of nonsense but rather to construct America wide again and to construct the world an even bigger and safer situation. If he fails to lift out this, God will walk away him, seize away him and substitute him with another.
Aid to the episode at the White Dwelling.
Cyril Ramaphosa’s responses to the grilling had been equally embarrassing and frankly disappointing.
Most Western commentators have described his disposition, physique language and reaction as “weak”, “cowardly” and “cringeworthy” and I’m constrained to concur.
No president may per chance well well most likely tranquil bow and tremble earlier than another, no matter how neatly off and extremely effective the latter can also very neatly be.
In the African context, Nelson Mandela have not got carried out so and neither would have Murtala Mohammed, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jerry Rawlings, Thomas Sankara, Ahmed Ben Bella, Muammar Ghadafi, Patrice Lumumba, Gamal Nasser, Sani Abacha, Ibrahim Babangida, Kwame Nkrumah, Muhammadu Buhari, Robert Mugabe, Samora Machel or Ibrahim Traoré.
This ritual of challenging foreign leaders to the Oval situation of enterprise, like King Hussein of Jordan (who literally had to bow and lick Trump’s posterior), President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine (who used to be insulted, rubbished, humiliated and by hook or by crook thrown out), and now Cyril Ramaphosa (who used to be forced to gaze an embarrassing scene about his country on tv), and belittling and denigrating them must stop.
The humiliation of the South African president, particularly, used to be painful for me to gaze consequently of of the horrifying history of his country and the unpleasant atrocities and apartheid draw that the white Afrikaaner Boers subjected the dark Africans to for hundreds of years.
They went through all that and now they must endure this in the hands of yet another white man.
This same white minority that oppressed and enslaved them in their hold land for hundreds of years withhold watch over 80 per cent of the economy and hold 90 per cent of the land in their country this day, no matter the truth that they handiest train eight per cent of the population.
These are the individuals who Trump is claiming are being subjected to genocide and is offering asylum in America.
These are individuals who in the famous and in the previous have regarded dark Africans as being “no better than animals.”
These are individuals who practised apartheid and described dark individuals as the biblical “hewers of the wood and drawers of the water.”
These are the individuals who once regarded a dark man as being a quarter of a human being, and no longer handiest refused to have true inter-racial intercourse or marriages but compelled dark individuals to are living in shanty cities that had been limited better than focus camps. And who subjected them to pass regulations essential in the sane intention as the Israelis are subjecting the Palestinians to such inhumanity and degradation this day.
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If a Nigerian leader had been treated like this in the Oval situation of enterprise and I used to be in the room, deem me all hell would have broken free and Trump, his VP, his ministers, his group and the American White Dwelling Press Corps would no longer handiest have obtained bigger than they dished out and bargained for but they would were given a curt history lesson about the previous and latest atrocities of their nation and a thorough and exact lecture about the matter at hand.
I’m a Trump supporter, but in all issues my nation and continent must arrive first.
I despise the intention he bullied Ramaphosa and I am hoping and pray that he or any other foreign leader by no technique tries this with any Nigerian leader who I’m in the room with.
The days of speaking down at African presidents are long over.
Extra importantly, the days of cowardly, dilapidated, subservient, spineless, grovelling, injurious, compromised and ignorant African lichspittles and quislings, who call themselves leaders but who lack self-like, self-respect and satisfaction in their individuals and who have no shame or dignity, who are hopelessly compromised, who have no data of world affairs or world history, who are pawns of the neo-colonialists and imperialists and who have bought their soul and future of their nation to the western powers, are long over.
This truth can also very neatly be confirmed by what can easiest be described as the “Traoré spirit” that’s blowing into all the nooks and corners of our continent this day.
As essential as I love and reinforce Trump, his perspective and coverage on Africa and Gaza leaves essential to be desired.
He desires to lift out better and he must understand that the Palestinians and the Africans, although going through challenges, are far extra resilient than his individuals ever had been and arrive from a far older and increased civilisation than his country ever did.
We may per chance well well most likely no longer have their cash and power but we have got got God.
Their time is now but the following day belongs to us. That God who place them up there and established their hegemony and empire shall have in mind us.
We too shall upward thrust and at that point all men shall whisper that the rejected stone has change into the corner stone, that the Lord makes use of the silly issues of this world to confound the wisdom of the wise and that truly all issues are that it is possible you’ll well most likely most likely take into consideration with God.
Femi Fani-Kayode is the Sadaukin Shinkafi, the Wakilin Doka Potiskum, a dilapidated Minister of Aviation and a dilapidated Minister of Culture and Tourism.
