DONALD TRUMP’S DEPICTION OF OBAMAS AS APES SHOULD NOT SURPRISE

No wonder the centre of gravity of the revolving door in which elected American presidents, including Barack Obama, to come in and out with each allocated their share of momentous contributions to endless wars to sustain – and to effect regime change – is called the White House.

To do as America says and not as what America does is a right way incumbent President Donald Trump has embodied to the brim.

Creation of a parallel reality is what America’s creation of a fake reality looks like: A glue of whiteness consistent with the corresponding denoting of whiteness with superiority and blackness with inferiority.

Whiteness even knows when to use blackness to act on its behalf, as well as to criminalise blackness when it dares act in its own interest. The adverse effects of such skewed race relations can be seen in instances where blackness negates the good of a black cause for the express comfort of whiteness. This “whiteness” is oftentimes presented graciously as a form of progressiveness, pragmatism and reconciliatory to see the subjugated bending backwards in order to accommodate those that inflicted their pain and salute their victors as a gesture endorsing their dubious statesmanship.

All this, in my view, is the inter-generationally acquired teachable skill of saluting “whiteness” as superior. This is often done akin to a frequency of telling a lie until it gains currency of a semblance of truth. This is done by denying “truth” with as much regularity of mention until it is believed. The belief system is built upon the penchant to counter proof, which is supressed, rendered voiceless, faceless, subversive, and is eliminated so as to doubt its factuality while atrocities continue with no end.

This fake reality manifests itself in saying what exists does not. The genocide in Palestine’s Gaza Strip is one example that comes to mind. Conversely, what does not exist is often presented in choreographed yet false narrative, such as preposterous claims of genocide against white people in South Africa. The fundamental meaning of truth itself is attacked and the guilty enjoy the airtime by which they accuse the offended of what they themselves stand truly guilty of.

The dystopian impact and consequences of the peddling of this false story-telling are devastating in many ways. The champions of form of propaganda are loaded with resources, and the means of production, as Karl Marx noted. To this lot, nothing else will make sense for common human existence that appears to be at odds with their belief system.

Armed with the capacity, they make the pursuit of a lie relentless. If cornered, they opt for the “Samson syndrome” in the form of nuclear destruction, thereby going down with the pillars of the Temple, just as the Biblical Samson did. As a result, they care less that the world will come to an end for correcting what whiteness persistently puts across as factual.

When video of husband and wife Michelle and Barack Obama recently emerged, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s reaction was to dismiss it as fake news. On the subsequently irretrievable proof that video was real, that was not morally weighty to elicit an apology from Leavitte, except for the removal of the post from the White House website.

Trump, who had posted the video, must have done so to distract from unsavoury attention he is getting from the drips-and-drape release of the infamous Epstein files.

The Obamas were a black couple the American system needed in 2008 for America to reinvent and rebrand itself to be extended the benefit of doubt by way of giving the world the country’s first black president. But even under Obama, as President, was not going to be left off the hook to not serve the system in its pillaging habit with a smiling black face that lulled all not to see blood, bullets and bombs that literally rained on America’s manufactured enemies in the continued service of America’s endless wars.

The Obamas were inundated not to be black for the black cause but for the marketability of the incorrigibility of unrepentant whiteness to last. In the scandal stakes it does not yet appear the honeypot trap had reached Barack Obama albeit their marriage had its share of sponsored turbulence short of titillating sleazy stuff to invite ignoble shame. Point though is that Barack Obama’s blackness was put into service of whiteness as opposed to liberating blackness. But Trump has never got to accept that a black couple could be resident of the White House. By his incurable racism, in his heart of hearts, he believed it was time to nail his sadism on the low opinion he holds for black people by picking on the Obamas to depict as apes in the jungle whose value can only be to aspire to be the picture of what whiteness can permit as poster boy and girl.

So depraved is Trump that he took to distributing a video of Barack and Michelle Obama as less human than himself. Never before has whiteness revealed its lowest point in the political arena as instanced by Trump.

It would be a mistake to think this is how he thinks of America’s former first black couple. It is a revelation of what Trump thinks of black people in general. Triumphantly, Trump chose Barack and Michelle Obama as notable symbols for his macabre moment that celebrate the power of whiteness that cannot imagine a world without black derogatory subordination and depiction.

All black people, worldwide, must carefully evaluate to what service they offer their blackness. Steve Biko left us a legacy of Black Consciousness that is premised on the blackness that humanises, dignifies and liberates. The legacy Biko left can be captured in the following quote: “The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look, but the great gift still has to come from Africa – giving the world a more human face.”