Nikki Halley, Priti Patel, Bill Cosby and the race myth
Your skin is overtaken with goose bumps when you read the history of Nikki Halley, the US Ambassador to the UN and Priti Patel, disgraced former British Minister of International Aid. The politics of both women is surreal but the study of philosophy prepares you for anything unbelievable that humans do.
Here is the strange case of two East Indian women whose mentality simply baffles the rational mind . Two ruling parties in two powerful countries have unashamed anti-immigrant ideologies – the Republican Party in the US and the Conservative Party in the UK. President Trump is a racist. It is infradig to descend to the level of debate with anyone who wants to dispute that. If Mr. Trump had his way, immigration of non-white people into the US would stop immediately.
The Republican Party is inherently a racist outfit. All the subterranean racist venom the Republican Party nurtured for decades and decades came to the surface with the rise of a Black American president. From hereon, the Republicans vowed that it would make American white again. It has been unthinkable for over centuries in the US for Blacks and non-white to seek membership in the Republican Party. Their natural home since then has been the Democratic Party.
Now brace yourself for some crazy things about human beings. One of the rising stars in the Republican Party is a woman whose parents were immigrants from India. And guess which state they settled in – racist South Carolina. Google the history of South Carolina and you will see that some publications have it as the most racist state in the US federal system.
Nikki Halley was born in South Carolina where her father taught at a predominantly black college. Is Halley telling us she and her parents never experienced racism in South Carolina. I studied in one of the most liberal cities in the world, Toronto and I saw racism with my own two eyes. I have countless friends who live in the most liberal state in the US, New York, and they have endured racist encounters.
Nikki Halley is one hell of a fanatical supporter of Trump. You have to look hard in the US to find someone whose praise of Trump is more emotional than Halley’s. Now do the logical thinking. If the US had a president like Trump when Halley’s parents went to the US, then Halley’s life would have turned out the opposite from what it is today. She may never have seen the soil of another land muchless to become a Cabinet minister in the most powerful country in the world. This same lady supports a president that is anti-immigrant.
The same logic applies to Priti Patel. Ms. Patel is the daughter of Indian immigrants to the UK. She became a star in the Conservative Party and got a ministerial job under, Prime Minister Theresa May. It was May as Home Secretary that drafted the most comprehensive anti-immigrant programme that is enforced today, May’s blueprint resulted in the Windrush scandal which was directly related to May’s time as Home Secretary. More that twelve dozen legal residents and citizens of the UK were picked up and deported to CARICOM countries. Now do the logical thinking. If May was Home Secretary when Patel’s parents went to the UK her life may have been different. She may have had to remain in India and would never dreamt of becoming a British Minister offering zealous support to the Israeli army.
Do you know the current Canadian immigration minister came to Canada as a child refugee from Somalia? He is not in favour of giving asylum to three families who helped Edward Snowden when he was in Hong Kong. Their lives are in danger if they are deported back to their home countries.
We come now to Bill Cosby. I have heard people in Guyana and I have read in the American press where Black folks say Cosby has been framed and the US wants to pull down a Black achiever. Have you ever heard more nonsensical trash than this? Just to remind you; sixty women have come forward to accuse Cosby. The list includes women from different ethnic backgrounds . Because a man is a celebrated Black American, he is incapable of doing bad things. So bad things have to do with genes; certain genetic species do not commit inhuman acts. Which science is that? Has to be jumbie science. By the same logic one can say a non-white American who has immigrant parents cannot support Trump. But Halley loves Trump. Humans are capable of all types of nasty things no matter which race or ethnic/cultural background they are from.