{UAH} How Africa should response to Trump's insult

Folks;

The insulting comment that President Trump made about Haiti and Africa should offer Africa a rare, collective opportunity to defend its dignity, and demand its respectful position in the world.

Under the auspices of the African Union, Africa should immediately expel all US ambassadors to the continent. These ambassadors are direct appointees of the US president, and are therefore his principal representatives to their designated countries.

By ordering them out of the continent, Africa will be telling Washington that your president and his direct reports are not welcome to the continent. And Africa should follow that up by banning all US officials who report to, or are appointed by the president - Cabinet secretaries, their deputies and assistants - from Africa as long as Trump is president.

US may keep its embassies and staff in Africa.

Secondly, all African nations that recently abstained from or voted with the US against a UN Resolution condemning Israel's decision to relocate its capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, should rescind their votes. 

They should also immediately announce that they won't honor the US invite to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, that's scheduled in the next few weeks.  

Africa has borne the brunt of America's and European's racist, exploitative capitalism, and phoney Christianity.

As Robert Mugabe, then prime minister of Zimbabwe, eloquently lamented in 1984,  our raw materials are freighted on a daily basis to London, Brussels and New York, and returned to us as finished good at exorbitant prices.

The West continues to grow rich from Africa today, partly due to our own complicity, and partly because the pegs of commercial engagement are heavily stacked against us. 

But we have the votes at the UN, and the market for those finished goods. 

We are, therefore, not helpless. We need to parlay our few vantage points and send the overdue message that Africa will not accept to deal with this racist president. 

Africa has barely recovered from the racist, apartheid system that pushed back the socio-economic development of black South Africans by a century; we should not tolerate any insult by another racist, whatever is pedestal position in the world.

Africa may not determine whoever Americans elect as their president, or what they choose to forgive of their president; but Africa should not be expected to turn the other cheek when that American president is racist and unleashes his racist rant against us.

Pojim