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White supremacy must end

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THE Heroes’ and Defence Forces’ days have come and gone as Zimbabweans converged in different parts of the country, commemorating the sacrifices by gallant sons and daughters of the soil that enabled everyone in this land to be free.
But as we did so, we could not help but sympathise with our brothers and sisters in the US.
They are currently under the leadership of Donald Trump, a bigot who is actually a danger to himself considering the global outcry following his remarks after the Charlottesville protests in Virginia last Saturday.
Apparently, the protests have been described as ‘one of the largest white supremacist events in US history’.
The protests, however, turned violent after white supremacists clashed with counter demonstrators and in the process a car ploughed into anti-fascist and anti racist protesters killing one woman and injuring many people.
But it was Trump’s remarks afterwards that laid bare his racist nature.
Trump said he ‘blamed both sides’, including anti-fascist protesters, for the violence that erupted.
And this week, in our lead story, Dambudzo Mapuranga rightly puts it by saying ‘black demonstrators protesting the murder of teenagers are met with tanks and riot gear, while white demonstrators protesting the unpopularity of Nazi and Confederate ideology are met with politesse’.
The fact that Trump thrives on racism is no secret, but then if Trump, as a ‘democratic’ leader, can tolerate slogans such as ‘white lives matter’, he must also tolerate slogans like ‘black lives matter’.
Simon Coveney, the Irish Foreign Minister, recently told CNN that his country ‘condemns outright with no equivocation’ the views espoused by white nationalists and the ‘kind of racism and bigotry that we unfortunately saw on our television screens in the US in recent days.
But then perhaps the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was spot on when he said: “Racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are poisoning our societies. We must stand up against them. Every time. Everywhere.”
But then Trump’s failure to denounce Virginia white supremacists must not surprise us because the same white supremacists groups have been emboldened by Trump from the onset.
Surely if you are going to have former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke praising Trump for his racist remarks in this era, then there must be something wrong in this world.
Said Duke: “Thank you President Trump for your honesty and courage to tell the truth.”
Courage of displaying such hatred?
Honesty of displaying such reprehensible racism?
Isn’t this hypocrisy on the part of Trump and his US?
They parade themselves as the ‘heart of democracy’, a ‘land of the free’ whereby it doesn’t matter whether one is black or white.
But how do we explain the massive callous shooting of black people by whites in the US?
How do we explain the numerous civil rights movements in the US?
Movements advocating equality regardless of race?
Does the US really believe that ‘all men are created equal’?
And would it be wrong to suggest that as along as Trump is at the helm, we are going to witness the erosion of civil rights movements in the US.
As it is, he is already using some of our black brothers and sisters to further white interests in the world.
But as Zimbabweans, we must not forget that the racist Cecil John Rhodes once said: ‘White people are the finest flower of civilisation’, so Trump must be simply following in his footsteps.
However, as civilised people, we must come together to bring an end to white supremacy and this cowardly barbarism.
It can be done.

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