{"id":346068,"date":"2018-01-30T19:37:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T18:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/using-immigrants-to-shame-america-blacks\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T19:37:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T18:37:31","slug":"using-immigrants-to-shame-america-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/using-immigrants-to-shame-america-blacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Immigrants to Shame America Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99356\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99356\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-29-at-9.47.41-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Fibonacci Blue | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t surprised that some of our leading \u201cthought leaders\u201d didn\u2019t know that Nigerians are among the most highly educated immigrants. I wasn\u2019t. I visited Nigeria in 1999 and met a number of intellectuals, scholars, and writers. Upon my return, I published two anthologies that included 41 Nigerian writers, selected and edited by Nigerian writer Toyin Adewale-Gabriel. Yet during a discussion of President Trump\u2019s describing African countries as \u201cshitholes,\u201d ignoring the fact that some African countries have a higher GDP than the United States, his critics demonstrated that they\u2019d succumbed to the same stereotypes as Trump. One CNN reporter even referred to Africa as a country.<\/p>\n<p>The late Cyprian Ekwensi, one of Nigeria\u2019s leading writers, told me that he got most of his news about the African continent from the BBC. Indeed, unlike on American media, one can find African artists, intellectuals and politicians and business people appearing on that network.<\/p>\n<p>If Donald Trump and his fans consider African countries as \u201cshitholes\u201d that\u2019s how they\u2019re shown in the American media and schools, which is why some of the fiercest racial brawls occur on high school and college campuses. Trump voters, who are delighted by their leader\u2019s dig at Haiti and African countries, might be surprised to learn that Chinese universities offer courses in African and African American culture. I visited one where over sixty professors have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/01\/30\/using-immigrants-to-shame-america-blacks\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Fibonacci Blue | CC BY 2.0 I wasn\u2019t surprised that some of our leading \u201cthought leaders\u201d didn\u2019t know that Nigerians are among the most highly educated immigrants. I wasn\u2019t. I visited Nigeria in 1999 and met a number of intellectuals, scholars, and writers. Upon my return, I published two anthologies that included 41 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}