Nigerian author and renowned feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was on BBC Newsnight discussing the outcome of the American Presidential election with R. Emmett Tyrrell, editor-in-chief of a conservative magazine, American Spectator.

During the discussion, BBC reporter Emily Maitlis noted that some Republicans like Paul Ryan have acknowledged the racist language President-elect Donald Trump tends to favor. Tyrrell immediately got defensive.

"That’s not true. He hasn’t been racist," Tyrrell said, ignoring many of the racist things Donald Trump has said and done.

Thankfully, Adichie corrected him, saying, “I am sorry, but if you are a white man, you don’t get to define what racism is. You really don’t."

And although Tyrrell attempted to defend Trump, she brilliantly continued her shut down, "No, you don’t get to sit there and say that he hasn’t been racist when objectively, he has."

She added that, "racism is an objective reality, and Donald Trump has inhabited that reality."

You have to watch the whole thing for a lesson in how to speak truth to power.

KingRex1:
Did anyone notice her body language and deceptive smiles? She made valid points tho.

But saying a white man doesnt get to define what's racist doesn't seem fair.

LRNZH:


She's probably referring to the concept of 'white privilege'.

Most whites, especially males, don't understand the advantage they have over everybody else by being in the majority.

It takes extraneous circumstances to see segregation when you are in the dominant class of the society.

slimthugchimee:
useless woman

LRNZH:
"No, you don’t get to sit there and say that he hasn’t been racist when objectively, he has."



Here's the clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eloHoAvArCo

Source: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8285050/chimamanda-adichies-donald-trump-racist/

goingape1:
this stvpid woman again!


go change your Virginia to penisss if it affect you so much!


deadbrain

Haute:
Raine80 says I'm Donald Trump, now I feel hated. And everywhere I look I see people giving me the "ah go break ya head" face.

Raine80, come and remove this Donald Trump spell o.

hahn:
Black people speaking up against the same thing they do to themselves

kingthreat:
Who cares about the views of a erosion region woman, who is a
Pro-Atheist
Pro-Homosexuality (She was into licky licky in UNN)
Anti-Yoruba, Anti-North
Pro-Biafra
And tells dry stories.