Melania Trump raises eyebrows in Africa with another white hat

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | October 5, 2018 | Katie Rogers

[artichokegrower]

A half a world away from the spectacle of Washington, Melania Trump still managed to create one of her own during a Kenyan safari on Friday, riding out into the grassland wearing a crisp white pith helmet — a common symbol of European colonial rule.

[artichokegrower]

The horror,

[lurk]

Everyone is offended today. So we might as well ignore them.

[Williams]

Are they confiscating white pith helmets now?

[lurk]

Everyone is offended today. So we might as well ignore them.

[Secret Agent Man]

So what?

Lotsa blacks over there walk around wearing berets and other hats that are european design.

Maybe if the blacks stop appropriating white culture items they’d have some authenticity in their own claims.

[donna]

These people are living in Political Correctness Land.

President Trump already burn that land down.

[thoughtomator]

Other symbols of European colonial rule include food.

[Williams]

The NYT writer of this article is a pos who should rot in hell.

[artichokegrower]

“It’s like showing up to a meeting of African-American cotton farmers in a Confederate uniform,” Matthew Carotenuto, a coordinator of African Studies at St. Lawrence University, wrote on Twitter. “Historical context matters.”

She should not be riding in a motor vehicle either as it is and example of white technology.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

It’s hot in Africa.

You don’t wear black.

[Jane Long]

Raises eyebrows???

Was Justin Trudeau a part of the entourage?

[dfwgator]

“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Europeans ever done for us?”

[Fai Mao]

The ultimate bit of European stuff damaging local culture:

Wait for it

Invented in that Socialist utopia the USSR

AK-47

It has probably killed more former colonials than the British Raj ever did.

[niteowl77]

I thought a white pith helmet was a “symbol” of keeping one’s head cool(er) in a warm climate. Crazy me.

[weston]

In one of the videos I saw two black male locals with the same white pith hats.
Fake outrage of entitled liberal journalists, most of whom are white.

[Vendome]

Sexy

[Blood of Tyrants]

They got rid of that oppressive symbol in Zimbabwe.

[dfwgator]

[Blood of Tyrants]

Well, did she look good?

[gundog]

The G3 and FAL are pretty big on the Dark Continent, as well.