Yvette Carnell: Sec. of State Hillary Clinton Is Boogying to the Beat in S. Africa, I Guess
by Yvette Canell
Too often, official visits of U.S. government emissaries to Africa end up looking like this:
And, at least in this instance, it’s impossible to solely blame Sec. of State Clinton, because she’s not the one snapping photos and zipping them back to her U.S. bureau chief. This is the continent of Africa seen through the prism of white media, and it’s always the same; black indigenous people teaching stuffed Western shirts how boogy to the beat. *sigh*
In an article entitled, 9 Signs the Journalism You’ve Just Encountered is Trash, Imran Garda laments:
If a political report devotes a substantial chunk of attention to tribal dancing, and “vibrant African music” — beware. You wouldn’t sample the nightclubs and “vibrant American music” in Adams Morgan when doing a piece on Democrats and Republicans arguing over the U.S. budget. Just like the sky is the sky in Africa and not the African sky, music is music in Africa and not African music. And if music wasn’t vibrant, well then it’s probably not music.
But alas, here we go again. I haven’t heard much from most mainstream media outlets on what Sec. of State Clinton is actually doing in Africa, only a blurb here and there, but I know those Negroes over there can cut a rug, right?
Remember Dubya:
Now check out Hillary:
These videos are awkward, and hard to watch for all sorts of reasons, but saddest for me is knowing that, somewhere in America, there’s a group of black women cackling with laughter as they yell, “Go, Hillary Go! Get ‘em girl!”
The coverage of African countries is, as always, monolithic and childlike. All this video needs are flies landing on the face of some emaciated and starving child , and the narrative would be complete. Because that’s all Africans do right? Dance, kill each other, and starve? No one’s starving in Latvia, I assume? And the folks over in Kosovo never dance? Yeah. Whatever.
It all just makes you wonder when Africans will be seen as full bodied and complex people, as opposed to caricatures. Maybe when those women stop cackling, and when the women in the video stop egging on Hillary to cut a rug. That’d certainly be a beginning. We’ll see.
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Oh, please thats what we do! Dance, sing and all around are rhythmic people
It was funny and I wish all the white people would turn black so they could look just like us and maybe it wouldn’t seem so odd or stereotypical. If you want us to see other sides of Africa then show them instead publicizing the so-called “stereotype”
Oh, lighten up! You would be more offended if Hilary didn’t join in, and you know it!
Only when black people take themselves seriously wii they be taken serious. Hillary is in Africa, telling black people to be careful about their relationship with China. !. This should be considered a threat to the African Continent from rhe United States and the West. African cannot determine, or not competent to make desision for their future interest, therefore Mrs. Clinton, must go over and warn them about their relationship with China. Well who is warning the black people of the United States and its western Allies treatment of black people. We already know the treatment of the western nation treatment of black people throuhout our history. We can now make our own deision on who to do business with.
We have been mistreated by the west for the last two thousand years. I think we can choose the nations we want to have good relations with.
Africa is a continent of competent people they do not need Hillary and Obama, to tell them who they should be friendly with. At least we know the pain the west has caused black folk, we do not need to be reminded. Hopefully the African will tell hwe where to go.
Hillary is a super rich con-artist/thief..She and Bill Clinton make a good team, but you’re wrong about the competence of the people of the African Diaspora! We “blacks” are a very confused, superstitious, ignorant and naive bunch here and in our native land.
We were never prepared for people like Hillary, Bill, George, and all of the rest! Our ancestors were not prepared, and it is obvious that our memories are short and we are filled with too much BS to tell when we’re being lied to and conned!
China’s politicians have began to do what the Europeans have been doing since ‘forever’. China now has the ability to pillage smaller countries just like England, US, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, France, and others have always done!
Hillary is one of the many representative “surrogates” of the US/English “Anglo-elite”, and they are merely trying to push back on China’s attempt at ‘colonialism’! The US has it hands in the pockets of almost every country imaginable and those that the ‘US elite’ have not broken down are manipulated by it’s sister nations, or Russia or now…China!
Soon India may try it’s hand at colonialism because thanks to our stolen tax wealth it’s fake leaders are richer and more powerful, but India maybe not because American/British elite still puppeteer India. China and India have a combined 3 billion people in their population so they will try to spread and take what they can if they are allowed to by the crafty Anglos who have been doing this like I said..”Forever”!
If you’ve ever studied the Roman era or at least watched or read some of the fictional/reality laced material, you might understand the kind of politicians Julius Caesar and his kind of people dealt with. The people then were very ignorant, superstitious, and misguided, (as people generally are). The politicians were selfish, greedy, treacherous, devious, lying, backstabbers then, as they are today!
Some of you don’t trust people you know, people in your families, or even people you consider your friends. How in the h**l could you trust any, and I mean any politician? You don’t know these people up close and personal, and you never will!
These political and government types are living and thriving in a cutthroat environment where they would throw their own family members under the bus! The kind of people who make good politicians and government leaders are not to be trusted under any circumstance. So if you do trust any of them, you should know that you are part of a long tradition of ignorant “believers” who are apt to believe almost anything, and sometimes never see the reality of their mental condition until it is too late, or sometimes never! That is compared to living a childlike fantasy. How does it feel to believe in politicians and government officials while they scheme to steal your tax wealth and use it to make themselves and the actual “owners” of this country wealthier? You can’t feel it because you ignorantly believe otherwise, because you believe practically all of the B.S. they have fed you sense birth! And it all seems so real. Doesn’t it? And you wonder what’s wrong with “black” people? Well lol!
The racist stereotypical images of Europeans going native with the natives…..absolutely no self respecting Afrikans would indulge in this stupid and pathetic buffoonery.Hillary was there to counter China’s influence in Afrika.
Yvette Cannell others do not see what you see and I’m glad they do not. Music is what kept slaves a live and helped them to endure the hardships. Music also caused whites to see Africans as people in essence it crossed the color line and built a bridge between people. Hillary is definitely enjoying herself and her smile is real. Expecting Hillary to save Africa is like begging for welfare.
It’s up to the Africans to make the best deal for themselves and for Hillary to present the US as best she can. I’m quite sure Africans won’t make a decision based on Hilary’s dancing. There is a time for dancing as well as a time for serious matters. I also find your reference to the blacks dancing as buffonery totally disrespectful and demeaning to blacks here. I see you as a part of the problem with such remarks and not as a solution.
Paul you are right on point, we don’t have any confidence in our own intelligence,so how can we expect others to.