{"id":46228,"date":"2018-10-23T08:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T08:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=46228"},"modified":"2018-10-23T08:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T08:10:02","slug":"chimamanda-adichie-refers-to-trumps-wife-melania-as-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/chimamanda-adichie-refers-to-trumps-wife-melania-as-a-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimamanda Adichie refers to Trump’s wife Melania as a \u2018Racist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018yes\u2019. I think she is racist\u201d. She declared.<\/p>\n

When asked if she thought Melania Trump was racist, she answered in the positive with reference to Melania\u2019s recent visit to Africa. She said:<\/p>\n

\u201cHad you asked me this question yesterday, I would have said \u2018yes\u2019 and my evidence would be that she supported her husband when he was being incredibly racist to Barack Obama. But I just watched an interview that she gave and I was just appalled by it.<\/p>\n

She sort of stepped out of a colonial 1750 guidebook about how to be in Africa. There\u2019s a pith helmet and then I am thinking maybe this is supposed to be ironic? Maybe it is a critique of colonialism. She really thought this is what you do when you go to Africa and it says something about someone who is so removed from reality\u201d.<\/p>\n

Adichie went on to reference a jacket Melania wore to one of the US children immigration camps which read \u201cI really don\u2019t care: Do you?\u201d and caused a media frenzy.<\/p>\n

She said, \u201cand I remember when the media made a lot of noise about that jacket. I remember actually kind of being on her side when all that noise was happening. I thought she doesn\u2019t know, she couldn\u2019t possibly do this knowingly. She did, so the answer to your question is \u2018yes\u2019. I think she is racist\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prominent novelist and writer, Chimamanda Adichie has referred to United States First Lady, Melania Trump as a racist. Adichie made the statement in a recent interview with international magazine, Esquire UK where she talked about her stance on feminism, Melania Trump\u2019s visit to Africa and racism. \u2018yes\u2019. I think she is racist\u201d. She declared. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2201,582,2202],"class_list":["post-46228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chimamanda-adichie","tag-donald-trump","tag-melania-trump","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}