The Hip Hop Anthropologist

 The podium at the United Nations, once a sanctum for statesmanship and sober reckoning, groaned pitifully beneath the weight of a bloated comic carnival barker in a baggy suit, flapping like an elderly circus seal for over fifty minutes. What was once a crucible for global consensus had been hijacked by a deranged ringmaster who mistook belligerence for strength, applause for legitimacy. The scaffolding of international alliances—delicate, deliberate, hard-won—was treated like stage décor, minus the cheap, gaudy, and fake Home Depot gold, for a soliloquy of self-congratulation, absent the blueprints of shared humanity; replaced by the crude etchings of grievance and vanity. It was not diplomacy; it was demolition dressed down in patriot drag, debased into a ledger of petty vendettas and theatrical chest-thumping. The world did not lean in to listen—it sat stunned, bracing for the next verbal Molotov hurled from a pulpit now repurposed as a bully’s balcony. The orange-tinged face o...

January 12, 2018 African Union Headquarters Ebba Kalondo, Spokesperson P.O. Box 3243 | Roosvelt Street (Old Airport Area) | W21K19 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: (251) 11 551 77 00 | Fax:(251) 11 551 78 44 | Webmaster: webmaster@africa-union.org Dear Madame Kalondo, As the African Union is well aware, the remarks attributed to the imposter at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue known widely as 'chump the brain-dead, comic carnival barker a/k/a klueless the klown' are not representative of how the vast majority of Americans feel about Africans. While we value diversity, 23% of the populace who voted for this abomination see pluralism in starker, more nihilistic terms. And for that small minority - i.e., lunatic fringe - of the American populace, I sincerely apologize to my beloved brothers and sisters in Africa. We are blood kin. And this unforgivable assault on Africans throughout the Diaspora violates all standards of decency. I remain, Sincere...