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Opinion

How US Foreign Policy Creates Shithole Countries

Using Immigrants to Shame American Blacks

During the whirlwind of discussion following President Trump’s describing African countries as “shitholes,” many of his critics demonstrated that they’d succumbed to the same stereotypes as the president.

January 30th, 2018
Ishmael Scott Reed
January 30th, 2018
By Ishmael Scott Reed

Opinion -- I wasn’t surprised that some of our leading “thought leaders” didn’t know that Nigerians are among the most highly educated immigrants. I wasn’t. I visited Nigeria in 1999 and met a number of intellectuals, scholars, and writers. Upon my return, I published two anthologies that included 41 Nigerian writers, selected and edited by

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