By David Maillu
Published December 3, 2024
It was historic that on 12 February 2018 Donald Trump, the President of the United States of America and the most powerful nation on earth, during a meeting about protections for immigrants from Haiti, shocked the world by calling Haiti and African states shithole countries.
The abuse from such man sunk into bones of any black person, trying to grasp the enormity of such blatant disrespect to the black race. It was a cold blood racism. The abuse overlooked the fact that, even back home in the States, without the labour force of slaves from Africa, the economy of the United States of America would not be where it is today. Personally I, as a Blackman, writer and thinker, the statement gave me a grave blow.
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Then followed the silence from the so-called shithole nations. No African President, except the dead Ghadaffi and Robert Mugabe would dare question Donald Trump because he is a god. I thought I should use my gift in art, on behalf of black people, to tell President Trump and the worlds what African heads can’t tell him.
As a writer and artist, I thought that unbearable human-hate statement should be given a permanent international social landmark for the people from Trump’s shithole nations. I thought of marking that landmark by building a giant Donald Trump sculpture housing two real and practical shithole chambers. A male shithole chamber and a female shithole chamber, whereby the two chambers carry whatever practical amenities for comfortable business in the chamber. The shitholes would be open to the public in memory of President Trump’s racial abuse. Behind the Trump’s front image, is a small lodge house to accommodate any visitor interested in the Trump’s shithole accommodation.
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I embarked on the giant project when President Trump was in office but a shortage of resources slowed me down, leaving the giant Trump’s chest body headless and the unfinished head laying on the ground at the workshop. The sculpture is punctuated by a crucifixion structure bearing a caption saying, “President Donald Trump Shithole” with an arrow pointing at the image. When Trump went out of office the impetus slowed down, perhaps to symbolize his resurrection into power. Now that he is back in power. I want to finish the project for its launch to coincide with President Trump’s second inauguration. I have written a small novella to be published for visitors to buy and read the spirit behind the sculpture.
I build the sculpture also in my capacity as the President of African Spirituality to symbolize my leadership to African noble elders to join me in sacrificing President Donald Trump to powers of our ancestral spirits.
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