Today, in honor of Black History Month, a staff member at my college gave a presentation on Liberia. The presentation was well-attended and thorough and interesting. At one point, the presenter showed a slide explaining that, in the heyday of colonialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Liberia and Ethiopia were the only two African nations not annexed, colonized, or otherwise exploited by Western powers. Instead of finding this inspiring, however, all I could hear was Donald Trump's voice in my head, saying, "That's disgraceful! Disgraceful! Now if I had been president back then, we woulda had one-hundred percent colonization of Africa! Am I right? It woulda been unbelievable!"
This campaign is really getting to me.
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