Well here’s the thing; why doesn’t Donald Trump go back to where he came from? …Jamaica. That’s right! After doing some research I found out that Donald Trump was in fact born in the Jamaica Hospital. You honestly could not make this up! It makes his levels of hypocrisy towards Obama’s birth certificate gravitate towards heights previously thought unobtainable. I guess it explains his overuse of foundation, which unfortunately for him isn’t opaque enough and turns his complexion orange. In addition to this, his attempts to bleach and straighten his afro have been an undeniable disaster. It’s very clear to me, that as a Afro-Caribbean man so obviously ashamed of his ethnicity, Trump has created a faux white supremacist persona in order to appeal to the white males in power.
This jaw-dropping revelation at Trump’s transracial status has made me feel a little more empathetic towards the man. As a male PoC living in current day America, it’s easy to understand why he would feel the need to ‘correct’ his appearance in the eyes of his peers. Instead of growing up in an environment where he could be proud of his own culture and heritage, he has been forced to live a lie. I have no doubt that his decision to adopt a white identity is born from a place of deep insecurity and self-denial. Being born in the 1940s, his transracial status, unlike that of Rachel Dolezal, is likely an affectation he maintained as a child as a survival mechanism. As the years went by and his popularity grew, it became more and more difficult to cast off.