Melania Trump raises eyebrows in Africa with another white hat

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | October 5, 2018 | Katie Rogers

[artichokegrower]

A half a world away from the spectacle of Washington, Melania Trump still managed to create one of her own during a Kenyan safari on Friday, riding out into the grassland wearing a crisp white pith helmet — a common symbol of European colonial rule.

[poconopundit]

Excellent comparison. The cheekbone structure is similar.

[VeniVidiVici]

LOL! Snowflakes are so funny!!

[Dr. Ursus]

This from a city that you have to scrap the human feces off your shoes!

[kenmcg]

One of the most beautiful women in the world wears a white hat and the fake new is offended. F’em!

[trebb]

And if she wore a black beret she would have been condescending....

[ncalburt]

This fat ugly lesbian reporter is jealous of pur beautiful snd. nice first lady
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Screw off you bitter ugly lesbo.

[I want the USA back]

Controversy invented out of spite and hate because Trump just won and got his choice confirmed for the Supreme Court. This is fake phony fraud, like everything else in the media.

[SmokingJoe]

What a load of hogwash about nothing from the New York Slimes. I notice that every single person they quoted was some far left academic in some American university or the other. A totally conjured up “controversy “ about nothing.
I doubt if the school kids in Ghana that Melania met are even thinking about white helmets and colonialism, given that Ghana got their independence from the British in 1957, long before even their parents were born, and neither the US nor Slovenia or Yougoslavia had anything to do with colonialism in Africa. All this sh*t about a white hat? For goodness sake!

[Phillyred]

Once again the media projects what they think but no one else does. It’s hot in Africa. White people burn! White reflects the sun best. Not that complicated.

[niteowl77]

You’re right. Unless the wearer is a republican. Then it becomes rife with symbolism of hatred and oppression.

Were she a Democrat's wife, there would be no escaping her likeness in the entirety of the media. Situational symbolism... if the left didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.

I personally thought Melania's outfit (w or w/o pith helmet) was both practical and flattering.

Mr. niteowl77

[Dont tread and Live]

perhaps a red MAGA should have been chosen? Ha!

[Big Red Badger]

Michael going “Camando!”

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yea. Of course she looked good in it.

[Eagles6]

Sanitation, Western medicine...

[thoughtomator]

... iron working, agriculture, a written alphabet...

[Eagles6]

Pretty much all human advancement since the bronze age.

[thoughtomator]

they didn’t learn to make bronze on their own either, keep going

we’re talking wooden spears and stone tools is what they had on their own

[Eagles6]

True.

[Verginius Rufus]

Melania needs to be offering an apology for the sordid history of oppressing the indigenous peoples in Slovenia’s African colonies.

[Jacob Kell]

I think that yahoo is from an CanadianUniversity. But, yeah.