Omarosa — Thanks, and No Thanks. You’re helpful, but not a martyr.
Why Omarosa Newman’s recent revelations about the President of the United State’s attitudes and actions are as welcomed as they are repulsive.
Thanks. It’s quite likely that you’re well aware that Omarosa Newman — President, Donald J. Trump’s former White House Aide — has been on a tell-all, scorched earth, no prisoners, rampage over the course of the past few weeks. If you’re not, take some time to familiarise yourself because she has claimed the following: Trump has casually used N-word, used racial epithets to describe Puerto Ricans during Hurricane Maria, “covets” his daughter, Ivanka and so forth — but most importantly, has audio evidence of her claims. In all, assuming one were to take these at face value — recordings and all — these are rather damming. At the same time, there are some issues.
Currently Omarosa is receiving a number of threats in and outside of the White House for her public displays, speeches and works against the President. Regardless of my opinion of her motives, I have long touted the courageous whistleblower, especially in federal politics, who bemoans against injustice, travesty and inconceivable threats to their respective people as hero(ines) and champions. In a free society — such that are the ideals of the United States — people must be protected against the state’s fury when acting on behalf of the public and when it does not cause literal harm. While unearthing threats against democracy and the many freedoms held and vested in the various constitutional and inalienable rights for which we all hold, we must remain vigilant — given if these claims are valid — in facilitating the expression of these ideals, regardless of motive.
For these reasons, and given that I believe what Omarosa is saying, I support her recent actions. A Head of State that, as she has stated and evidences, holds outwardly prejudicial ideals against their own people [another discussion is how he describes those ‘not’ his people] is important knowledge for the public to hold and be made aware of. It’s quite likely that these sentiments — if gathered — would result in a different opinion of the President.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COM7Vh1lIMw
But It was already quite clear to anyone who cared to employ a minimum level of reasoning that each of her revelations were determined true as far back as the election campaign — at least as it relates to the racial and ethnic prejudices.
No Thanks, because Omarosa had, until recently, been more than complicit with these ideals and ethics — she was a part of their employment and actioning for quite some time. Between the campaign and her tell-all book, Trump had called Mexican’s rapists, had said that Nigerians live in huts, that all Haitians have AIDS, and that a number of nations of darker skinned people were sh*tholes and so forth.
Despite this, even prior to her relationship with trump as a staffer and campaign associate, Trump had spent years attempting to discredit our previous President, Barrack Obama, through birtherism and denouncing his Kenyan heritage as that of related to terrorism, miseducation, fraud and unfit to lead the nation — on the basis of his race and ethnicity. It is to the surprise of few people of colour that Donald Trump — prior, during and now — is a racist.
Nonetheless, it took until Omarosa was reportedly dragged out of the White House and fired from her lavish $179k position as an undefined, unregulated and largely disregarded public liaison to do or say anything. This being said, given that this public liaison position was offered to her, in my opinion, as a means by the White House to employ an African American that can be paraded around the stations but who holds no loyalty, allegiance or faithfulness to any cause that could or would benefit them. It was a win-win for both sides and now that tides have turned and waves bolster ahead she has attempted to make herself into a civil rights proponent does not and will not tolerate racism and bigotry.
This is a facade. This is distasteful. This is atrocious.
Yet, though, I digress, because there is nuance to all things and we do not and should not symbolise anything as binary. Omarosa is not simply an opportunist or temporiser. She is whistleblower and bringer of light. She is complex, much like her book and her time between now and when she first engaged the campaign. For those reasons, I thank her. I thank her for her willingness to shine light on a man so willing to deconstruct these United States through prejudice, bigotry, xenophobia and miseducation.
At the same time I recognise that she is no martyr, her motives are not pure; just as how not one of us is perfect, I can see each of these statements/truths simultaneously and hold her as a flawed human being and one that may very well be an integral and meaningful part of the continued history of this country.
I want her to speak on and I want you to know that she is no altruistic champion, but a warrior nonetheless.
