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As tempting as it would be to say it ‘finally happened’ it would be inaccurate. Donald Trump didn’t ‘finally’ take off his robe and reveal himself a full-blown racist by tweeting that four congresswomen of colour (three of whom were born in America – the other being a naturalised citizen) should ‘go home’ and then doubling down on that rhetoric at a campaign rally last night. Quite the contrary – he has revealed himself a racist repeatedly throughout his presidency, his candidacy to become president, his decades as a leading celebrity and as a business man – dating all the way back to the 70s. From retweeting the fascist group Britain First to claiming Barack Obama, the first black president, is not really American to calling a contestant on his show an ‘Uncle Tom,’ to denying rental of his properties to black tenants… this is just standard stuff from Trump. And he did not become the President of the United States of America despite being racist: he became president because he is racist. Racism has long been a vote winner. What was interesting about this weekend’s outburst was the use of the term ‘go home’. There was something uniquely seemingly un-American about this particular type of language. Barring two sets of people – native Americans and descendants of enslaved African-Americans – every American descends from immigrants who migrated to America in search of refuge, freedom and/or a better life. Refuge, freedom and/or a better life founded upon the genocide of native Americans and the forced migration as well as inter-generational enslavement of African Americans. Hence the term ‘go-home’ should not be near anyone’s lips – especially in America. Certainly not an American of Scottish and German stock – such as Donald Trump. And it certainly should not be aimed at women of colour – especially black women. And especially not elected congresswomen. In contrast, this ‘go-home’ language – in the context of nationality as opposed to neighbourhood – is something minority ethnic Britons are very familiar with and accustomed to. On a polite day it often goes something like: ‘if you don’t like such and such why don’t you just go home?’ The term ‘go-home’ should not be near anyone’s lips (Picture: AP) Its iterations on an impolite day are not printable. Most if not all ethnic minorities have heard these phrases. The purpose of ‘go home’ always hits the spot. It always meets its intended target: to delegitimise; to damage, to other, to silence, to belittle and to put you in your place. It reminds you that you should be ‘grateful’, that you don’t really belong here. Go-home often has three key impacts: the first is that it forces the ‘recipient’ of the comment to stomach or smile-off the embarrassment and live with the shame. Shame that will eat you up and make you question what you did wrong and blame yourself. The second impact is to force you to overcompensate for being British or being here and a great way of doing this is by turning on people just like you. The sight of an Asian man on Question Time a few seasons ago shouting at the panel that Asians, such as himself – should be ‘re-tested’ and possibly deported as ‘people with faces like’ his have ‘ruined the country’ was shocking. This felt like a person just overcompensating for being British or being here. The third key impact of go-home is that it can potentially cause you to reject mainstream society as something you belong to and which belongs to you. You start to doubt your place in Britain. This too can push you to more extreme and easily exploitable wings of society. For a long time ‘go-home’ had been relegated to the fringes of British society. Then came Home Secretary Theresa May. She took ‘go home’ back from the fringes, placed it on the side of vans and had those vans driving round ethnically diverse areas of London – specifically Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hounslow, and Redbridge – for a month. Even Nigel Farage, then leader of UKIP and hardly a friend of immigrants he does not have carnal knowledge of (i.e. his German wife – now ex-wife), labelled the vans ‘nasty’. It should of course be noted that the vans explicitly said: ‘In the UK illegally?’, which means that they were targeting people without the appropriate documentation to be here. It however would be a stretch of good faith to believe that it was just a coincidence that the vans did not target areas of high predominantly white immigration of the not-so-frowned-upon variety (e.g. Australians and New Zealanders) – why didn’t we see them in Putney? Given the above, it came as a huge surprise to see the same Theresa May, now our dearly derided out-going prime minister, condemning Trump’s use of her old ‘go home’ trump card as ‘completely unacceptable’. More: Theresa May Theresa May speaks of ‘deep regret’ over Brexit failure Brexit weakens pound to worst-performing major currency in the world Theresa May lashes out at Donald Trump during final days in office Reading her words felt hypocritical. It felt like I was reading words that have no relationship with reality or seriousness or anti-racism whatsoever. Just hollow and meaningless words. Words that had to be said to tick a box. When you remember the horrors of the hostile environment and the destitution, deportations and deaths of the Windrush scandal, Theresa May’s ‘completely unacceptable’ words feel even more hollow. ‘Go-home’ is the sharp edge of the razor that is racism. It cuts deep when Donald Trump uses it just as it did when Theresa May slapped it on to the side of some vans. It affects not just the recipient but the cohesiveness of our society. As a black person in Britain I am often left wondering: is that the entire point? Nels Abbey is a media executive, writer and satirist based in London. His first book ‘Think Like a White Man’ is in all good non-racist book shops and sites now. MORE: Theresa May lashes out at Donald Trump during final days in office MORE: Donald Trump is not allowed to block followers on Twitter, court rules MORE: Couple who loves Donald Trump had Make America Great Again-themed wedding
