The more we learn about Rick Perry–whose campaign for US President seems to be stalling–the more we’re not surprised. This week we learn that Perry grew up in an almost all-white rural area in Texas where many referred to slingshots as “niggershooters.” And last week we learned of his hunting buddies:

After Rick Perry stopped visiting his N—-rhead camp, he still went hunting—with N word–using rocker Ted Nugent and a hunter whose best trophies came from what he calls “The Dark Continent” of Africa.

Source.

H/T: Brett.

Further Reading

Davido’s jacket

Davido’s appearance at ‘Amapiano’s biggest concert’ turned a night of celebration into a study in Afrophobia, fandom, and the fragile borders of South African cultural nationalism.

Empty riddles

Drawing on his forced migration from Rwanda, Serge Alain Nitegeka reflects on the forms, fragments, and unsettled histories behind his latest exhibition in Johannesburg.