Masai Ujiri didn’t know what to say. He just didn’t. He kept quiet back in December when the New York Times reported that Donald Trump, the American President, had said that Haitians with U.S. visas “all had AIDS,” and that Nigerians in the United States would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America.
Ujiri fumed. He was furious, frankly. He kept quiet.
And then came Trump’s comments about Africa, made during a meeting this week over immigration policy at the White House. After arguing to keep Haiti out of a deal, Africa came up, and Trump said “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?