AN ACTRESS FROM SCOTLAND RECENTLY WROTE A MEMOIR ABOUT
HER TIME IN ZAMBIA.
THE ONLY PROBLEM IS IT SEEMS LIKE SHE MADE UP A LOT OF THE
CONTENT IN THE BOOK AND MANY ARE SAYING THAT SOME OF HER CLAIMS
ARE RACIST.
THE WOMAN IN QUESTION IS LOUISE LINTON.
SHE HAD GONE TO ZAMBIA WHEN SHE WAS 18, BACK IN 1999.
I'M GOING TO READ YOU A FEW EXCERPTS SO YOU WILL GET A
SENSE OF WHAT SHE SAYS.
SOME ARE ARGUING THAT SHE HAS A WHITE SAVIOR COMPLEX,
ESPECIALLY COUPLED WITH THE FACT THAT SHE MAKES UP A BUNCH OF
STUFF ABOUT ZAMBIA IN HER BOOK.
LET ME GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES.
>>I CAN'T STAND HER.
EVEN BEFORE I READ THE
ALLEGATIONS, MY INNER BEN
MANKIEWICZ WAS SCREAMING NOT TRUE.
FIRST OF ALL, YOU ARE NOT THE CENTRAL CHARACTER IN THIS
COUNTRY.
NOBODY THINKS YOU'RE THE CENTRAL CHARACTER.
IT'S NOT LIKE PEOPLE IN ZAMBIA WERE LIKE, OH, SHE HAS ARRIVED.
>>BUT SHE HAS ANGEL HAIR, REVLON TOLD HER SO.
>> HOW MANY RACIST STEREOTYPES CAN HE PUT INTO A BOOK?
IF YOU NOTICE, SHE IS WORRIED ABOUT THE SAVAGES COMING OUT
OF THE BUSH AND GOD KNOWS WHAT THEY WOULD DO TO HER.
THAT WENT FROM BEING FUNNY TO BEING REPULSIVE.
THEN SHE IS FURTHERING THOSE STEREOTYPES.
>>IT'S LIKE SHE'S TRYING TO MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT EVERYONE
ELSE'S HAIR.
IT COMES OFF AS BAD.
THIS DIDN'T EVEN HAPPEN, IT IS NOT A WAR-TORN COUNTRY.
ZAMBIA IS WHERE MANY REFUGEES FROM AFRICA GO TO FOR REFUGE.
THEY WERE LIKE WHAT THE FUCK, WE AREN'T HAVING ISSUES HERE.
SHE TOTALLY MADE THESE THINGS UP.
HERE IS MY FAVORITE PART.
>>EVEN IF IT WAS TRUE, I WOULDN'T WRITE IT.
I WOULDN'T
SAY THE GREATEST JOY OF THE KID WITH HIV IS TO SIT IN MY LAP.
>>SHE CALLED HIM A GAP TOOTHED CHILD WITH HIV WHOSE GREATEST
JOY WAS TO SIT ON MY LAP AND DRINK COCA-COLA.
ARE YOU CRAZY?
>>HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT WAS HIS GREATEST JOY?
HE TAUGHT YOU ONE WORD.
BUT AS I READ THIS I THOUGHT-NOT TRUE.
WHAT WAS THAT OLD-SCHOOL MOVIE WHERE THE COKE DROPS DOWN INTO
AFRICA AND CHANGES THEIR CULTURE?
IT IS LIKE OUT OF A MOVIE.
THAT IS ALSO A COKE AD.
>>SHE HAS A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO
HEIDI MONTAG.
DOESN'T SHE?
HERE ARE
SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS SHE LIED ABOUT.
SHE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT THIS DENSE JUNGLE CANOPY.
ZAMBIA IS NOT REALLY A JUNGLE
AREA, IT IS MOSTLY WOODED
GRASSLAND SAVANNAS.
MAYBE SHE MISTOOK THE JUNGLE FOR THAT.
AGAIN, IT IS NOT A WAR-TORN COUNTRY.
>>SHE HAD MADE UP ACCOUNTS OF MACHETE WELDING CHILD
SOLDIERS, WHICH WERE NEVER IN ZAMBIA.
SHE IS A MESS.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS SHE SAID SHE LEARNED,
" AFRICA IS RIFE WITH HIT ENDANGERED."
THAT IS ACTUALLY NOT TRUE.
YES, THERE IS A LOT OF DANGER COULD DEPENDING ON THE COUNTRY
YOU ARE IN.
LOOK AT THE PROBLEMS NIGERIA HAS AND SOMALIA, IT IS NOT REALLY
HIDDEN.
IN HER MIND, IT WAS LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO AFRICA TO SAVE IT.
EVEN IF SHE IS BEING COMPLETELY HONEST, SHE IS AN UTTER MORON.
WHO IS THAT STUPID?
IT TURNS OUT NOT EVERYTHING IS AS SAFE.
THAT IS A BREAKING NEWS ALERT.
SHE GOES TO A COUNTRY THAT IS ACTUALLY RELATIVELY SAFE IN
AFRICA AND MAKES UP STUFF ABOUT IT ANYWAY.
>> HERE'S THE PART THAT ALSO ANNOYS ME.
WHO PUBLISHED HER BOOK?
HERE IS THE THING, THE PROCESS OF WRITING A BOOK IS PROBABLY
THE MOST ANNOYING PROCESS IN THE WORLD.
I PLAN ON HUNDRED AND 50 WEDDINGS IN A MONTH OVER
HAVING TO WORK WITH BOOK PUBLISHERS AGAIN.
THE REASON WHY IS THAT YOU MAKE THE REVISIONS THEY ASK FOR, AND
THEN THEY SAY I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU 58 OTHER REVISIONS, OKAY?
AND THEN THEY GIVE YOU MORE REVISIONS, AND MORE REVISIONS.
IT'S LIKE FUCK YOU.
I WANT TO DEAL WITH YOU ANYMORE.
THAT'S WHAT IT IS LIKE PUBLISHING A BOOK.
HOW DID THEY LET HER PUBLISH A BOOK?
>>I KNOW PEOPLE THAT HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK HAS GONE
THROUGH THE SAME FRUSTRATION THAT ANA IS TALKING ABOUT.
IT IS ENORMOUSLY FRUSTRATING AND DIFFICULT.
BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO WRITE A BOOK WITH RACIST TROPES ABOUT
THE BLACK MEN AND HOW HE NEEDS TO BE CIVILIZED, THAT IS GOING
TO GET PUBLISHED RIGHT AWAY.
NO ONE IS GOING TO FACT CHECK YOU.
SHE ALSO WROTE THAT SHE HAD TO SURVIVE MONSOON SEASON.
IS A LAND LOCKED COUNTRY IN AFRICA, THERE IS NO MONSOON
SEASON.
THAT IS WHY BEN CARSON MAKES UP STORIES ABOUT HOW VIOLENT HE
IS AND HOW HE HAD TO BE CIVILIZED WITH CHRISTIANITY,
AND HE HAD TO PROTECT WHITE PEOPLE DURING A BLACK RIOT.
BUT THEY DIDN'T BOTHER FACT CHECKING.
BY THE WAY, THERE ARE CONSERVATIVE BOOK COMPANIES THAT
ARE IN THE BUSINESS OF PRINTING LIES FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
THEY ARE NOT PAYING FOR THE TRUTH, THEY ARE PAYING FOR THE
LIVES.
IF THEY FACT CHECKED IT IT WOULD BE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
>> I JUST CAN'T DEAL WITH IT.
AND FINALLY, THE LAST BIT OF THIS IS WHO SHE IS DATING.
APPARENTLY SHE IS DATING THE PERSON THAT TRUMP HAS CHOSEN
FOR HIS FINANCE CHAIRMAN.
>>OF COURSE SHE IS.
NO CONNECTION, IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT THIS GIGANTIC
LIAR THAT DOES NOTHING BUT RACIST TROPES IN HER BOOK IS
DATING SOMEONE CONNECTED TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.
WHAT A WILD COINCIDENCE.
YES, GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE, AND ALSO RACIST AND SMALL
MINDS THINK ALIKE.