Grand Imperial Hotel is next to the tallest building in this image.
Grand Imperial Hotel is next to the tallest building in this image. Lingbee/gettyimages.com

In this incident—which recently occurred at the Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala, Uganda—we have the three basic components of American conservatism in full and ugly American force: militarism, racism, and Christianity. The white man in the video is Jimmy Taylor, an American pastor, missionary, and Vietnam vet. He wears a veteran cap. He chases and repeatedly hits a black African hotel employee named Francis. The employee does not defend himself. He can only fold his arms, not be threatening, and be hit—blow, after blow, after blow, after blow. He must take it because good and secure jobs are hard to find in poor Africa. It is also understood that the likeliness of the white man being arrested or charged is very low. But eventually the police had to do something because the video of the assault went viral. (It is reported that during the arrest, the pastor spat on the black officers.)


Francis is called nigger several times. The white pastor accuses him of hating Jesus, who died for his nigger bitch sins. The pastor says: "Jesus is tired of [black] disobedience." The pastor warns that Francis and the other niggers are going to be killed in three days. Why? Because blacks are not humans. The pastor is the king of the Grand Imperial Hotel.

The whole incident exposed the raw white supremacist roots of American militarism and Evangelism. Taylor is not crazy; he is only, in a moment of intoxicated clarity, conducting the essence of the American right. Recall that copper is an excellent conductor of electricity because it offers very low resistance to charged particles. With Pastor Taylor, the medium that presents very little resistance to his Jesus-charged racism is he being white in a very poor black country. Taylor has supreme power; he knows he can do and say what he wants. He can hit a nigger fearlessly. He never expected to be arrested.