It's not just whites that buy and discard clothes in the western world. Why does the title racialize the problem? A better title would have been "Charity clothes from the West fuel ..."
An editor still chose a controversial title, to "maximize engagement". Whatever these people call it doesn't justify the title of that feature piece.
I think this constant race baiting and divisiveness western media chose to engage into will help no one on the long run, only further resentment and race strife.
The article claims to translate the Akan term for these clothes:
> In Ghana, they call them “obroni wawu” — dead white man’s clothes.
However, a language blogger [1] suggests that "obroni" can refer to any foreigner from "beyond the horizon" - so presumably the term encompasses dead East Asian man's clothes too.
> Not all western countries define their societies along racial
Yes, those other western countries are 90-99% white so whiteness is overtly implied since any other race is an anomaly. You probably haven't been asked the notorious 6-worded question, "but where are you really from?" that seems to only happen to people of color in western European countries.
> mainly US society who engages in that behavior.
Yes, racism is literally written into the constitution of the US with many compromises for slaveholding states at the time of its founding.
