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 ..."
>They call them "obroni wawu" — dead white man's clothes.
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.
> 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.
> They call them “obroni wawu” — dead white man’s clothes.
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.
I've only heard that word "whiteness" in the mouth of 2 kind of people, neonazis and their racist counter part on the left.