{"id":7136,"date":"2018-01-12T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2018-01-12T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T11:14:11","slug":"an-angry-nigerians-response-to-trumps-denigrating-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7136","title":{"rendered":"An angry Nigerian’s response to Trump’s denigrating comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Bob Akinola<\/strong>, in Washington D.C.
\nWhile I appreciate your consistent and continuous effort to remind me of who I really \u00a0am, and not to think too highly of myself (as if someone died and and put me in charge); I do not appreciate your, though relevant; but missionary cycle of everyday news cycle without addressing the prevailing core issue of our time.
\nThe president of the United State who happens to be a Republican; a party that my wife and I have unrepentantly and proudly been a part of even prior to becoming a Nigerian American for nearly two decades.
\nJust to absorb your shock, we did not even vote for Obama which is almost sacrilegious as an African American – especially first generation motherlanders like us.
\nAgainst all odds and probably too sensible to ignore, I have supported and continued to support President Donald Trump until today when after dropping off my kids from school and quickly picking up my wife from her first job to her second job (as embarrassingly unproud as I am as a husband because I have to pick her up at midnight after 16 hours a day work); I am ashamed of my President\u2019s comment; first, referring to my country of origin Nigeria as \u201c…return to their huts\u201d and ultimately confirming his heart disposition today by referring to \u201cus\u201d seemingly un-white and especially African countries as \u201cShithole countries\u201d.
\nThis is not just un-American; it is also un- presidential and vulgarly racist.
\nPresident Buhari\u2019s; I especially expect you to come out with your \u201cfull militant\u201d might and \u201cI don\u2019t give a damn reputation” and defend our beloved Nigerians and Nigerian Americans who shockingly are \u201cthe most educated immigrant in North American\u201d ahead of all Asians and Europeans.
\nTo Nigerian Americans, your legacy is doomed if you maintain, and not upset civility, by rallying all of us beyond our subdivision privileges and \u201cliving for billing\u201d diaspora dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Bob Akinola, in Washington D.C. While I appreciate your consistent and continuous effort to remind me of who I really \u00a0am, and not to think too highly of myself (as if someone died and and put me in charge); I do not appreciate your, though relevant; but missionary cycle of everyday news cycle without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}