On Election Day 2016, I urged all my friends to go out and vote for Donald Trump with the following message:
“Get out and vote for the unborn fetus, get out and vote for God ordained marriage between a man and a woman, get out and vote against transgender bathrooms, get out and vote against Roe V Wade, get out and vote for Donald J. Trump! He might not be perfect, but he will promote those conservative values that have kept a check on the moral fabric of society and nominate conservative Supreme Court Justices,”
’I had called. So many African Americans and Black Africans were
appalled by my support for Donald Trump ever since my interview on the
BBC on November 1st, 2016 when I called for Africans and others eligible
to vote in the US elections to vote Donald Trump.
And why were my people so appalled? Because we are an emotional people
who take decisions based on what we want right now rather than what we
want eventually. Most African Americans voted for Hillary because they
bought into the lie peddled by the mainstream media that Trump is a
racist. Most Black Africans supported Hillary because they did not want
Trump to clamp down on immigration into the US.
But my people failed to take into account the big picture! What are our
cultural values as a Race? Do we as Black people, whether African
American or Black African, really support gay rights and gay marriage?
Trust our copy cat culture, if Hillary had been elected she would have
strengthened the gay marriage lobby and her Supreme Court nominees would
have made it a reality and the next thing you know we would want to
copy it hook line and sinker.
As a race, we suffer disproportionately from abortions more than any
other race in America. African Americans and Black Africans make up 13%
of the US populations yet 37% of all abortions in the US are done by
Black women. It has gotten to the point where the most dangerous place
for a Black child to be is in its own mother’s womb! Can we afford to
continue with such a shameful record?
We need somebody that is committed to ending Roe V Wade and outlawing
the practice of on demand abortion. I believe in a woman’s right to
choose but that right is asserted by any woman the minute she chooses to
have unprotected sex.
But let me get technical. What did Hillary Clinton do for Nigeria or
Africa when she was Secretary of State? My people are just too
sentimental and forget how she dithered and resisted naming Boko Haram
as a terrorist group. We have forgotten how she led the effort to use
the Leahy Law to frustrate Nigeria’s efforts to buy weapons from the US
and when we could not buy from them she and her contemporaries also
frustrated our efforts to buy from Israel.
The annoying thing is that it was her disastrous intervention in Libya
that led to the escalation of the Boko Haram insurgency because the
overthrow of Gaddafi destabilized much of North and West Africa by
putting sophisticated light weapons in the hands of non state actors
like Boko Haram.
And yet when we as a nation were faced with the consequences of her
actions she would not help us. Nigeria was reduced to buying weapons for
cash on the Black Market. The thing is that Gaddafi may have been a
nasty piece of work but at least he made Libya stable.
Today, ISIS has a foothold in Libya and from there supports insurgents
like Boko Haram and Al Shabbab who are causing instability in Nigeria
and Kenya.My big question to Nigerians especially is this-Who Hillary Clinton Epp?
Our follow follow is too much. In real economic terms what did we stand
to gain from Hillary Clinton? Though I have been a lifelong Republican
since first coming to America as a nine year old, I suspend that status
in 2008 to support a fellow Black man, President Obama out of purely
primordial reasons (he is Black as I am) but to be honest, what has
Africa and Nigeria gained from eight years of Obama in the White House?
He never visited Nigeria. He never packaged any special economic
package for Nigeria or Africa. Say whatever you want to say about former
President George W Bush but no other US President has been as radical
in his support to Africa as Bush number 43! For giving more than $5
billion in humanitarian aid to Africa annually, President Bush goes on
record as having given more assistance to Sub Saharan Africa than any
other president including President Obama!
AIDS and Malaria are some of our biggest challenges in Africa and Bush
met us at the point of our need. Before President George W Bush
intervened in the fight against HOV/AIDS, only 100,000 Africans were on
antiretrovirals but in 2003 he set up the President’s Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and by the time he left office in 2009 that number
had grown to 2 million. When Congress resisted his efforts for funding
to the time of $1.2 billion to fight malaria in Africa in 2007 Bush
persuaded them by saying “There’s no reason for little babies to be
dying of mosquito bites around the world."
Now I ask you, what similar effort have President Obama and Hillary put
forward while they had power? Yes Obama has held summits like the first
US/Africa Leaders Summit and the US Africa Business Summit but do we eat
summits? What came of it other than talk and mostly Obama talking down
at African leaders in a way he would never do with Asian leaders.
At least with Trump we know that he will take on ISIS and other radical Islamic groups and that includes Boko Haram! Moreover, Trump has pledged to curb China’s global dominance and to do that he would have to match China dollar for dollar in Africa and when China and the US compete Africa gains.
But be that as it may I am very proud to have publicly supported Donald
Trump from the beginning to the end. Where are all those people who
insulted me for my support for Donald Trump? They all seem to have gone
missing in the ‘other room’!
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Bonita Bislam said...
- The same question Im asking you,"who your article epp?" Whether we like
it or not,US headache to a large extent becomes our headache being the
leader of the free world.You may support Trump,or Tramp but truth is
,there is a lesson to be learnt from Hillary's emergence as presidential
Candidate
In democratic politics there is no ‘two for the price of one’, which Hillary had always peddled; there are no “political couples”. The politician’s career must be individual and separate from family ties.
There are already women presidents and prime ministers in many countries. But for a woman to have reached the presidency of the most powerful country in the world would have been a change of great political and symbolic transcendence.
In this sense, the disillusion is understandable. But there are many reasons to be proud of Hillary’s campaign, even if she lost. Regardless of what people thought of her, one has to acknowledge her many values. She had a difficult campaign, and it is remarkable that given the enormous pressure on her to throw the towel in, she fought until the very end. Most importantly, thanks to her great performance she has now made it possible so that, in the future, being a woman will not be an obstacle to reaching the presidency of the United States or even Nigeria
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