Who Hillary Clinton Epp? - Reno Omokri
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?
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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