Another American insults Nigerians over Obamacare
It seems President Barack Obama haters in the US love picking Nigerians as soft targets in their campaign against Obama’s healthcare programme.
Last month Republican Sen.Ted Cruz compared the glitches plaguing the website for Obama’s signature health care law to the methodologies of “Nigerian email scammers.”
“You may have noticed that all the Nigerian email scammers have become a lot less active lately,” Cruz said, according to the Houston Chronicle. “They all have been hired to run the Obamacare website.”
The comment before party faithful in Texas, drew the diplomatic anger of Nigeria and an apology was exacted from the senator.
Three weeks after, another American has run riot with her pen.
Ann Coulter, a rabid conservative ideologue, in an article posted in Yahoo(see links below), ridiculed Nigerians, curiously also in connection with Obamacare:
Here is an excerpt of what she wrote, the part that really concerns us, as Nigerians:
“Nigeria, for example, leads the world in criminal enterprises. Every level of Nigerian society is criminal, with the smart ones running Internet scams, the mid-range ones running car theft rings, and the stupid ones engaging in piracy and kidnapping. At the University of Lagos, you can major in credit card fraud…
“There were almost no Nigerians in the United States until the 1970s. Today, there are nearly 250,000 Nigerians in the U.S. (committing the cyber-crime Americans just won’t do!). In 2011, we took in more immigrants from Nigeria than from the United Kingdom (9,246 from the U.K. and 9,344 from Nigeria).
http://news.yahoo.com/speak-nigerian-prince-health-care-press-1-now-000008077.html
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