I’ve forgiven Americans for voting racist, monster Trump- Soyinka
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka says he has forgiven Americans for electing former President Donald Trump whom he described as a racist, monster and a xenophobe.
The Nobel Laureate who had in 2016 torn his American immigrant visa to shreds over Trump’s victory, said he would not be renewing his green card since he could visit the United States even without it.
The playwright, who displayed pieces of his torn green card, stated that America had redeemed itself with the removal of Trump.
The Nobel Laureate, said he was very much concerned with the US elections in 2016 because the country has a huge Nigerian population, adding that America’s history would not be complete without blacks.
He said he tried to warn them about the impending danger of a Trump Presidency but his advice was ignored hence his decision to tear his green card to shreds.
He said in a way, he was happy about the attack on the Capitol building by pro-Trump rioters.
The playwright said he wanted Americans to understand how fragile democracy is.
So, you can imagine how i have felt over the last few weeks, the siege on the Capitol. In a way, it was rather heart warming for the Americans themselves to feel that what they have been fighting for over a year is not really a given in their society and they had to confront it in a brutal unbelievable way and they came out of it in flying colours.
“It is not over, not by any means, i don’t say that for a single moment but it has been a lesson for us in this continent and we should be grateful that it did happen. I am sorry of course, for the loss of life, i regret the disruption of normal life but now we are placed on the same playing level, that we are all fighting for the same virtue in human conduct, the same system we all believe in, that you cannot take it for granted, not anymore and for us here in Nigeria, it has been, i hope, a heart warming occasion”.
