By Chioma Ugochukwu— Pennsylvania

I am home today nursing a torn muscle from my treadmill workouts and thought that I should comment on something that happened recently.

I noticed that a video was trending on Twitter a few days ago. It was a video of folks from a church in the Southeastern part of Nigeria holding a prayer walk for Donald Trump.

We saw reports earlier that another church in the region also held a parade for Trump. Those of you who follow me know that I have written about this strange phenomenon of Nigerians, particularly Igbos (my ethnic group), supporting and praying for Trump.

It started with the false meme that spread on social media that Trump supports Igbos (Biafrans). Some Igbos are pushing to secede from Nigeria due to their discontentment with the tensions between Christians in the North (Igbos are mostly Christians) and Muslims in the North.

Many of us Nigerians in the United States are dual citizens. We have often found it baffling that our brothers and sisters back home don’t seem to fully understand who Trump is.

Most of them truly believe that Trump is a devout Christian and some even call him a God-sent. Those of us who know Trump better find the claim to be ludicrous. Anyway, I have often tried not to be too critical of our folks back home, but seeing this video trending on Twitter and reading that Trump acknowledged it sent me over the edge.

While I understand that we are all entitled to our opinions, beliefs, and values, I find myself in a position of using my own voice to express my opinion and disdain for what I am seeing.

This is personal to me. I recognize that I am about to take a harsh tone here, but sometimes you’ve got to take a stand for your own values. I have no doubt in my mind that Trump does not give a damn about Igbos or Nigerians. In fact, he has blocked visas and family reunification programs for Nigerians.

He has not spoken out against the issue of police brutality in Nigeria, which most of our Igbo folks are fighting against with the #EndSARS movement. Trump has also blocked the appointment of Nigerians to leadership positions within some international organizations.

So, if you are one of the Nigerians holding prayer vigils and parading for Trump, shame on you! You are actively praying for a man who is doing his best to make life harder for your brothers and sisters in the diaspora.

I have not seen a prayer walk from any of you for the various issues we’ve encountered. We’ve had mass shootings in the United States and none of you held parades or vigils to pray for our safety. You pray for Trump and shamelessly tell us that we need to return home if we find his policies unbearable.

Meanwhile, you are all too happy to receive the billions of dollars in remittances that we send to Nigeria every year. Your prayers for Trump are prayers against our welfare and the welfare of our children. So, shame on you!

I don’t comment too much on events happening in Nigeria and it’s not because I don’t care; it’s just that I left Nigeria decades ago, which means that I can no longer draw on my lived experience for commentary.

I can rely on research, but that means that I will miss some nuances because one’s lived experience will always trump what one can deduce from reading. Many of you Nigerians praying for Trump actually believe that reading memes and news articles make you experts on Trump and the American experience.

You see the things you hear on the 700 Club and TBN as non-partisan and true. You are often dismissive of your brothers and sisters in the United States who draw on their lived experience to form their opinion of Trump. It will be nice if you would give us the benefit of the doubt and acknowledge that we may know this guy better than you do.

Trump does not give a damn about you or any other African nation! Trump is not a Christian, so shame on you for believing otherwise! Shame on you for supporting someone who saw a black man sitting in his lobby as an eyesore.

Shame on you for professing to be Christians even as you support a conman who defrauds workers, sleeps with porn stars, separates children from their parents, denounces refugees fleeing war-torn locations, takes away food stamps from children, and who is actively working to take away health insurance from millions.

The Igbos pride themselves on being smart. Whatever caused you to parade for a man who is pushing the world toward anti-intellectualism? Were we not taught that God is love? What does your Bible say about lust, greed, wrath, envy, and pride? Are they still deadly sins or not?

We have a name for people who sympathize with their abusers. We need to see if this is a case of the Stockholm Syndrome or just another case of the regular, everyday colonial mentality.

I recognize that I am being tough here, but if you are willing to support a white supremacist who spends all day sowing division, then rest assured that I have no problem distancing myself from you and your values.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/shame-on-you-my-igbo-people/

AtorKelly:
By Chioma Ugochukwu— Pennsylvania

I am home today nursing a torn muscle from my treadmill workouts and thought that I should comment on something that happened recently.

I noticed that a video was trending on Twitter a few days ago. It was a video of folks from a church in the Southeastern part of Nigeria holding a prayer walk for Donald Trump.

We saw reports earlier that another church in the region also held a parade for Trump. Those of you who follow me know that I have written about this strange phenomenon of Nigerians, particularly Igbos (my ethnic group), supporting and praying for Trump.

It started with the false meme that spread on social media that Trump supports Igbos (Biafrans). Some Igbos are pushing to secede from Nigeria due to their discontentment with the tensions between Christians in the North (Igbos are mostly Christians) and Muslims in the North.

Many of us Nigerians in the United States are dual citizens. We have often found it baffling that our brothers and sisters back home don’t seem to fully understand who Trump is.

Most of them truly believe that Trump is a devout Christian and some even call him a God-sent. Those of us who know Trump better find the claim to be ludicrous. Anyway, I have often tried not to be too critical of our folks back home, but seeing this video trending on Twitter and reading that Trump acknowledged it sent me over the edge.

While I understand that we are all entitled to our opinions, beliefs, and values, I find myself in a position of using my own voice to express my opinion and disdain for what I am seeing.

This is personal to me. I recognize that I am about to take a harsh tone here, but sometimes you’ve got to take a stand for your own values. I have no doubt in my mind that Trump does not give a damn about Igbos or Nigerians. In fact, he has blocked visas and family reunification programs for Nigerians.

He has not spoken out against the issue of police brutality in Nigeria, which most of our Igbo folks are fighting against with the #EndSARS movement. Trump has also blocked the appointment of Nigerians to leadership positions within some international organizations.

So, if you are one of the Nigerians holding prayer vigils and parading for Trump, shame on you! You are actively praying for a man who is doing his best to make life harder for your brothers and sisters in the diaspora.

I have not seen a prayer walk from any of you for the various issues we’ve encountered. We’ve had mass shootings in the United States and none of you held parades or vigils to pray for our safety. You pray for Trump and shamelessly tell us that we need to return home if we find his policies unbearable.

Meanwhile, you are all too happy to receive the billions of dollars in remittances that we send to Nigeria every year. Your prayers for Trump are prayers against our welfare and the welfare of our children. So, shame on you!

I don’t comment too much on events happening in Nigeria and it’s not because I don’t care; it’s just that I left Nigeria decades ago, which means that I can no longer draw on my lived experience for commentary.

I can rely on research, but that means that I will miss some nuances because one’s lived experience will always trump what one can deduce from reading. Many of you Nigerians praying for Trump actually believe that reading memes and news articles make you experts on Trump and the American experience.

You see the things you hear on the 700 Club and TBN as non-partisan and true. You are often dismissive of your brothers and sisters in the United States who draw on their lived experience to form their opinion of Trump. It will be nice if you would give us the benefit of the doubt and acknowledge that we may know this guy better than you do.

Trump does not give a damn about you or any other African nation! Trump is not a Christian, so shame on you for believing otherwise! Shame on you for supporting someone who saw a black man sitting in his lobby as an eyesore.

Shame on you for professing to be Christians even as you support a conman who defrauds workers, sleeps with porn stars, separates children from their parents, denounces refugees fleeing war-torn locations, takes away food stamps from children, and who is actively working to take away health insurance from millions.

The Igbos pride themselves on being smart. Whatever caused you to parade for a man who is pushing the world toward anti-intellectualism? Were we not taught that God is love? What does your Bible say about lust, greed, wrath, envy, and pride? Are they still deadly sins or not?

We have a name for people who sympathize with their abusers. We need to see if this is a case of the Stockholm Syndrome or just another case of the regular, everyday colonial mentality.

I recognize that I am being tough here, but if you are willing to support a white supremacist who spends all day sowing division, then rest assured that I have no problem distancing myself from you and your values.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/shame-on-you-my-igbo-people/

Weyrey dey disguise.
See that bolded there, an Igbo person would never write that.
Ola is that you claiming chioma?

Where's righteousness89 when you need him.
Don't avoid the thread of this your God-sent, Trump.

HopeUzodinma:



Weyrey dey disguise.
See that bolded there, any Igbo person would never write that.
Ola is that you claiming chioma?

So true. They don't know Ndigbo don't say such out loud or brag about it because there is a saying in Igboland that he that says he is smart is foolish.
It is non Igbos that call us such. Lol

HopeUzodinma:



Weyrey dey disguise.
See that bolded there, any Igbo person would never write that.
Ola is that you claiming chioma?

So vanguard news outlet is lying?
Nnamdi Kanu's charm is highly effective

IPOB are the ones misinforming regular Ibos about Trump, especially Kanu

Unfortunately they don't know a racist, KKK apologists would shoot A black man whether Ibo or Hausa without any remorse



.

Please allow people freedom of choice devoid of persecution, as well as freedom of association.

Don't guilttrip them against their choice, nonsense writer.

Whatever this lady wrote here is her opinion. It is not binding on anyone and it doesn't represent the general opinion of Nigerians in the US.

Watch how they would label her Afonja.

AtorKelly:
By Chioma Ugochukwu— Pennsylvania

I am home today nursing a torn muscle from my treadmill workouts and thought that I should comment on something that happened recently.

I noticed that a video was trending on Twitter a few days ago. It was a video of folks from a church in the Southeastern part of Nigeria holding a prayer walk for Donald Trump.

We saw reports earlier that another church in the region also held a parade for Trump. Those of you who follow me know that I have written about this strange phenomenon of Nigerians, particularly Igbos (my ethnic group), supporting and praying for Trump.

It started with the false meme that spread on social media that Trump supports Igbos (Biafrans). Some Igbos are pushing to secede from Nigeria due to their discontentment with the tensions between Christians in the North (Igbos are mostly Christians) and Muslims in the North.

Many of us Nigerians in the United States are dual citizens. We have often found it baffling that our brothers and sisters back home don’t seem to fully understand who Trump is.

Most of them truly believe that Trump is a devout Christian and some even call him a God-sent. Those of us who know Trump better find the claim to be ludicrous. Anyway, I have often tried not to be too critical of our folks back home, but seeing this video trending on Twitter and reading that Trump acknowledged it sent me over the edge.

While I understand that we are all entitled to our opinions, beliefs, and values, I find myself in a position of using my own voice to express my opinion and disdain for what I am seeing.

This is personal to me. I recognize that I am about to take a harsh tone here, but sometimes you’ve got to take a stand for your own values. I have no doubt in my mind that Trump does not give a damn about Igbos or Nigerians. In fact, he has blocked visas and family reunification programs for Nigerians.

He has not spoken out against the issue of police brutality in Nigeria, which most of our Igbo folks are fighting against with the #EndSARS movement. Trump has also blocked the appointment of Nigerians to leadership positions within some international organizations.

So, if you are one of the Nigerians holding prayer vigils and parading for Trump, shame on you! You are actively praying for a man who is doing his best to make life harder for your brothers and sisters in the diaspora.

I have not seen a prayer walk from any of you for the various issues we’ve encountered. We’ve had mass shootings in the United States and none of you held parades or vigils to pray for our safety. You pray for Trump and shamelessly tell us that we need to return home if we find his policies unbearable.

Meanwhile, you are all too happy to receive the billions of dollars in remittances that we send to Nigeria every year. Your prayers for Trump are prayers against our welfare and the welfare of our children. So, shame on you!

I don’t comment too much on events happening in Nigeria and it’s not because I don’t care; it’s just that I left Nigeria decades ago, which means that I can no longer draw on my lived experience for commentary.

I can rely on research, but that means that I will miss some nuances because one’s lived experience will always trump what one can deduce from reading. Many of you Nigerians praying for Trump actually believe that reading memes and news articles make you experts on Trump and the American experience.

You see the things you hear on the 700 Club and TBN as non-partisan and true. You are often dismissive of your brothers and sisters in the United States who draw on their lived experience to form their opinion of Trump. It will be nice if you would give us the benefit of the doubt and acknowledge that we may know this guy better than you do.

Trump does not give a damn about you or any other African nation! Trump is not a Christian, so shame on you for believing otherwise! Shame on you for supporting someone who saw a black man sitting in his lobby as an eyesore.

Shame on you for professing to be Christians even as you support a conman who defrauds workers, sleeps with porn stars, separates children from their parents, denounces refugees fleeing war-torn locations, takes away food stamps from children, and who is actively working to take away health insurance from millions.

The Igbos pride themselves on being smart. Whatever caused you to parade for a man who is pushing the world toward anti-intellectualism? Were we not taught that God is love? What does your Bible say about lust, greed, wrath, envy, and pride? Are they still deadly sins or not?

We have a name for people who sympathize with their abusers. We need to see if this is a case of the Stockholm Syndrome or just another case of the regular, everyday colonial mentality.

I recognize that I am being tough here, but if you are willing to support a white supremacist who spends all day sowing division, then rest assured that I have no problem distancing myself from you and your values.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/shame-on-you-my-igbo-people/

Trump is far better than Joe Biden and all his liberal block.

Every one has rite to support who they want to support.

Same way People fight over Manchester vs Chelsea match in beer palours here in Nigeria.

The only reason trump has some support in Nigeria is because of his hard stance on terrorism (iran) and his economic strides...

For being a racist...everyone knows that.

Who is Chioma

This writer has completely changed my opinion about Igbo and their values.

I just couldn't understand how black people would support such an eminent racist as Trump.

Even his determined rejection and obstruction of their Sister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala for WTO Director General didn't dent their support for Trump one bit.

I know Ojukwu received support from apartheid South Africa to the Shock of almost all other African Countries including the North African Arabs. ( the President of Algeria personally told Azikiwe to call Ojukwu' to Order ) but that was over 50 years ago.

I had started to think that Igbo's value system was so faulty that they would have gladly supported the Nazi's and the KKK if they ran for elections .

From this writer I can see that that may not be true ,Igbos still have decent people of Conscience.

A roadside church of few people somewhere in Onitsha marched around in support of Trump, maybe because the pastor was fooled into thinking that Trumps anti abortion, anti homosexual stands make him a good Christian/good leader of the western hemisphere, and since then, local mercenary blogs have been working non-stop to forward a narrative that suggests that the whole igbo land are In bed with Trump and as such are in collective support for his presidency. Why such attempt?

Just to mock and taunt igbos! This coming from the same people who welcomed Obama and David Cameron's unabashed involvement in Nigerias elections that did not just topple Jonathan, but gave birth to the greatest disaster of a president in Mumuhead Buhari! Which one is more dangerous? Dancing for Trump to win Americas elections or inviting Obama and Cameron to rig Nigerias elections?? Folks should leave the Igbo man out of their misery and face Buhari for once, ahbegi..

Make she go sleep abeg.
Trump's the man.

Trump is not a racists.

There is trick which main stream media like CNN use on ignorant people and that is repetition.

You can blackmail a target by calling the target badnanes everytime a target is being mentioned, before you know it the unthinking viewers internalize it.

Trump career have been with black people, from black rappers to black boxers wanting to party with him.

The moment he won against Hillary, the media made it a must to tarnish his image

TRUMP IS THE MAN.

flyingpig:
Please allow people freedom of choice devoid of persecution, as well as freedom of association.

Don't guilttrip them against their choice, nonsense writer.

Except of course if such a person was Ayatollah or muslim in any form.

Just here to see how she gets pulverized by her people for daring to raise a finger of condemnation against Trump.

What do you expect from our emotional Christians who grop on conspiracies and then find a way to link it to the Bible, when their own very life with the bible is like two parallel lines that can never meet.
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True Christians don't disturb and disorganized themselves with world happenings but rather how to faithfully follow their master (Jesus) in the commanded holiness and righteous which are a higher level of integrity and how to transform this very inward integrity to a light that reflects their master to the world in whatsoever capacity they may find themselves.

HopeUzodinma:



Weyrey dey disguise.
See that bolded there, any Igbo person would never write that.
Ola is that you claiming chioma?

Why is it so hard for Igbos to accept they made a mistake? Trump was there for 4 years and didn't give a damn about Igbos, instead he restricted ur people from moving to higher positions(intercontinental politics) and u still carried out walk of shame for him.

She is wasting her time. Most members of the Trump cult are too far gone and cannot be convinced. I hope this writer is not on Facebook, they will soon mobilise in their thousands to make her life a hell.
I gave up on these Trump people when the NOI WTO election issue came up. A man I knew that has consistently praised NOI as one of their best "daughter" suddenly started attacking her. He described her as evil, devil and dangerous and that Trump must have seen what we mere mortals can't see to warrant a rejection. All these for what? To worship a white god who doesn't care about anyone?

thebosstrevor1:
Trump is not a racists.

There is trick which main stream media like CNN use on ignorant people and that is repetition.

You can blackmail a target by calling the target badnanes everytime a target is being mentioned, before you know it the unthinking viewers internalize it.

Trump career have been with black people, from black rappers to black boxers wanting to party with him.

The moment he won against Hillary, the media made it a must to tarnish his image

TRUMP IS THE MAN.

Someone who has lived in the States for over a decade is giving an account of her experience and drawing conclusions on the character of the president from her personal experience, yet, you who probably has NEVER stepped a fingernail on American soil will still dispute that, shouting CNN as though she said her judgement is based on what she watched on cnn.

Smh.

owobokiri:
A roadside church of few people somewhere in Onitsha marched around in support of Trump, maybe because the pastor was fooled into thinking that Trumps anti abortion, anti homosexual stands make him a good Christian/good leader of the western hemisphere, and since then, local mercenary blogs have been working non-stop to forward a narrative that suggests that the whole igbo land are In bed with Trump and as such are in collective support for his presidency. Why such attempt?

Just to mock and taunt igbos! This coming from the same people who welcomed Obama and David Cameron's unabashed involvement in Nigerias elections that did not just topple Jonathan, but gave birth to the greatest disaster of a president in Mumuhead Buhari! Which one is more dangerous? Dancing for Trump to win Americas elections or inviting Obama and Cameron to rig Nigerias elections?? Folks should leave the Igbo man out of their misery and face Buhari for once, ahbegi..

Stop pretending! Trump supporters are not few people. They are in fact the majority. Anyone who criticises Trump on social media is instantly attacked by these army of sycophants.
How many times have you seen a demonstration against farmers being attacked on their farms?

Christistruth00:
This writer has completely changed my opinion about Igbo and their values.

I just couldn't understand how black people would support such an eminent racist as Trump.

I know Ojukwu received support from apartheid South Africa to the Shock of almost all other African Countries including the North African Arabs ( the President of Algeria personally told Azikiwe to call Ojukwu' to Order ) but that was over 50 years ago.

Over 70 million people voted for Trump! You are not smarter than those folks... Ojukwu worked with the apartheid regime? Is that the new line of attack? Gowon went back to Britain to bring back the fomer colonialists barely 5 years after independence. In the process, selling off Nigerias future and wealth to a group of neo-colonialists, to the extent that today, Nigeria is the only oil producing major that remits more than half of her total daily oil earnings to foreign companies/countries! That's nothing to you but Ojukwu "working with racists" to free black people from a war sponsored by some British racists gets you upset? You see how smart you are..?

The one that shocked me the most is how some deluded ipob members turned on Madam Ngozi Iwela because of Trump.

Madam Ngozi is currently one of most respected Nigerians overseas along side people like Wole Soyinka.

And Madam Ngozi is the most respected person from the igbo tribe alive today.

ivolt:

Stop pretending! Trump supporters are not few people. They are in fact the majority. Anyone who criticises Trump on social media is instantly attacked by these army of sycophants.

You're the one pretending because even if they marched for Biden, you will still find faults! Your disdain goes deeper and are reflections of your base cultural preferences. You are just clutching on straws here with this issue.

owobokiri:


Over 70 million people voted for Trump! You are not smarter than those folks... Ojukwu worked with the apartheid regime? Is that the new line of attack? Gowon went back to Britain to bring back the fomer colonialists barely 5 years after independence. In the process, selling off Nigerias future and wealth to a group of neo-colonialists, to the extent that today, Nigeria is the only oil producing major that remits more than half of her total daily oil earnings to foreign companies/countries! That's nothing to you but Ojukwu "working with racists" to free black people from a war sponsored by some British racists gets you upset? You see how smart you are..?

5 MILLION MORE PEOPLE VOTED FOR Biden

Over 80% of people with your skin colour voted for Biden including majority of Nigerian/Americans

Are you smarter than those people too?