Last month a Republican, Sen.Ted Cruz, compared the glitches plaguing the website for Obama’s signature health care law to the methodologies of “Nigerian e-mail scammers”.
“You may have noticed that all the Nigerian email scammers have become a lot less active lately. They all have been hired to run the Obamacare website,” Sen. Cruz said, according to the Houston Chronicle.
This comment drew the diplomatic anger of Nigeria and an apology was exacted from the Senator.
And now another American has run riot with her pen.
Ann Coulter (pictured above), a rabid conservative ideologue, in an article posted on Yahoo!, also ridiculed Nigerians, and also in connection with Obamacare. The excerpt of what she wrote is given below:
“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)”.
From Wikipedia: Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an
American conservative social and political commentator, writer,
syndicated columnist, and lawyer.Nigerians any word for this lady?
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