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8 The Panther February 15-28, 2017
Clark Atlanta University
An unelectable candidate who upset the political world
By Omoh T. Ojior, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
What goes wrong, Africa; what is wrong
Africa and Africans in the Diaspora, and what
went wrong, America?
What has Africa and Africans done
wrong; why the onslaught of the White
Supremacists directed against Africans
everywhere and why is Hillary Clinton being
robbed of her political victory in the recent
elections when the county of the popular votes
shows that the former Secretary of State had
scored over 2.2 million votes above in excess
against her opponent, Donald Trump?
Why so much hate and not love
for Hillary, other nationals, the Africans,
particularly, and their many White admirers in
the United States? America was in a political
doldrums, but America was rescued by a
president who was the first Black man to hold
the position. Why the disrespect and hatred
for President Barack Obama in spite of his
achievement at a time America was in a socio
economic mess?
These questions here and many more
that should be asked, but for brevity, are as
a result of pundits’ political miscalculations
of what went on in the recent American
Presidential election. In my opinion, what
went on and what is still going on with
President Donald J. Trump, and what humanity
is witnessing is beyond mundane political
analyses and calculations. The American
media have hardly misfired in their political
projections of a winner or calculations from
during campaigns, after and when voting takes
place in America. That they blew it this time,
is an indication that something unholy has been
activated, and the sooner it is checked if it’s not
too late, America may join the league of Third
World nations or become one.
It is surprising that many Americans are
not conscious enough to know what took place
in November. It beats my feeble imagination
that people are imputing what was not there
into the classic campaigns of Hillary Clinton.
Secretary Clinton displayed positive energies
with clear plans with coherency in the manners
she presented herself and interacted with the
public all the time. She told the world what
her plans were and how the plans would be
implemented in a manner understandable to all
including the youths and children of America.
On the other hand, Donald Trump
was always without a plan, which he needed
to explain to the Americans; he was always
incoherent and had sound-bites in his
presentation to the disgust of every reasonable
and informed American. I will argue that it
is always easy to criticize. Criticizing and
discrediting with insults on the person of the
U.S. President and all that President Obama
had achieved for America and Americans was
what Donald Trump talked about throughout
the campaigns incoherently, without even the
ability and knowledge to show that he knows
and understands what it takes to govern a
country such as the United States of America.
Donald Trump was never a politician. Apart
from all the deficiencies as displayed and
noted by the citizens, young and old, of this
great nation, candidate Trump lacks the social
decency of the moral world of our time.
What did members of the Electoral
College see in Trump in terms of experience
and articulation that qualifies him to meet the
requirement of the most qualified or the right
person for the presidency of the United States at
this time of ours, over Hillary?
According to a professor of Law at Yale
University, the real reason for the existence of
the Electoral College is federalism and slavery.
American citizens have now been told that the
framers of the Constitution had entrenched
the provision of the Electoral College in the
Constitution in 1787 to ensure that the right
qualified person was elected to the position of
president. Mind you, this was at a time when
not many were enlightened and informed
politically; and there were many slaves that
were feared, that one day they will become
freed men and women who would participate in
the political process, and today, there are. This
assertion cannot be doubted because the minds
of the framers of the Constitution were far
reaching. However, I will argue that the framers
of the founding document in spite of their
far reaching minds, did not envision that the
Electoral College provision will be used as it is
being used today because there is a provision to
amend the Constitution if a need should arise.
They knew that humanity was evolving and
would get to where we are today, and we have
evolved beyond the negro-phobic thinking of
some early Americans.
It is surprising that the earlier thinking
of some people had not been overtaken by
the magnificent advancement of those who
were thought to be subhuman, as it has been
displayed by those who have rigged themselves
into an office they have the least knowledge and
skills, to run.
I would further argue that those who were
yelling and dinning to our hearing of “I will
be rigged out,” “this is a rigged system,” “the
media will rig me out in favor of Hillary” were
actually the rigger of the system. There is a
need for an investigation to know why and
how Donald J. Trump reached the conclusion
that the electoral system had become a rigged
system in which the media were the facilitator
or an accomplice. My suspicion needs to be
invalidated for credibility purpose judging that
the “rigged-President-elect” has claimed again
that he was rigged out of the popular votes in
which Hilary Clinton is leading with over 2.2
million votes without providing any evidence of
such fraudulent practice.
Furthermore, I would argue that the
personal attacks and open insults rained on the
person of the president of the United States,
President Barack Obama, whose name was
not on the ballot shows the amount of the deep
hatred for blacks. Further, the Affordable
Healthcare Act, tagged “Obamacare,” was
God sent for the majority of Americans. Many
of them have been crossing the borders to
neighboring countries like Canada and Mexico
to take advantage of their liberalized healthcare
system with their moderately priced medicines
respectively, to get cured of their illness. Yet,
members of the Republican Party and Tom
Price could not team up with the Democrats in
the House to produce an inexpensive healthcare
plan to save the people.
In their thinking, if Hillary is the next
President, apart from realizing her personal
political manifestos, she will complete the
unfinished programs and projects of President
Obama, which will be beneficial to the majority
of Americans that include blacks, other
minorities and the down trodden, less fortunate
Americans.
Arguably, this planned agenda of the
Democratic Party is offensive to Mr. Trump
and many of the America’s 1 percent business
moguls, some of whom are not in accord with
the white supremacists’ agenda “to make
America great again.”
Consequently, one would further contest
that the racist overtone of Mr. Donald J. Trump
during the campaigns, which most informed and
reasonable Americans are rejecting was directed
at President Barack Obama whom he claimed
was an African who was not born in America.
As a result, President Trump hates President
Obama and Africans, espousing the idea that
black Africans must be shipped back to Africa.
Nigerians have been specifically included on
Trump’s agenda to be shipped away because,
according to Trump, they take jobs away from
Americans; unknown to Trump, there are
enormous contributions that Nigerian academic
professors, medical doctors and others are
making in the American economy.
For this and other negro-phobic
thinking, everything was done to prevent the
survival of the Obama legacy even if it meant
one rigging him or herself into the office of
the president of the United States. If the above
opinions and arguments are in doubt, how do
we explain that from day one to the last, on the
campaign trails, Donald Trump claimed that he
will be rigged out, that the process was a rigged
system spearheaded by the media in America?
From the onset, the cry of “a rigged
system" was a shield to prevent failure to rig
out Hillary Clinton. In order to protect the
integrity of the American western democracy,
there is an urgent need to investigate the
President-elect; for the Media to protect its
reputation, it must lead the investigation into
Trump’s un-evidenced and un-substantiated
allegations and claims.
Finally, the Mr. Trump must be informed
that America, as the leader of the free world,
cannot afford a dictator in the White House
who does not believe in the well being of others
humans. He needs to be re-educated to know
that America has a secret destiny for mankind;
that the power of American democracy came
from the remote past, from the deep shadows
of the medieval world, (Manly P. Hall); that
Africans are no strangers to this shore; that
Africans populated the Americas before the
American Indians and before Columbus landed
on the American shores; that America was
meant to be the melting pot of human ideas and
ideals, it is one of the reasons the best minds are
attracted to America. It appears Mr. Donald J.
Trump is drunk on his material wealth without
the understanding that worldly means alone is
not enough to be the leader of the free world; it
takes mind, character and learning with skills
to interact with others. For now Mr. Donald
Trump has been adjudged to lack these humane
attributes necessary for this age.
The Founding Fathers, victims of the
puritan era, who landed on the Mayflower
1620 knew these truths, hence the provision
of amendment with 2/3 member of Congress
to amend the Constitution when necessary to
accommodate and to strengthen the Republic.
It is not an accident that America is attractive
and inviting. Those who are racist and harbor
hatred and discrimination in their hearts need to
look deep into themselves and request the God
of their hearts to forgive them. America cannot
afford to yield the world’s leadership position at
this time; to whom?