Ted Cruz made a joke. The Nigerian-Americans took offense. There is so much wrong with this I'm not sure where to start.
Sen. Ted Cruz's sense of humor is earning him some ill will from near and far.
A Nigerian-American organization wants the Texas Republican to apologize for comments he made Monday about the problems with the Affordable Care Act website.
"You may have noticed that all the Nigerian email scammers have become a lot less active lately," Cruz said at a gathering with supporters in Houston, according to the Houston Chronicle.
"They all have been hired to run the Obamacare website," he joked.
But the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, also known as CANAN, isn't laughing. The group blasted Cruz, calling his comments distasteful and disparaging.
"Cruz has maligned all hardworking, decent and outstanding Nigerian-Americans who add value and bring goodwill to their different communities, especially in Texas, with the largest concentration of Nigerian-Americans in this country," the group said in a statement released Thursday.
And that's not the only place where Cruz's joke fell flat.
The Nigerian ambassador to the United States also wants an apology from the senator.
He didn't say ALL Nigerians were corrupt, he DID say Nigerian SPAMMERS were busy with obamadon'tcare...and that there's funny.
And who the fuck even KNEW we had a Nigerian-American organization? And WHY? Quite frankly, if you are a descendant, or even worse, a refugee who came to this country to start a new (better) life, I would hope your loyalties would be to the country that gave you the opportunities you have.
That's the problem with our once great Melting Pot. We have 'Little Chinas", "Haitian Miami", the "French Quarter". Fuck that.
Until being American, no hyphen, no categorization, no clique, is enough to again instill pride in a 'citizen's' soul, that person is not ANY kind of American.
You Hyphen-Asshats may be considered citizens, but you are NOT a patriot, nor, in my eyes, a True AMERICAN!
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