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“You can not achieve what Hillary Clinton has achieved”- Freeze tellls Chimamanda Adichie

Posted on by Abisola Mohammed

Daddy Freeze berates Chimamanda Adichie for challenging Hillary Clinton on her Twitter Bio

Yesterday, Ghafla Nigeria reported, the news about Chimamanda Adichie and Hilary Clinton on gender challenge.  Chimamanda was rather disappointed at Clinton for identifying as a mum on her Bio. Today, OAP Freeze writes an open letter to the writer, berating her for her actions. He sited an example of Barrack Obama having Dad and Husband on his Bio.

OAP Daddy Freeze writes open letter to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, says

He wrote:

“Dear Chimamanda, I used to be a huge fan until I read your interview with Hillary Clinton.
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Now I’m somewhere in the vesica pisces, torn between the enormous respect I had for the quality of your work and anger for what you are beginning to brandish.
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Let me set the record straight, I am not a fan of Hillary Clinton, so I’m not jumping in as her guardian angel. As a matter of fact, I completely disagree with most of the decisions she took while in office.
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Besides this however, woman to woman, what Hillary has achieved, in my opinion, you NEVER CAN, ‘no be beans’, so you suggesting how she should be addressed is what we Yorubas call ‘Iwosi’.
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Even Obama refers to himself as a dad first, husband second, so what’s your point exactly? Why can’t Hillary be addressed as wife first, if she so chooses?
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Could your utterances be stemming from inadequacies you need to attend to? You might consider investigating this.
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Now, let me warn you, there are no dividing forces greater than color, race, gender and tribe. These factors continue to ensure humanity remains segregated. This table you are shaking has vast consequences even you didn’t bargain for.
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People have been over the last two years, urging me to preach about Jesus being black and I never have, do you know why? Because I DONT CARE ABOUT HIS COLOR, it’s irrelevant, I care about HIS MESSAGE!
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In the same vein, I follow you simple because of your message, NOT BECAUSE OF YOUR GENDER OR COLOR OR TRIBE. So kindly keep the focus on the message, which in my opinion is excellent.
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Don’t mar it by demarcating yourself into a ‘gender’, unless of course you are employing this as a marketing tool, which, please be warned, has its own repercussions! ~FRZ”

Chimamanda Adichie questions Hillary Clinton for starting her Twitter Bio with “Wife”

Posted on by Abisola Mohammed

Chimanda Adichie and Hillary Clinton discuss about Clinton’s “Wife” Twitter Bio

Chimamanda Adichie, Nigeria’s foremost female writer and feminist, was recently in an interview with Hillary Clinton. During their talk session, the writer questioned the politician on her reasons for having a Twitter Bio that starts with “Wife”. Their conversation goes thus:

Chimamanda said:

“In your Twitter account, the first word that describes you is ‘Wife.’ And then I think it’s ‘Mom,’ and then it’s ‘Grandmother’. And when I saw that, I have to confess that I felt just a little bit upset. And then I went and I looked at your husband’s Twitter account, and the first word was not ‘husband.”

Hillary Clinton : “When you put it like that, I’m going to change it”

Quoting Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton said:

“She said, you know, at the end of the day, it won’t matter if you got a raise, it won’t matter if you wrote a great book, if you are not also someone who values relationships.”

Furthermore Clinton said:

“It shouldn’t be either/or. It should be that if you are someone who is defining yourself by what you do and what you accomplish, and that is satisfying, then more power to you. That is how you should be thinking about your life, and living it. If you are someone who primarily defines your life in relationship to others, then more power to you, and live that life the way Barbara Bush lived that life, and how proud she was to do it.

But I think most of us as women in today’s world end up in the middle. Wanting to have relationships, wanting to invest in them, nurture them, but also pursuing our own interests.”

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