Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has givenan indication that he will tear up his Green Card on January 20, 2017, the day Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President of the US.
Responding to a question on Trump’s emergence during an interview with Newsweek, the literary icon said: “Why don’t we wait until Trump actually takes office?”“I’m just going about my normal commitments, but definitely not getting into any more commitments.
Let’s put it that way for now.”Last week, Soyinka threatened to destroy his green card – his US residency permit – if Trump won.
“If in the unlikely event he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say [that] all green-card holders must reapply to come back into the US. Well, I’m not waiting for that,” he hadtold students of Oxford University, England.
“The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green card myself and start packing up.”Soyinka is a scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs.
After Trump was declared president-elect, the comment at Oxford started gaining traction, with many particularly on social media, asking the scholar to match his words with action.
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