Now what! To those who were sneering that he, Soyinka, wouldnt dare do it! (as if America is doing the laureate a favor by giving him a Green Card!)
As George Orwell rightly figures all animals will NEVER be equal (some will always be more equal than others)
There are those who will always tower head and shoulders above the rest; those who will always be courted by all countries around the globe and who can afford to pick and choose.
Legendary feminist Germaine Greer is one of such whose profile I came across in the late 90s in the UK on the eve of my departure for the US.
According to my informant, as at then she earned half a million pounds a year lecturing around the globe of which her home base Oxford salary accounted for just 20%.
To such people fighting tooth and nail to secure let alone hoard the American Green Card will be an impediment to intellectual freedom rather than liberation.
Such people are BEGGED with the Green Card and not the other way round, in order to attract funding to America. The laureate's shredding of the Green Card is America's loss; not his.
So to the average third world immigrant fighting to hoard the Green Card till death do them part and stomaching all kinds of s**t and abuse not everyone can be reduced to your lilliputian stature!
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