girl22:

WE DO NOT HAVE WHITES TO THANK.
AMERICAN BLACKS LEARNED HOW TO CAN FOOD MEANING PRESERVE IT SO THEY CAN SURVIVE DROUGHTS. THEY KNEW HOW TO FARM LAND,GROW FOOD ECT. THEY KNEW HOW TO BUILD HOUSES

girl22:

WHY CANT BLACK FOREIGNERS EXCEPT THAT BLACK AMERICANS MADE IT?

girl22:

WE ARE NOT HAITIAN. JUST BECAUSE HATIANS ARE POOR AND BLACK AMERICANS ARE NOT DOES NOT MEAN WHITE PEOLE HAD TO HELP US.

girl22:

MY GRANDMOTHER HAS AN EIGHT GRADE EDUCATION AND GREW UP IN RACIST SOUTH. SHE CAN CAN FOOD TO MAKE IT LAST. DIG A WELL FOR WATER AND GROW FOOD., SHE ALSO KNOW WHAT FOOD YOU CAN GROW IN THE WINTER ECT.
SHE EVEN KNOWS HOW TO MAKE A INDOOR GARDEN.

girl22:

EVEN THOUGH THIS IS ILLEGAL, I KNOW OF SOME BLACK AMERICANS WHO TURNED THEIR CELL PHONE ON WHEN IT GET CUTS OFF.
THEY GOT CAUGHT SO DONT TRY IT. LOL

girl22:

MY ANCESTORS KNEW HOW TO FERTILIZED UNFERTILIZED LAND, TO PLANT CROPS.

WHY CANT BLACK FOREIGNERS EXCEPT THAT BLACK AMERICANS MADE IT?

.

EXPONENT:

and another thing - WE GOT and HAVE upstanding leaders DOING THE RIGHT THING

IN CONGRESS
IN THE SENATE
IN THE GOVERNMENT
IN THE STATE GOVERNMENT
IN THE CHURCHS
IN THE SCHOOLS
IN EVERY ASPECT OF AMERICAN LIFE, and the WHITEMAN and the AFRICANMAN want to hate.

naijacutee:

Thank you, Kev-d for contributing the only pro-active and sensible post on this thread. We Nigerians are very good at defending ourselves. The truth is that corruption exists. The truth is that corruption will not budge until we start to do something about it. The truth is that if we continue to wait for those in leadership to give up their means of livelihood, and also their means of securing a future for their generations to come, in exchange for a "better Nigeria", then we are fools. Harsh words, but true. The only way to fight corruption is if we get up and do something. Which is easier - To sit in front of the tv/newspapers and "tut tut" every Nigerian official, compare them with the West, evaluate who's better and who's worse, who's done it before and who hasn't etc or to actually get off our asses and start doing something about it? Your guess is as good as mine.

Now why are we so corrupt? Again like Kev-d mentioned earlier, it is a viscious cycle. First of all, let me just mention that not all Nigerians are corrupt, even though a lot of corrupt people happen to come from Nigeria. Corruption exists because we are used to the mentality that, when we get things without working hard for them - then we are wise. It starts from a young age - from primary school, we start to ask our friends for answers in the exam hall. When we get caught, we are sorry - not because we "copied", but because we got caught. We invent ways to be more subtle - and boast about them to our friends when our methods prove "secure". Our friends feel like they could have done better (and escaped a beating if only. . .), they copy us. We start to exhibit this attitude in other areas of our lives. Instead of joining the back of the queue at the student shops in secondary school, we look for someone we know, in front to "buy for us", simply because we do not want to "suffer like everyone else", but we want the food. And so forth. Therefore who says that only the government is to blame? If we were in governemnt, would we not do the same? Do we complain simply because we are not in the same position that they are in. Abeg jare, we are ALL to blame for corruption. And the only way to change it is to change our paradigms. Hardwork is respectable and something to be proud of. 419 is not, and the money does make a difference, yes, but the perpertrators are not to be respected - Not even so much that they start to "show the way" to other people - What nonsense!

The issue is not that govt should provide everything. For instance, am not expecting govt to train my children in school. . Cant you guys get the issue right?

emmydee:

Please don't change the topic.


@fidrach.:
. For instance, am not expecting govt to train my children in school. But I cannot build roads, I cannot provide Electricity, I cannot form an effective honest police force, I cannot form a strong, efficient and sincere legal system, I cannot form a good customs and immigration force. I don't have a license to build a private, working and world class airport. I cannot make the prices of petroleum products cheap, neither can any individual or a group of individual achieve any of these in Nigeria without the govt sincerely in support of it. All these and more are the exclusive duties of the govt, not individuals.

emmydee:
It is when these infrastructure are in place that you can now expect individuals to play their own parts.

EXPONENT:


NO We can't get the ISSUES right!


It is in your GOVERNMENTS best interest to have HIGHLY EDUCATED people within its borders to allow your COUNTRY to compete at a GLOBAL LEVEL.

if your government refuses to educate its people it is because YOUR GOVERNMENT wants its people DUMB!!!

Why?

Because DUMB people are easily corrupted and cannot THINK out the box.

emmydee:

@naijacutee

You have completely lost touch with reality. No offense meant plz. Where are u? You talk like you don't even live in this society, or if you do, you don't feel it!
Have you ever been hungry in your life? Have gone hungry for a day? How did u feel plz. Have ever been financially cheated? Was it painful at all. How would you feel if your elder bros or sis uses your school fees to buy drinks for his/her party? Every infrastructure here has completely collapsed, most people are not sure of their next salary. Everyone is so unsure about tomorrow, the govt comes up every other day with harsh economic policies and nothing to cushion the effects, why would someone in such delima reason well. These people are reminded daily how billions kept in a fellow country man's care is wasted, stolen and nothing's done to the fellow, then you want me at the lower cadre, with all the hard times to think well about public care? that should be a joke. Change should practically start from the TOP. Q.E.D.

[/quote]You are right. These are the duties of the government. They have their parts to play, and so do we. We cannot re-vamp the police force but you know what? We can be honest in our own little jobs whatever we do - teaching, buying/selling or even policing. We cannot form strong, efficient legal systems but if someone offers to "dash" us money to do something that's wrong, we can refuse. We cannot form good customs and immigration forces but if we are using the "corrupt" customs force for our business, we can choose to import genuine medicine and authentic goods. We cannot build private airports but if we find ourselves eating something in the "corrupt" airports, we can put our litter in the bins. If there are no bins, we can hold on to our litter until we find one, We can refuse to give bribes to "corrupt" officials at all cost. We cannot reduce the cost of petroleum but when filling our cars at the petrol station, we can refrain from offering the attendants a bribe to fill our tanks for free.
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naijacutee:

My brother, reality is knowing that knowing that between action and reaction, there exists the power to choose what your reaction will be. One of the reasons for things degrading to this state is that we generally tend to follow what everyone else is doing - for one reason or the other. What stops you from listening to your own conscience and refusing to do what everyone else is doing, simply because it's wrong? What?. In response to your question, I was born and bred in Nigeria, where I lived for 17 years. Yes, I have experienced hunger. Yes, I have experienced peer pressure, Yes I have experienced temptation. Sometimes I have given in, most of the time I have tried not to. However, I will never be content with accepting what I see around me as the ideal way to live because it simply is not. I will make an effort to live my life in the way that I perceive to be right, not the way that others are living. That is reality.