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Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by holysainbj(m): 7:23am On Nov 15, 2016 |
OP let me give u an example How can u give advice on something u've never felt or experienced? Can u say to d poor boy/girl on d street without clothings and food, "I understand what you are passing through" can u say to a friend who lost d parent, "I understand how u feel" when u've not lost a close one b4? OP u r a really great thinker and I had to read in-depth to understand ur view but it's wrong Chimamanda is so right... its just like dat law maxim "u can't give what u dont have" 3 Likes |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by clydedaniels(m): 7:23am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Eastactivist: U no sabi read?? |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by samsard(m): 7:23am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Ujoan:I love your response, just perfect. |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Nobody: 7:24am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Her comment is racist. |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Geeweeny(m): 7:25am On Nov 15, 2016 |
[quote author=martineverest post=51044079]blacks will always cry of being the victims of racism,but they ve forgotten that tribalism is d worst form of racism[/quote::::U jst took the words out of my mind,i think we blacks should take a chill pill about racism,i just get bored and tired wen i hear talks abt bein oppresed by d whites,while down here an igbo man cannot wish a yoruba or hausa man good,or a south african killin a nigerian for no jst cause,the problm is we the BLACKS |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by africandollar: 7:25am On Nov 15, 2016 |
OP you are right with that. As much as I appreciate Adichie for her talents as a novelist I can't but disagree with her on some issues which makes her come across as a tribalist, feminist and of recent a racist! |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Generalyemi(m): 7:30am On Nov 15, 2016 |
rhektor: ehhhh .old man we c u....irrelevant bloggers |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by kinibigdeal(m): 7:30am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Are you a rascist? chiwetaluAGU: |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Nobody: 7:33am On Nov 15, 2016 |
samsard: Critism is part of why we are here bros. Without critism no one can improve. |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by chiraqDemon(m): 7:34am On Nov 15, 2016 |
How does this affect ASUU one week warning strike that is starting tomorrow 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Nobody: 7:36am On Nov 15, 2016 |
A racist? Not sure. A tribal bigot? Yes |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by superstarDikk(m): 7:37am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Eastactivist:Read and understand bro. The guy is smart |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Nobody: 7:41am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Adichie is surely a biased racist. An interview where people should give their different views without coming in the way of others became a war zone. Her aggressive nature can be seen in the way she fights male domination and even refused to acknowledge her husband's name. |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by infohenry(m): 7:42am On Nov 15, 2016 |
martineverest:Thank you bro. Adichie is an igbo woman before going to america to fight racism or any form of discrimination, let her come back to igbo land and speak out about the scourge of osu caste system that is used to reduce their follow igbo man with the same colour and language to sub human being. I never thought how serious this osu of a thing until my recent experience where a young man searxhing for job and I introduced him to well placed guy in oil industry who came from the same village with him but to my suprise to idiot after the meeting told me that he is ano osu and his people do not associate with them, I was shocked and asked him you and this guy who is outcaste because the osu here is you that will need transport from me now or you trek home. Adichie stop seeking attention elsewhere come home ano speak for the few oppressed in your fatherland. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by superstarDikk(m): 7:43am On Nov 15, 2016 |
chiwetaluAGU:First, i'm not sure u read the post. Second, no Northern person complains about marginalization. Third, your people have always supported Trump, now a northerner is supporting him and you think he doesn't have the right to? The op said nothing bad about Adichie, he is just smart. |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Elxandre(m): 7:43am On Nov 15, 2016 |
emeninevalentin:Yet she refused to come back home. |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Nobody: 7:44am On Nov 15, 2016 |
we should all see a common core in all this... accept that common core as the TRUTH. whether it is perceived as racism, ethnic-bias, gender-bias, homophobic-bias, financial-exclusion, glass-ceiling, tribalism, parental-preference, sports-bias etc. everything is a bias (inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.) We all express it one way or the other and somehow hold a worldview that is completely contradictory to various positions that shows that we are all racists in some wavelength of the bias spectrum. WE ARE ALL CHRONIC HYPOCRITES. WE ARE ALL RACISTS AT OUR CORE 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Welly12: 7:45am On Nov 15, 2016 |
jeeqaa7:NFCS does! |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by 200dexter(m): 7:46am On Nov 15, 2016 |
AlPeter:. |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by excellentelitec(f): 7:48am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Op. I believe you have been reading all her articles in order to find fault and I'm sure u have found it and u deed not even articulate before pouring out your tribalism. And I believe you have not travelled out of the shores of Nigeria, it would have helped you to understand the true meaning of "BLACK" and the oppression followed to it. How can a Richman understand the true meaning of poverty? Have u been to Russia with your black skin before? 4 Likes |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Elxandre(m): 7:52am On Nov 15, 2016 |
She's lucky she wasn't talking to me. Whites don't get to talk about racism, yet most African families are UNHAPPY and mostly unsupportive when their 'successful' sons marry white women. I'm certain African Americans and Hispanics discriminate against whites and call them insulting names. |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Saintp(m): 7:54am On Nov 15, 2016 |
martineverest: You are damn right. Most people who can't stand this racism thing are Conc tribalists. Bad people judging bad people, that's what most Nigerians are. |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by tjskii(f): 7:54am On Nov 15, 2016 |
I watched an excerpt of that interview, and I didn't like adichie's mannerisms, she was sarcastic rude and condescending, you could literally feel the animosity for white folks dripping from her words, she was practically racist |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by ElsonMorali: 7:57am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Sorry original OP, but the statement you ascribed to her isn't enough to label her a racist. Saying that whites shouldn't define the term racism doesn't mean whites don't have the right to talk about racism. It affects everybody, so everybody should talk about it, but the truth is the black man is considered the least of all the races, Negroid, Mongoloid and Caucasoid, so they bear the brunt of racism the most. Abrogating the rights to DEFINE racism to the whites is like asking the whites to write the history of the black man, (which they've done anyway). So in this instance, Adichie Chimamanda is correct. 3 Likes |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Elxandre(m): 7:57am On Nov 15, 2016 |
LaEvilIMiss:Speak for yourself. I'm certainly not Racist! I only care about the fact that you are human, not a single care given about something as superficial as skin colour. |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Nobody: 8:04am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Elxandre: TRUE and i respect that.. but you a statistic on your own. it is a numbers game and that is how generalizations come to be.. not based on opinionated views of one but common views of all. Would you call Donald Trumps voters "Racists" definitely not all of them are racists. Would you call Mikel Obi a terrible footballer.. definitely Chelsea is a good team.. but in the end.. if you want to be objective.. you look at the results not the effort 1 Like |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Endy4all(m): 8:07am On Nov 15, 2016 |
In her novel; AMERICANAH she said "Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it" 1 Like |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by salamibigi(m): 8:14am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Baba I agree with what she said joor........tho there's racism against whites too, the blacks are mostly affected and donald trump has helped fuelled it. It's not what you say that matters, it is how your followers interpret it. 1 Like |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Endy4all(m): 8:17am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Still quoting her. WHO IS RECIST In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past...... Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racists. |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Obipat(m): 8:20am On Nov 15, 2016 |
mrrights:from your point of view, Mohamed Ali is a Racists? they criticised whites because of the way they treated blacks. No wonder they call you a.boki 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by Nobody: 8:21am On Nov 15, 2016 |
Ujuhot: 1 Like |
Re: Is Chimamanda Adichie A Racist? by samsard(m): 8:23am On Nov 15, 2016 |
abiodunalasa:Alright. |
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