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Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by BlackManta(m): 9:02pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
travelland: I was being sarcastic ma The person I quoted was trying to justify racism. He thinks racism is natural and okay. He knows why I quoted him like that. Racism fall on him 2 Likes |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Nowenuse: 9:05pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
travelland: He is correct. Nowenuse: |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by travelland(f): 9:09pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
BlackManta: I know nor I'm shocked at how low some people are, but it explains a lot why people put themselves through inhuman situations just to migrate. It's psychological slavery. 1 Like |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by travelland(f): 9:11pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Nowenuse: No, he's not. Kindly take your inferiority else where Sir, I refuse to exchange words with you, bye. 1 Like |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Reggie2(m): 9:16pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
millomaniac: I was about responding to op's long writeup when I saw yours. You have said my mind. 1 Like |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Outofsync(m): 9:20pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
GiantParrot:The Gospel truth! |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Ugosample(m): 9:26pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
victorvezx: The person you quoted said the truth! Throughout the centurirs, the world has never been fair to the weak. That's it 2 Likes |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Albertone(m): 9:28pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
What pains me most is that,our leaders do not lay good examples.They indulge in corruption in which the news spreads like bonfire in the harmattan.Yet,this same leaders do not face racism among the whites.Buhari uses their medical facilities freely,he interacts with their leaders freely,he even strolls along their streets freely without any form of racism.now,my question is:Who is supposed to be subjected to racism between our leaders who lay bad examples and our fellow innocent blacks? |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Ugosample(m): 9:32pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Bidobado: Excuses upon excuses WHO were instrumental to deposing African leaders who were considered progressives? Their fellow Africans And besides this is the 21st century, is this the excuse we will still be giving 3 Likes |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by RaptorX: 9:37pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Just another dumb African that thought marrying a white person will make white people accept them. But all he got was his nigga wake up call only to come here and be disturbing us with his soliloquy about racism like he has never experienced racism before married to a white woman in Florida, all the dirty looks he gets when he is out and about with his wife what does he think those looks are, let him be deceiving himself with trying to preach to other Africans while he is laid up under a white woman, I know his type and his write up did not impress me one bit. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by stdammis(m): 9:39pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
jcgodfrey: "Whites are scared of blacks" does not mean white countries are scared of black countries. It simply means that a black man is most likely seen as a threat or danger when he approaches a group of white people, or walks into a store, or a bank. What do you think about those black people that have been killed by the police for senseless reasons, and if a white man does the same thing he gets to keep his life. Believe it or not, the truth is if you are a black man in America, you must be careful. That racism has nothing to do with development is totally wrong. They've been talking about ending racism for decades now but it's still there. If we Africans want to be respected we have to show that we deserve it.....until then..... 2 Likes |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Eagba(m): 10:09pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
EgunMogaji:i almost got irritated by your comment, but then i looked at the name and remember that i always see you as a stupid person, so i wasn't bothered. |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Eagba(m): 10:23pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
drakeli:ignore her and she'll come crushing back |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Nobody: 10:29pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Eagba: Excellent, my reputation precedes me as a "no-nonsense call it the way it is" person. I'm glad we were able to settle that without causing other readers anguish. Have a wonderful weekend. 2 Likes
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Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Eagba(m): 10:36pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Hey hey guys its not gloom and doom, lets look at the bright side on racism. Our politicians that under develop us and run to the abroad will be treated like shits. Thereby making them valueless things are not going to change until we develop africa |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Eagba(m): 10:47pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
EgunMogaji:i like the meme you used |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by WrathOfHadez(m): 10:51pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
deedeedee1: So north Korea and China are extremely rich and industrialised? 2 Likes |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by drakeli: 11:06pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Eagba:Exactly what I did . Even my team leader told me I should stop talking to her for the meantime. He even invited me to join him for lunch so that we could socialize together and he could tell me what I can do to make a girl like her listen to me. I was whaoooed. Oyinbo life too simple. |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by OluDare01(m): 11:28pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Optional09:Exactly what I wanted to say. I hate it when people ask mumu questions. You've got a GPS. Use the damn thing! |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by jaxxy(m): 2:44am On Jun 09, 2018 |
millomaniac: U 4got to mention the ladies cud be lesb and not want a man bothering them. When I see 2 white ladies close 2geda dat wat comes to my head. Yes blacks and Africa have significant issues dat affect us bt not everything happens wrongly because ure black. |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by abdeiz(m): 3:00am On Jun 09, 2018 |
Outofsync: You just said what is on my mind better than i did |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Nobody: 3:28am On Jun 09, 2018 |
Maybe they think you are a thief. |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Kmartt(m): 6:27am On Jun 09, 2018 |
Exactly my thought! |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by LordAdam16: 7:04am On Jun 09, 2018 |
deedeedee1: Dude, you should read more if you rarely "see" or "hear" Asians complain about racism. They do. And whether it is in America or the Middle East, they get discriminated against. The difference however is that as you said Asia is gradually becoming a high-income continent. The China-US trade deficit is over $300b. The size of our economy is around $500b. Japan, China are two of the top 3 economies. Unemployment rate in Hong Kong is less than 1%. But here's the thing, while Asians complain about racism in host countries. They don't treat it the way blacks treat it, because they themselves don't feel inferior to the whites. Blacks do. Blacks blame the whites for virtually every problem they face, whether in Africa or in North America. Asians don't have that time. Japan became the second largest economy in the world in the same time it took Germany to become the largest economy in Europe. Both countries lost the second world war. The Japs see themselves as peculiar people, like the Germans and Jews do. To become a Jew you only have to have Jewish parent, to be a true Jap, you have to be born by two Japanese parents and raised in Japan. Japanese are racist to fellow Asians and even half-Japs. 1 in 3 tourists encounter racism in Japan. So you can't be racist to a racist. Do you want to talk about the Chinese, Indians, Koreans, Malays, Thais, Vets. Blacks do not deserve respect. Individually, yes; and if you excel in personal undertakings, many people with racist tendencies will even accept you; case in point the Black politicians in Italy and Russia winning posts, a mixed Black Jap winning a beauty pageant in Japan (they aren't accepted in the entire country, but they get by). But collectively, as a group, we have done nothing to deserve respect. We can win as many prizes for individual achievement out there, but as long as Africa remains a stain on this planet, brimming with resources yet the disease, poverty, and non-productivity is perplexing; no one would take the Afro race serious, and nor should they. The population of China and Africa is the same. Yet, while China practiced a one-child policy starting several decades back to curb overpopulation because of finite resources, over here we are still giving birth like rats even though we lack the technical knowhow to produce toothpicks. Here's Lord Lugard's (some people's hero, since Nigeria's structure can't be negotiated anymore) take on Africans "In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person. Lacking in self control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewelry. His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future, or grief for the past." And even though the Brits conquered and pummeled India like they did parts of Africa, here was Lord Lugard's comparison on Europeans, Asiatics, and Africans. "His [ An African] mind is far nearer to the animal world than the that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the State he has reached." Europeans and Asians on one hand and Africans on the other. It wasn't just color. It takes a pathological sense of victimhood for anyone to think it is only about color. Even then at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries, when Britain had Africa and Asia well within its grip, Lugard knew which race was a doormat and which was at least the equal of Europeans. 100 years on and he couldn't have been more correct. -Lord 5 Likes |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by peacengine(m): 8:42am On Jun 09, 2018 |
This Lord Adam dude acts like he knows what he's talking about but no. The oldest civilization was in Egypt, Egyptians were blacks, the next was in Ethiopia and they were blacks too, yet even though they were both civilized white race still had no respect. They still invaded once their technologies were potent enough in terms of weaponry. Most people taken for slavery were West Africans because they capitalized on their mental weaknesses especially South Westerners, they also took people via Eastern route through Calabar but not as many as Badagry route. For as little as 1 bottle of dry gin, Westerners were willing to give 40 humans from their tribes in exchange. Things like mirrors, sugar, salt, were all used in trading. Same inferiority I see on this thread. Some even blaming themselves for another person's attitude towards them, others saying no race hates black, very stupid views 1 Like |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by peacengine(m): 8:47am On Jun 09, 2018 |
drakeli: Dude, focus on your race, she has just given you a tip of their deadly poison but low self esteem will not allow you to see it. By the time white girls deal with you that "oyinbo life is so simple" wen you de talk go change to another thing 1 Like |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by peacengine(m): 8:52am On Jun 09, 2018 |
Bidobado: Gbam 1 Like |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by peacengine(m): 8:56am On Jun 09, 2018 |
Nowenuse: They are not looking down on you because of your abilities, it is the color of your skin they are looking at. Some of them see you as a monkey, chimpanzee, ape, that's how they see you |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by LordAdam16: 10:50am On Jun 09, 2018 |
peacengine: Egyptians were mixed, not black. Ethiopians were respected by the Assyrians, Persians, and Romans. They didn't pursue too far out militarily, so they were never taken as existential threats. Even the Nubians took black slaves from surrounding black societies around them. The Bini king in time past were buried with the heads of up to 2,000 captured slaves. Slavery is slavery. Whether inter-racial or intra-racial, it is bad, it has been abolished, and we have to move forward. Napolean went to Egypt and was awed. The Brits went to India and were awed. The Brits/French/Germans came to sub-Saharan Africa and were embarrassed. Even the Spanish who landed in South America had better things to say about the native population than their contemporaries had to say about sub-Saharan Africa. So the Europeans ransacked Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America at about the same time. 100 years later, only Africa is struggling at the bottom, and yet you want them to respect you? How? Why? Respect is earned. And collectively as a people, we have done nothing in the past to deserve any respect. We are doing nothing at the moment to deserve any respect. That's why we've become professional protesters. We are great at giving speeches and pointing out the frailties of the white man, but we have no solution to the Malaria epidemic. We can't seem to know how to curb the despicable situation where aid for refugees is sold in the open market. And that's the fact. The problem of the black race is the Black Man's inability to work together with fellow Blacks for the collective good of the black community. Individually we are excellent, collectively we are abysmal. Until we work on ourselves more than we concern ourselves about what others think of us (unfairly or not), we'd always be at the bottom. -Lord 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Nowenuse: 11:46am On Jun 09, 2018 |
travelland: People just use words which they do not know the meaning anyhow nowadays. Pathetic. |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Mouthgag: 12:04pm On Jun 09, 2018 |
deedeedee1:Your first problem is what I call 'slave acceptance'. The fact that you accept that you are "black" when obviously you aren't. The pale of pink people perceive the black colour as being dirty, Inferior, evil etc (black power, blacklist etc) while white is the direct opposite. Check your skin colour, ARE YOU BLACK? ? There's no and never have been any skin colour that is black or white. 1 Like |
Re: My Experience Of Racism In America, What Africans Can Learn From It- Aroms Aigbe by Nowenuse: 12:06pm On Jun 09, 2018 |
peacengine: The Europeans never recognized nor agreed to the fact that Ancient Egyptians or Abbysinians (Ethiopians) were black. That is why they do not classify us under the same racial category with these people. I have done an extensive research on this. They claim Horn africans are of Hamitic-semitic descent just like the Arabs while ancient Egyptians were caucasian just like current day north africans... We all know this is false.. But hey they invented all these terminologies and hence did the classifications. |
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