Mrs.Chima:
Sis..

What do you think of this statement?

"Why are Blacks asking for million dollars reparations from the Whites when Africans sold their children for a mere cloth wOrth less than a dime?"

"How can Africans complain about White Imperialism when they are the world greatest azz kissers and want to talk, eat, and live like us"

These are statements from a White KKK man. He is brutally honest and NOI in the area hates him!

he has his reasons for feeling the way he does.
can't say that I blame him. I just hope he knows that not all blacks want reparations..i sure as hell don't. I don't want anything from white American folks, esp. anything free.

because they are the TRUE "indian givers".

Anything they give you comes with a price, and if they can't have their way they will take it back..

*Kails*:


he has his reasons for feeling the way he does.
can't say that I blame him. I just hope he knows that not all blacks want reparations..i sure as hell don't. I don't want anything from white American folks, esp. anything free.

because they are the TRUE "indian givers".

Anything they give you comes with a price, and if they can't have their way they will take it back..

That's true about the giving part.

It was funny to see Africans pissed off at the azz kissing part because when I was in Africa I saw the azz kissing in the name of hospitality.

PhysicsQED: And to the non-AA posters in the thread

It kinda says a lot about them than the people they talk about...

KidStranglehold: And I believe a simple Google search would provide one with images of African slums. Like this...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=African+slums

See how easy that was??

So yeah I never searched real hard for anything.

That is a fake site with no images you posted up there. Indeed you've searched real hard with nothing to show for it.

You're bothered about africam slums when 99% of all ghettoes are inhabited by people of your type.

The Igbo Values Of Success, Education And Hardwork: A Case Of The Robeson Family

It is quite known that the Igbo people are a success-oriented people who have a penchant for hardwork, success, education and achievement. They are known to be well-traveled, often traveling to distant places where they make good living for themselves. They are also known to be business-minded, financially savvy and determined, taking pride in what they do and often distinguishing themselves in what ever field endeavor they find themselves in.

The aim of this essay is to showcase the unique trait for success and achievement which the Igbo people value no matter where they find themselves in using the Robeson family of North Carolina/Philadelphia as a case study.

The Robeson Family are an Igbo-African American family from North Carolina. The man, Mr. William Drew Robeson was born into slavery and later escaped from slavery in 1860 at 15 years, together with his brother, Ezekiel Robeson. His father, Benjamin Robeson, was born into slavery on the Roberson plantation near Cross Road Township and Raleigh, Martin County, North Carolina. William Robeson was of Igbo descent, having descended, through his Igbo father, from Igbo slaves enslaved from the Bight of Biafra and shipped to the Americas(North, Central and South America).

Mrs Maria Louisa Bustill-Robeson was born in 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of Igbo African, Native American, and Anglo-American descent. She was a descendant of the Igbo people on her paternal side through her great-grand father, Cyrus Bustill, an Eboe slave who had bought his freedom since mid 1700s.

The Robeson and Bustill families lived during the peak of the slave trade era, which was characterized by difficult living conditions for blacks and racial discrimination against black people(people of color). Despite the circumstances which they found themselves in, these two distinguished Eboe families worked hard and achieved success. Mr. William distinguished himself from many blacks of his time by attending college (Lincoln University) and obtaining an undergraduate degree, and later another one in Theology. Maria(often called Louisa as a child) also attended university, Lincoln University. Her great-grand father, Bustill, after escaping from slavery moved to Philadelphia where he opened a bakery business. Active with other free black leaders, Mr. Bustill became one of the founders in Philadelphia of the Free African Society in 1787, "the first mutual aid organization of African Americans. Through the years, the Bustill Eboe family achieved success and merit by becoming teachers, artists, business people, and pioneers in many professions.

Louisa was was already teaching when she met Robeson. She married Robeson in 1878 after which they had 7 children together, two of which died in infancy.

Both the Robesons emphasized education and advancement for their children. Their first daughter, Gertrude Lascet Robeson (1880), died as an infant. It was an "upwardly mobile" family; all but one of their sons were highly successful as adults, with two having professional careers. William Drew (Bill) Robeson, Jr.(1881-1927) became a physician in Washington, DC. Their daughter Marian M. Robeson (1894-1977) married Dr. William Forsythe and moved to Philadelphia; her husband became a successful businessman. Benjamin C. Robeson (1892-1966), became a minister at 'Mother Zion" African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Harlem, which was the second independent African-American denomination in the nation. John Bunyan Reeve Robeson (1886-1930) aka Reed Robeson, after being sent from home by his father for his propensity for getting into altercations with whites, married and moved to Detroit, where he worked as a laborer and may have worked at a hotel, but he died young and in poverty.

The youngest surviving child, Paul LeRoy Robeson, better known as Paul Robeson (1898-1976), became an internationally known athlete, orator, singer and actor. He also became an activist for civil rights. Another child died at birth, but the name is not known.

Noteworthy about these two notable Eboe families is that they found themselves living in the peak of slavery and surrounded by racism and difficult living circumstances for black people and despite the odds they distinguished themselves in their respective fields of endeavor. A symbolic feat for many blacks of that time.

Reading through the write up, one would notice the Igbo values of hard work, success, business mind, achievement, education, determination, and perseverance playing out in the lives of the families and their descendants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Drew_Robeson_I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Louisa_Bustill#cite_note-boyle-5

Drop your comments here:
https://www.nairaland.com/1430511/igbo-values-success-education-hardwork

bigfrancis21:

That is a fake site with no images you posted up there. Indeed you've searched real hard with nothing to show for it.

You're bothered about africam slums when 99% of all ghettoes are inhabited by people of your type.

What fake site You're not even making sense.

As for images.
https://www.google.com/search?q=African+slums&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.51773540,d.dmg,pv.xjs.s.en_US.GZikMza0zSU.O&biw=1123&bih=738&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=n34vUsDVDri64AO_rIC4Dw

See how easy that was?

And what do you mean by type of people? You're delusional.

Akhenaten:


Not always true. Many coastal communities were depleted by European slave raids. Europeans started the slave trade. So do not try to pin the blame on Africans.

The Europeans used the Africans, by causing mistrust amongst groups that led to the wars.

And BTW, the Arabs went into the interior to capture slaves. They used African mercenaries to work for them, but Arab slavers were directly involved in the slave trade. Go to Zanzibar in East Africa or the coastal cities in East Africa, which were once ruled by the Omani Arabs.

Akhenaten:


Not always true. Many coastal communities were depleted by European slave raids. Europeans started the slave trade. So do not try to pin the blame on Africans.

The Europeans used the Africans, by causing mistrust amongst groups that led to the wars.

And BTW, the Arabs went into the interior to capture slaves. They used African mercenaries to work for them, but Arab slavers were directly involved in the slave trade. Go to Zanzibar in East Africa or the coastal cities in East Africa, which were once ruled by the Omani Arabs.

thank you very much, Africa have gone through unimaginable humiliation