Drusilla's Imperfection

in most of her posts, our darling sister drusilla makes it clear that she is pro black. and I love her for it. but there seems to be something not too right with her views. she seems not to appreciate the fact that black people have got a lot of imperfections too. such as black on black violence. and also the evils of the black people in mother africa.

in a particular thread i read her say-"a black man can never hurt me". this gives me the impression that may be she feels that black people are so innocent and can't hurt an ant. that they are innocent victims of injustice. for me, the black man is a victim of injustice. but for me to use the word innocent, i use it on individual levels. and not for a generalisation of the character of a group/race.  no race deserves that description.

nevertheless, i must confess, reading her posts made me more knowledgeable. thank you sister

but oga 9-2-5, thousands of blacks of various ages and both sexes have been hacked to death in nigeria because of their tribe or religion. is it not violence. is it not worrisome? hacking someone down b/c of the color of her skin and hacking another for the geography of her birth or her religion are both evil and the perpertrators of both crimes are evil people wether they are white or black or yellow or whatever.

black people have been victims for long. but black people are no angels. I have been in europe for about a year and i have learnt a lot and of course there is still a lot to learn from people like u who have been here for some time. but may be I should say U've been away from africa for too long. we got some evils going on at home too. man's injustice to man. we shouldn't shy away from it simple b/c it's black man doint it to black man.

if a white man hits me, i'm annoyed but if my brother(black man) hits me, it annoys me even more.

I think for whites it's different.
 if another white guy hits them, they're annoyed. but if a black guy hits them, it annoys them even more.

abeg o, i no want drusilla wahala!!!!!if a white man hits me, i wont be surprised. he is already a notorious evil. but if a brother, who i expect to think better does it to me. it hurts further. that's what i meant.

violence is evil-white on white, white on black black on black. all are evil. while there is a lot of stories about white on white violence-the world wars and civil wars etc, and white on others-numerous, black on black also exists.

in summary, i agree with you but i just worry that drusilla appears to have the impression that black people are a set of innocent harmless victims of an unfair world. that is not 100%correct.

We can cry black love all we want,even us naijas will run away from predominantly black neighborhoods because the crime rates are higher and the schools are bad.

It's sad to say but whenever I come into a neighborhood and its all black people,I feel unsafe and before long it is proven right why I should move.

I hope this statement doesn't invite certain people to chew and spew me out.
Oh well!!!

_{I love my black folks but we too dey do am for crime}

so your saying crime is a racial thing? 
if a black man was rich, comfortable, educated and all that, he would still commit violent crimes 'cause he's black?

i modified your post because I'm black and not a criminal. 


i like diversity but i wouldn't mind living in a predominantly black neighborhood. take PG county for example   

If a black man hits me, I'll smack his teeth off. If a white man hits me, I'll take it as life, those guys will give my black ass a hundred years without parole. 

every human is cappable of violence.
I don't know why ours became a point of reference
What are the root causes of violence  - poverty, discrimination (racism), neglects  etc

toshman,

 

 :d

Genial,

Smile.

Genial,

If you understood how much I laugh and smile and grin when I post here, you would understand cheesy. Smile.

Genial,

Before you go, could you take a try at answering the question?

This one:

Please answer this.

Why do we have historical records that the Blackman has always called the Whiteman -- the devil or children of the devil? Is this proof that the Blackman is bad?

Egypt 5000 years ago or so:

Egyptians called white foreigners: Homosexuals who worship the devil (seth).

Congo, India, SE ASIA about 600 or so years ago:

The devils were white and the Gods were Black.

CONGO"The indigenous peoples of the Congo," he wrote, "are all black in color, some more so, some less so. Many are to be seen who are the color of chestnut and some tend to be more olive-colored. But the one who is of the deepest black in color is held by them to be the most beautiful. Some are born somewhat light-skinned, but as they grow older they become darker and darker. This occurs because their mothers make use of the artifice of an ointment,  with which they anoint their infants, exposing them once they have been anointed, to the rays of the sun, then leaving them there for long periods, and repeating this action over and over,  There are some children who although their parents are black, are born white skinned and although they anoint them and use all manners of artifice they can never be transformed into blackskinned people. And these are regarded by the Congolese as monsters. They have the same features and the same tightly curled hair as the black Congolese, but their skin is white and they are short-sighted, As a result, children in those areas, where a white has never been seen before, would become terrified, fleeing in horror from us, no less than our children here are terrified by the sight of a black also fleeing in horror for them.[Teruel, Antonio de, Narrative Description of, the Kingdom of the Congo (1663-1664) Ms. 3533:3574/National Library, Madrid, Spain]

SOUTH INDIA

"It is a fact that in this country when a child is born they anoint him once a week with oil of sesame, and this makes him grow much darker than when he was born. For I assure you that the darkest man is here the most highly esteemed and considered better than the others who are not so dark. Let me add that in very truth these people portray and depict their gods and their idols black their devils white as snow. For they say the God and all the saints are black and the devils are all white. That is why they portray them as I have described. And similarly they make the images of their idols all black."[Marco Polo, The Travels, translated and with an Introduction by Ronald Latham, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1958]

SOUTHEAST ASIA"For the complexion of men,they consider black the most beautiful. In all the kingdoms of the southern region, it is the same."[Nan Ts'i Chou, quoted by Rene Gaston Georges Maspero, The Kingdom of Champa. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949]

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Since we can show thousands of years of Blacks associating "whiteness" with the devil, is this a sign of our Black Racism?

Why have Black people consistently sent this message "that whites are to be associated with devils" down through thousands of years?

Why is it that in this modern world, we indeed find that yes, a lot of whites are homosexuals and yes, whites have done a lot of really horrible devilment?

Anybody who says that only the white man is bad is extremely delusional and will keep getting smacked by Donzman. Intolerable, get a brain. Evil knows no skin colour, it wasn't the white man who compelled Hutus and Tutsis to butcher themselves like wild animals.

So Tutsis are nothing but tools who have no opinions or mental capabilities of their own? Maybe Tutsis wanted control so they alligned with the white man in order to gain that control as opposed to the white man hating Hutus for whatever reason. Tutsis used the western support to their own advantage. Ever thought of that? Think my friend, 2 sides to a coin.