Gandhi Was A Racist.

Yeah, true.

  But why am I having this feeling that we will never be united  Maybe my pessimism getting the better of me 

we are definitely not united.

Unity is not when your name tells you you're Yoruba instead of Nigerian.

I was using it as an example.
Of course there's more depth to it than that. 

If unity involves getting rid of my customs and traditions then I want no part of it.


What is Nigerian?. . .What is an American Name? Nigeria is made up of different ethnic groups, if your name says you're from one of those ethnic groups, your name says you're Nigerian. When I'm watching T.V. and see an Igbo/Yoruba name, I recognize it as a Nigerian name. In our diversity lies our identity!!

If we're all uniform, I won't feel the same being Nigerian anymore.

Why won't there be a divide between the ethnic groups when none of them were responsible for the formation of this country. There cannot be forced unity, every ethnic group has to come together and lay down a strategy that will suit everybody. That is how unity is built, when people consent to it. Some European can't arbitrarily name a country without the supposed nationals being privy to this formation and expect unity. Unity based on what?. . .A country you had no hand in forming?. . .We need to literally reform the country if we expect any unity whatsoever, begin with giving every region great autonomy and decentralize power. In that manner, every group will have greater control of their own destiny. I propose that if everyone works in their own best interest, the nation will turn out better and more competitive. What incentive does the Lagos State Governor have to improve Lagos if everything he does is monitored by some cow in Abuja?

By the way Uche2nna, isn't it ironic you use 'tribe' in your write-up but we have WesleyanA criticizing white reporters for doing same? 

I myself have refered to us as "tribes" until i saw the article. 
See what racism does to people. It degrades them.

choogaloonga tribe of africa, wabenzi tribe of kenya, zulu "tribe" of africa 



Just like African Americans still refering to themselves as "niggers"

no i was only saying,
you compared it with American names and i tried to point out the differences.


Nigeria is divided,no doubts about it.
And names is just a minor issue compared to stuff like language, culture, religion, politics and all the big stuff that divide us.


it's ok to have some cultural diversity, but everything else esp. Politics should be ONE.

this takes us back to the thread

http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-17201.0.html

i still do believe we are all guilty

na wa oo
i never thought Ghandi was racist. then again who knows, maybe mother teresa was a serial killer

no seriously though, i wont be surprised although i like to believe he was a good man, i have experienced racism from indians here, no joke. Any way what ever mehn

thanks for the info Drusilla, wow you two are kind of similar, is he a hero of yours? i mean his ideas, just imagine it was white people he hated instead of blacks   joking

I think they'D rather have food.

@Drusilla

If blacks end up dominating the world, will you still be doing what you're doing now in the other direction?

Donzman,

In short: I do not want Blacks to become the leader of this system.

I think the system is bad, whether you slap a black face on it or not!

I want the system to end. I don't want to reform it (except as a bandaid), I want to end it.

For everybody.

Donzman,

African Americans just call the system: "Global White Supremacy" (i.e. because whites dominate people systems (economics, distributions, etc, etc) they pretty much take from POC (people of color)) while the people of color, starve to death or are just hungry filling boats of food to ship to Europe.