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I have just taken a look at my email. I found a letter posted to naijapolitics by one of the Igbo chaps that seem to exist to verbally and emotionally abuse me. Apparently, if these folk did not abuse me they would not feel alive. This particular chap must have read something that I said somewhere and it robbed him wrong and he let lose a string of invectives against me. He called me every negative name his limited vocabulary could muster, including his favorite, osu, though I am not an osu; apparently, he takes the prefix, osu in my name to mean that I belong to the low class cast called osu; I am a diala. He made me angry but, as usual, instead of fighting back by telling him what I think of him and his kind I displace my anger to my journal, I analyze my feelings towards these people. God, I find these people disgusting.

Why does this monkey call me Osu, anyway? He probably reasons (if what he does is called reasoning) that I must be an Osu to be angry at Igbos, that I feel like Igbos did something bad to me, enslaved me to be this much angry at them. Alternatively, he reasons (from his ass) that since Osus are lower class folk that it must hurt to be called an Osu, so to hurt me he calls me an Osu? This is monkey reasoning, isn’t it? A human being would reason that it is not appropriate to be called an Osu, even if one is one. Didn’t John Brown, a white man, fight and got killed trying to end slavery? Don’t idealistic hence developed human beings fight for justice even if they were not the ones unjustly treated? Igbo Negroes did not even fight to end slavery in their freaking land; they rather fought the white men who came to end their selling their people into slavery! I tell you, this man is a nigger and I would love to kick his nigger ass into the River Niger. He makes me sick with his criminal thinking and behaving patterns. (If you called him a nigger, since you are a black person, are you not calling yourself a nigger, too, or like the house nigger, have you so completely identified with the oppressor, white folk, that you call other black folk, field niggers, nigger? Good point, but we must remember that black folk do call other black folk, those who exhibit the dreaded Sambo behaviors associated with slaves, nigger; that is probably why I call this baboon a nigger. Boy, I loathe him and his kind; they make black folk seem primitive.)

I gave the Igbo chaps jostling with me the impression that I take them seriously; actually, to me they are no more than apes that I am trying to see if they could be transformed into human beings. Give them a chance and they would be chopping off each others heads, burying each other with each other to prove that they are very important apes, or stealing from each other and not feeling guilty. They are savages through and through. It would probably take several hundred years before they approximate civilized status. I humored them by talking back to them.

There are state terrorist (such as the former Soviet Union etc), group terrorists ( such as Muslim suicide squads, criminal gangs etc) and individual terrorists ( such as when one person knowing that another person is prone to fear tries to terrorize him into submitting to his will…the Biafra Internet Terrorists assumed that I am prone to fear and tried terrorizing me; they tried to intimidate me into embracing their political agenda, their wish for Biafra; I understand the nature of terrorism and intimidation and no human being can intimidate me, much less a bunch of savages…for many years I had nothing to do with them because I considered them primitive and avoided their company; it was only three years ago that I acknowledged my Africanness and exposed myself to them and they tried to rip me off; they were amusing).

I found their behaviors very unacceptable. I have given it some thinking why I found these people’s behaviors unacceptable. I think that I found their behaviors unacceptable because they represent everything that I find disgusting in human beings. More to the point, they remind me of what I do not like in Africans and black folk in general.

This is not unconscious self hatred (projected to Igbos) but conscious awareness of what I do not like in me and in our people, Igbos, Nigerians and Africans.

In my judgment, Igbos do not seem thoughtful; they tend to say whatever comes to their minds unmindful that words can hurt people. In fact, they seem to enjoy saying hurtful things. Their past time and recreation seems to lie in making derogatory statements about other people, unmindful that most human beings have fragile self esteems and that you could damage those self concepts by what you say.

We know that people who are productive and creative tend to be those who have positive self esteem, and that unproductive people, such as Africans are, tend to have low self esteem.

Damaging Africans already low self esteem contributes to their already low productivity.

But I see Igbos taking pleasure in saying nasty things about other people (imanjakiri, eko okwu, they call it). To me their behavior seems mindless.

Their apparent enjoyment of putting other folks down is probably a residue of their slave trading days. During their over 1000 years of selling their people into slavery they devalued human life. Slavery was stopped in Alaigbo only a hundred years ago (1902) by a foreigner, Lord Lugard, not by the Igbos, shame on them. I believe that they still have the bad habit of seeing people as worthless hence enjoy denigrating people. These people, if you associate with them, can damage your self esteem in a minute. They have so damaged self esteems that no wonder they are not creative.

If you listened to them you would think that they are civilized and value human life. But they did not fight for human dignity; none of them tried to stop slavery; it took white men to come and stop them from selling their brothers and sisters. I believe that if you gave them the opportunity they would resume selling their people, using the money they receive to buy the accoutrements of social prestige, such as chieftaincy titles, and feel no guilt from doing so. God, they seem like savages; their civilization is only skin deep.

They are proud and feel special; they feel superior to their neighbors and find every excuse to say derogatory things about them. I ask: what makes them feel proud and special, what have they contributed to knowledge? I am fairly up to date on the sciences (biology, chemistry, biology, mathematics etc) and do not remember coming across an Igbo (or African) who has made seminal contribution to them. They did not even invent the wheel or writing.

In the world of governance I do not remember hearing of an Igbo whose writings has shown us how to govern human beings well. Nor do I recall reading in history where they produced statesmen who unified their people and developed them; all I hear is that they were a stateless people whose social organization was at the baseline level of social organizations: communal level. In Marxian schema they had not attained higher levels of political development, such as feudalism, bourgeoisie and socialist society.

I do not believe that contemporary Igbos have what it takes to govern large polities; they lack the tact and diplomacy needed in holding diverse people together; their tendency to insulting folk would bring about war. I doubt that they can even manage an Igbo wide polity; Ojukwu was able to hold them together because the constraints of war made it impossible for folk to criticize his apparent authoritarian rule; without war the various clans would war with each other. Can you imagine an Owerri man taking orders from an Onitsha man, a person he considers not even Igbo! Hausas, who are more united, would best Igbos in political struggles, any day.



Igbos have contributed zilch to knowledge. If so why are they feeling special and proud? Shouldn’t they be hiding their heads in shame?

I personally feel ashamed that my race, black folk, is not accounted for when folk talk about contributions to science and philosophy. Come Igbos making black folk less productive by their primitive tendency to putting folk down.

In my view, folk who destroy other folk’s self esteems ought to be shot. That is correct, if you shot and killed the Igbos damaging other folk’s self esteems I would say good riddance. Those who contribute to the retrogression of humanity seem like savages.

If you have ever tried doing something with Igbos you probably have learned that when they see money they become criminals. The sign of money literally transform them to thieves. Instead of seeking ways to make the collective venture succeed they devote their little heads to figuring out ways to steal from it and in time to chase you out and appropriate the fruit of your work. And do you know what? They do not feel guilt from engaging in such antisocial behaviors. It is like they are amoral animals and do not have conscience and simply do what they think that they have to do to make it in life regardless of the morality involved. These people make the worst business partners and only a fool would partner with them and or trust them. They are too quick to steal and not feel bad about themselves from doing so.

An interesting aspect of Igbos is how unsophisticated they are. I used to think that they are smart but coming close to know them as they are, not as they pretend to be, I learned how naïve they are all around.

They have zero psychological knowledge. Though they know zilch about the nature of mental health they are quick to call folk who disagree with them sick. They call their Nigerian neighbors sick though they exhibit the symptoms of paranoia and narcissism. These people seem incapable of abstract thinking and are operating at lower levels of being.

In politics they are so naïve that they make you want to cry. They have absolutely no comprehension of power politics, what Germans call real politics; that politics is war by other means. In politics, as in war, the powerful win and rule the weak. They seem unaware that politics is war by peaceful means and that the powerful rule; we see Igbos, like children, telling other Nigerians that it is their turn to govern Nigeria. They want other people to give them power rather than earn it in the battle field of political competition. They are so pathetic they make you wonder what planet they dropped from. They alienate other Nigerians by insulting them yet they expect Nigerians to place them in power! They are not likely to rule Nigeria in decades, unless, of course, savvy politicians emerge from among them.

Part of their political naiveté is exhibited in the January 15, 1966 military coup. In it, mainly Igbo army officers killed mainly Hausa and other non-Igbo political leaders and military officers. It never occurred to them that politics is war and that what they did was a declaration of war on Northerners. Indeed, Igbos were allegedly taunting Northerners, saying something to the effect that they are going to rule the North forever. (Given what I know about them, their false pride, I would not doubt that they so behaved.)

As expected, in July 29, 1966 the North struck back and killed Igbos. Unfortunately, they did not stop at killing Igbo military leaders, they killed Igbo civilians. Igbos turned around and played innocent victims. If they were victims why did they kill Northern leaders? There were no victims; Igbos had no business killing Balewa, Ahmadu Bello and other Northern leaders while sparing Igbo leaders, such as Azikiwe and Okpara. (God, I feel like teaching these fellows real politics, forcing them to read such books as Machiavelli, The Prince; Hobbes, Leviathan; Locke, Second Treaty on Government; the writings on and by Prince von Metternich, Von Bismarck, Henry Kissinger, Pareto, von Clausewitz, Joseph Schumpeter, Edward Carr, George Kennan and other real politics scholars and practitioners.)

It is unfortunate that many Igbo civilians living in the North were killed; nevertheless, such is the nature of politics. If you kill peoples leaders what do you expect, that they play dead and allow you to succeed?

At present, misguided Igbos enjoy insulting Hausas, calling them derogatory names, such as aboki, gworo etc (it is my anger at some of the Igbo fools that call Hausas such names that got them to turn their anger at me). If this uncalled for assault on Hausa pride continues, when Hausas feel angry enough they will kill Igbos and, as usual, Igbos will imagine themselves innocent victims. At present their so-called leaders, Oha Na Eze Ndi Igbo (it should be Umuigbo, not Ndi igbo, for Ndi is third person plural; people do not refer to themselves in third party terms, but we are talking about fools), talk rubbish about reparation for the injustice done to them during the 1966 pogrom.

Of course, no one is going to pay them any reparation for they were part of a political chess game that turned out worse for them. (Regarding how to solve Nigeria’s seeming intractable political problems, I posited a viable political structure: a federation of no more than fifteen states, each major tribe a state and the smaller tribes grouped together into states; the country should not be more than fifteen states. See my political writings.)

In the main, Igbos seek political office for the prestige it gives them, not for what they want to do for the people. They want to become very important persons, VIP. If given political office they see it as from which they obtain public admiration and strut about as peacocks. They will betray you in a jiffy if doing so serves their individual needs for power and attention. They are not loyal to principle but to individual ego needs.

They are so pragmatic that it boarders on lack of principles and opportunism. They would make any bargain, even with the devil, to get what they desire, what gratifies their need for admiration, money and power. They would use you and discard you and to protect themselves tell lies about you and make it seem your fault that they cheated you. They generally engage in amoral behaviors to satisfy their cravings for public attention. Igbo land has become criminal land, 419 Central; do anything to become rich and you are made a chief in your village and nobody asks: how did you acquire your wealth? These people make me want to throw up.

Simply put, Igbos remind me of what I hate in Africans, and since I am an African what I hate in me. They represent my primitive side, the side I rejected and tried to hide from the public.

Igbos, in (Carl) Jungian categories are my shadow side, the dark side of me that I hide from light.

That is to say that I find them disgusting because I find certain aspects of me disgusting.

Since that primitive aspect of me would always be there, it follows that hating it and those who remind me of it is not the right thing to do. Human beings would always remain imperfect and make mistakes. The best thing to do is to gradually improve human beings without expecting them to become angels, perfect. I do not need to hate my shadow and I do not need to hate Igbos.

In the meantime, it is necessary for me to understand why I found Igbos disgusting. It is necessary to analyze my motivation and why I do what I do. An unexamined life, Aristotle observed, is not worth living. One must be brutally honest with ones thinking. I find Igbos primitive and disgusting.

I know that this is not the way Igbos see themselves. Generally, they fancy themselves special and imagine that they are God’s best creation, and that other people admire them. Admire them for what contribution to evolution? For just being alive and polluting the environment with their presence? To me it is what people contribute to science and technology that makes them worthwhile not their being around consuming food.

In my view, it is about time that Africans were told the brutal truth about them. In the past (and present) they were babied and told that their backwardness is the fault of other people. White folk are assumed the cause of their primitive level of social organization.

Unwittingly, white folk are made out as adults and Africans as children; it is adults’ fault that children are suffering. This is infantilizing Africans.

It is time Africans are told that it is their god damned fault that they are where they are in evolution. Their characters are too weak. They sold their brothers into slavery and do not feel guilt or remorse from that heinous crime. Instead, they blame their partners in crime, white folk, for slavery. They deny responsibility for their part in evil.

Given the opportunity to govern themselves all they do is steal from the public treasury; the word integrity is alien to them.

They seem to live for immediate gratification; they are self centered and find it difficult to devote their lives to serving public good.

To the extent that they work hard at all it is to appear socially important, to obtain social prestige and satisfy their infantile narcissistic cravings.

These people seldom engage in activity for the sake of that activity and or to do what serves the human race right.

Well, I think that it is about time the world stopped understanding Africans and making excuses for their shiftless behaviors; it is time the world told Africans the honest truth: that they are childish and need to grow up and accept responsibility for their fate. I think that Africans must be treated as adults who can handle the truth about them; we no longer need to treat them like children and not tell them the truth of how we see them.

In this light, I think that is time we told Igbos that they are part of Africa’s general shiftlessness and asked them to do something to become part of human civilization rather than merely masquerading as if they are special for they aren’t special.

As for me, it is necessary to understand why I found these people totally disgusting. I do not need to hide my feelings. I like those who work for the upliftment of mankind and would never like mere consumers of other peoples productions and while at it are narcissistic.

Finally, I know that it is wrong to talk about a group of people as if all of them behave alike. People are individuals; each of them has a unique personality. Not all Igbos behave as I described them here.

Be that as it may, there is such a thing as group personality. Political correctness discourages talking about group personalities but the fact is that each human group has characteristics unique to it.

We know that the English are smart and devious, that the French are intellectual and not given to military prowess, that the German is disciplined and given to military valor, that Americans are technological but not philosophical etc.

At the end of the Second World War American and English policy planners consciously tried to change what they called the German character so as to make Germans amenable to democracy, rather than the authoritarianism they were used to.

The point is that each group has unique traits and it helps to understand them, and change negative ones. Igbos have many positive traits, such as industry, but they also have tons of negative traits and ought to understand them and change them rather than feel defensive that some one talks about them. Whatever is hidden, sooner or later, comes to light.

Since they are a very opportunistic people and know that it is wrong to treat people as a class, in stereotypes, they would be the first to say that what I did is wrong. They would even threaten law suits, to manipulate the law courts. Let them try; I have in storage the negative statements they made about Hausas, Yorubas etc to counter their self serving threats of frivolous law suits. They put other people down, and those feel insulted and angry at them and some attack them and then they turn around and play innocent victims that ugly others attack. No, sir, they stimulate the attacks on them by their arrogance and their childishness of saying denigrating things about their neighbors. Like fools they expect those they verbally abuse not to fight back, to take it and smile. As It were their foolish god gave them the right to abuse other people and for those people to accept been abused. No, those derogated tend to feel degraded and fight back.

These people resent been seen in stereotypes but treat themselves in that manner, when they fancy their group superior to other groups. Of course, all human beings are the same, equal and one. The point is that when it serves them to see their selves in a positive group stereotype they do so but if one then sees them in a negative light they cry foul saying that they are stereotyped.

I am tempted to hate these people but that would amount to hate me since they are my primary group. I will not hate them. What I will do is try to understand them. As for now, it serves me best to stay emotionally distant from them; I will do whatever I could to help them become decent human beings.

My obsession with understanding Igbos is really rooted in my desire to understand me. As an Igbo I share many characteristics with other Igbos so in understanding the generalized Igbo I understand me.



* Shearing this journal entry with the public would probably bring out Igbos ire towards me. Some of them would probably say that I hate Igbos and make the usual noises. I know what my intention is. Those who would like to read false intentions to me are free to do so. I know me more than they know me, and if they think that they know me more than I do they are showing their group’s delusion.



* I am not seeking a fight with Igbos; I am not seeking a little negative attention from them either. My goal is to show these people how other people, including some of their members, see them and, hopefully, get them to change, where change is necessary.



* Take my perception or leave it. What you make of it is your business, not mine. You can dismiss it or see its purveyor as misguided (that is ego defenses to enable you continue behaving as you do that folk find irritating).



* As usual, I will ignore noise makers who have not even thought through what I said proffering idle criticisms; they are not worth replying to.



* On this note I end my year long interest in Igbos. When my book (A Psychological Assessment of the Generalized Igbo Character) on them comes out I expect to take additional flak from them. Any one who undertakes to speak the truth, as he sees it, not as his group tells him that it is, must be willing to take criticism; only those who tell folk what they want to hear, engage in group think, are left alone. However, we must remember that conformists to their group’s mores seldom bring about social change. Change agents must be willing to take the heat of opposition. Such is life, cest la vie.



* Finis.



* December 26, 2007.

ffs!

I think you are fighting your personal battle with God for creating you a blackman!

You are the very example of everything you wrote.
All the time and energy it took you to write all this grammar would have been useful in a more productive venture.
Surely, you need to visit a psychiatrist. You are going mad my brother. Take my word for it.

, if Igbos are not productive and cannot write books in any of the sciences(which is a lie), why write a book on them? Why not you that are much more endowed write a book on biology, chemistry, mathematics etc instead of writing a book on Igbos.

Nawa o for some pple, abeg i have better things to do with my time. Try see doctor o! Na so e dey start.

Check the expiration date on your marijuana, that might help.

all of una dey crase. una no fit read see say no be me write am na so so sentiment dey worry una, oya carry on. olodo people.

I need to catch my breath with that composition of yours. So whats your point? I will rather say its terrorizing the Igbos on the Internet. Not good!

Apology Chief Sijien, I came across that on another web board. It was written by one Ozodi Thomas Osuji.

Abeg, can someone summarize that shege for me. I am too lazy to read

lol

astronp7:

I need to catch my breath with that composition of yours. So whats your point? I will rather say its terrorizing the Igbos on the Internet. Not good!

You've turned it upside down

Since they are a very opportunistic people and know that it is wrong to treat people as a class, in stereotypes, they would be the first to say that what I did is wrong. They would even threaten law suits, to manipulate the law courts. Let them try; I have in storage the negative statements they made about Hausas, Yorubas etc to counter their self serving threats of frivolous law suits. They put other people down, and those feel insulted and angry at them and some attack them and then they turn around and play innocent victims that ugly others attack. No, sir, they stimulate the attacks on them by their arrogance and their childishness of saying denigrating things about their neighbors. Like fools they expect those they verbally abuse not to fight back, to take it and smile. As It were their foolish god gave them the right to abuse other people and for those people to accept been abused. No, those derogated tend to feel degraded and fight back.

looking through nairaland especially the culture board,would you agree with this?

I AM NOT BLACK! AND IF YOU KEEP INSISTING THAT YOU ARE BLACK THEN YOU ALL MUST BE HEADED FOR DOOM.

@ writer
Please Mr,
Make you go visit your Psychiatrist, If any Igbo man don teach you a lesson why you bi Sub-Human.
After reading your post, i understood you are a person of very low social status going through an emotional shock, I dey feel your pain. I know you are really depressed, you need medication.
Please i dey beg you no forget to go and see your Doctor.

You all have spoken well!

I just want to ask the admin to pls remove this post, it is only taking and eating up web space.

Thank you.
Okoji

Who wrote it

nwa-uwa:

i have seen this somewhere and people said it was written by a mad man that was angry he came as a black man.
poster,why waste time copying and posting such a rubbish?are you in any way related emotionally to the real writer? kolomenigitis ?

Don't be stupid. Sijien saw something curious and he brought it up here for discussion. If you have nothing to say on the issue, STFU and GTFO.

texazzpete:

Don't be stupid. Sijien saw something curious and he brought it up here for discussion. If you have nothing to say on the issue, STFU and GTFO.

Why are you being so rude? the poster did not state in the original post that he was not the author

Honestly, I felt dizzy wwhile reading this

romeo:

Why are you being so rude? the poster did not state in the original post that he was not the author

So when you saw the link to the source on the top of the article, and the poster said this

Sijien:

all of una dey crase. una no fit read see say no be me write am na so so sentiment dey worry una, oya carry on. olodo people.

it meant nothing to you, abi?

Steve Jobs was right; People don't read anymore.

texazzpete:

So when you saw the link to the source on the top of the article, and the poster said this
it meant nothing to you, abi?

Steve Jobs was right; People don't read anymore.

Link or no link the original poster should've indicated he's not the author before pasting such rubbish to avoid unnecessary attacks from others

And stop being rude young man

romeo:

Link or no link the original poster should've indicated he's not the author before pasting such rubbish to avoid unnecessary attacks from others

And stop being rude young man

u r a fool.

texazzpete:

So when you saw the link to the source on the top of the article, and the poster said this
it meant nothing to you, abi?

Steve Jobs was right; People don't read anymore.

Link or no link the original poster should've indicated he's not the author before pasting such rubbish to avoid unnecessary attacks from others

And stop being rude young man


BESIDES THAT LINK WAS NOT THERE BEFORE

Sijien:

you're a fool.

lol , why are you calling me a fool?

romeo:

Link or no link the original poster should've indicated he's not the author before pasting such rubbish to avoid unnecessary attacks from others

And stop being rude young man


BESIDES THAT LINK WAS NOT THERE BEFORE

u r not only a fool u r a liar too. d link has been there since i copeid the article. if u cant read then dont talk.

Sijien:

you're not only a fool you're a liar too. d link has been there since i copeid the article. if u can't read then don't talk.

You're a bloody idiot and an unredeemable nitwit, it's in your gene dumb asshole

when i read that article i did not see the link

the way you lot diss each other on this forum is so hilarious.


Typically Nigerian as well. . .

We are Nigerians if you don't mind

wiseguy:
You are the very example of everything you wrote.
All the time and energy it took you to write all this grammar would have been useful in a more productive venture.
Surely, you need to visit a psychiatrist. You are going mad my brother. Take my word for it.

, if Igbos are not productive and cannot write books in any of the sciences(which is a lie), why write a book on them? Why not you that are much more endowed write a book on biology, chemistry, mathematics etc instead of writing a book on Igbos.

Nawa o for some pple, abeg i have better things to do with my time. Try see doctor o! Na so e dey start.

so u read it. U sef no get time ooo. Anyways wetin d guy talk. Just gimme summary

This thread was created in 2007 yet in another thread, the same people keep saying that Biafra agitation started after Jonathan lost

Smh

Jesus Christ, did u type all this
Igbos are indeed special + interesting people.

Not a new thing