demmy:

You're a foolish and ignorant backward individual who need to read history ASAP or die because you're of no use.


What kind of history do they teach in Nigerian schools
nowadays besides mansa musa and his useless trip to mecca

Real-Mccoy:


The IQ of most individuals on nairaland and some other low life online nigeria's blog is borderline between rhetard.... Same people will become senators, governors and president....LMAO

warrior101: i believe in Venus cuz i have a friend from central america who look and spanish but she named are first daughter sade cuz she feels some african tie in her... her has always loved and dated nigeria(african) men since i knew her... she even claim to be from africa just for me or others to like her more... just an example...

samkoro: Last time I checked,Venus was the name of a cream and Serena was a Brand of Toyota

afam4eva: It's good they cleared the air just like NAS did when he came to Nigeria. I don't know what it is with Nigerians and claiming people. How can a nation with over 150million people be looking for more citizens when it has not taken care of the people it has.

cashmentor: Well, i love this earth, i'd have love to be here forever, but i'm from Mars!

Rubbbbish.... Who'd want to be identified with the roots of Terrorists, thieves, scammers and Drug Lords after all? No one wants to be related to a Mad Man.... We don hear una, ok, take your money and Go back to The Land of Milk and Hardknocks! Why didn't your mum name your late sis (may her soul rest in peace) a South African or Ghanian name, of all countries, she Choosed a Nigerian Name and u telling me about Loving Africa, i don't know your roots, but, with your own excuse, something tells me you Gals are Lying and hiding something!
I still Love you Girls though, keep making me Proud!

afam4eva: It's good they cleared the air just like NAS did when he came to Nigeria. I don't know what it is with Nigerians and claiming people. How can a nation with over 150million people be looking for more citizens when it has not taken care of the people it has.

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Faced With Much Racism from White America and its Media –Including New York Times --

Venus and Serena Williams Can Still Be Victorious.

By ODIMUMBA KWAMDELA (J. Ashton Brathwaite)

Like so many societal ills that are showered with society’s hypocrisy of great change for the better, it can be said of the game of professional tennis also, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” This is especially so as it pertains to the way white Americans and their media view the “intrusion” into the game by Venus and Serena Williams, two African-Americans, and demonstrating their ability to be dominant. So much resentment to their presence by whites have been shown to beg the question, which in the last few year has been viewed as a problem of greater concern to some white Americans, the possibility of a terrorist attack on some major American cities or that of the Williams sisters returning to the tennis arena and making as strong an impact as they were doing not long ago, or as Serena did recently at the 2007 Australian Open after being away for sometime due to injuries, as is still the case with Venus? And what if their success rate equals that of the past?

It is common knowledge internationally regarding the obsession of white Americans with American athletes coming out on top in all sporting events in which they compete. It is manifested in their endless boisterous ranting of “USA, USA, USA, USA,” and their constant waving of the Stars and Stripes in miniature to giant sizes. Sometimes it seems overdone to the point of being seen more an act of embarrassment than an act of patriotism. But their reaction to Venus and Serena on the way to victory – being victorious – is so conspicuously different. It must be said that their reaction to other African-Americans victorious in other sports such as track and field, basketball, baseball and football does not come so ugly. But it must be said also that African-Americans were once banned from these sports on the mainstream level, and when finally they were grudgingly allowed to, a precious few , one or two at a time, they were racially humiliated in the worst way. The fact that over the years they worked their way up to being the dominant force in these sports obviously means they cannot now be mistreated or wished away. In the game of tennis, however, the idea of it being a white game still strongly persists. Before the Williams sisters only two other African-Americans playing it made their presence felt: Althea Gibson in the 1950s and Arthur Ashe in the 1970s. They were not exactly welcomed, either. Maybe because they did not seem to be as threatening as the Williams sisters. Other African-Americans who entered the arena were not regarded as being able to change the complexion of the game at the top to the point badly denting the idea of this almost-lone game dominated by whites going through a dramatic change racially as did others. Undoubtedly, the Williams Sisters seemed most capable of paving the road to such a transformation.

Admittedly, white Americans tended not to consistently boo the Williams sisters when they were dominating white players from any white nations. Their silence, though, could be likened to that expected in a graveyard at midnight. But their hypocrisy would be shamelessly exposed whenever any white competitor seemed to be getting the upper hand of the Williams sisters, for they would react with great euphoria.

There was a time when Venus and Serena were subjected to frequent bad-mouthing from white competitors who thought it was somehow detrimental to them that both sisters were competing in the same tournaments. If questioned about their comments, they would ease themselves out of the situation and shift the blame to Daddy Williams, who did the unexplainable and coached his two daughters from nothing to success outside of the regular system, on public tennis courts, claiming he was too much of a showoff, too arrogant. Thinking of their trials, is it not a cause to wonder if their often absence from competition might be attributed to this? Not belittling their courage – for Venus especially seems to have a lot of this – but it does take tremendous amounts of courage in the face of constant adversity to hold one’s ground like Muhammad Ali – or the first Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson many years earlier – elected to do.

It is obviously not a case of a loss of desire among white Americans for the prevailing of American domination but that it would be much more satisfying to them if white competitors would be the ones responsible for bringing about this domination. For it would then make it so much easier to associate with America that responsibility generated by the likes of the Williams Sisters.

Once the proven excellent ability of the Williams sisters made that transformation up from the category of good potential, the white media became a part of this hypocrisy. Articles regularly portrayed them as two Black girls on whom Mother Nature had bestowed extra physical powers to which fragile white girls would inevitably capitulate; they were said to be overly muscular. The same attitudes directed at (Australian) Aborigine tennis player Evonne Goolagong in the 1970s when she dominated any favored white competitor, white spectators and their media not perceiving then, either, of a lowly Aborigine girl with this required ability; hence exhibited their intolerance for such. Goolagon was no more physically imposing than some of her white competitors.

There are those among the competitors of the Williams sisters who are physically bigger. At six feet tall, Venus is not only shorter than some, but also slimmer. American Lindsay Davenport stands two inches over six feet. France’s Mauresma about the same. The same is true of some of the Russian competitors. Sharapova, for instance, is taller than all. Serena is a few inches under six feet. She is a few pounds heavier than some, but to judge her honestly for being overweight or for possessing the very curvaceous and voluptuous body many females wished they possessed, and even more men salivate over, she would be judged by the latter.

OlowoTee: i beg to differ. The name yetunde is 'peculiar', you don't just name your child yetunde or iyabo(similar) without some good reasons. It's got some deeply rooted meaning attached. #Especially, lostofGranny, MIL etc.

Real-Mccoy:

You are been racist by calling them slaves. Must you take every headlines on Nairaland serious? Don't be too sensitive over some dumb questions from a secondary school journalist. In advanced countries, journalist do background research on an individual before interviewing them. Their answer to the Naija made journalist was polite and on point. I am glad such question was not thrown on the likes of Jamie Foxx.
Take a chill pill, nigerians deserve what ever insult they get because they are sometimes silly.

cap28: i have a lot of respect for their dad though, he moulded them and made them champions in a game that had been dominated by whites for almost 100 years:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye27S839pfM

demmy:

You're a foolish and ignorant backward individual who need to read history ASAP or die because you're of no use.




What kind of history do they teach in Nigerian schools nowadays besides mansa musa and his useless trip to mecca

NovusHomo: ''

Only to be sidelined by their mother when the money started flowing. One reason they are not Nigerians.

cap28:

how do you mean?

eminex:

i disagree wit u. i ve interacted wit several ppl elsewere in oda african countries who ve similar names 2 nigerians. check togo or benin, they share same names as d western nigeria. check niger republic, same names wit northern nigeria. check cameroon, same names wit south-east nigera. for example i met som1 frm SA whose name is biola buh she has no linkage wit nigeria. so lets not try 2 associate any1 who has a name similar 2 9ja until d person says so himself. na 9ja b d only african country wey constitute d black americans?

solomonkane:

Afam I owe you one carton of your favorite liquor brand for this comment. Over true dey worry the statement. Check them out; Morris Chestnut (Grade F actor), Angela Basset (Has Been), Louis Farakhan (Noise Maker) e.t.c. Anybody abusing the Williams sisters should be checked in Yaba Right (ARO). So what if their late sister was named Yetunde; last I checked Benin, Cuba, Brazil and other nations had people with names similar to Nigerian ones. Nigerians like over familiarity, we are always looking for famous people to attach to like leeches.

obadiah777: HE WAS A WHITE MAN. THEY ARE ALL THE SAME. THEY HIDE UNDER DIFFERENT COUNTRIES BUT THEIR BIBLICAL NAME IS EDOMITES.