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Why Black People Should Stop Complaining about Racism by oooduancalmdown: 9:36pm On Dec 15, 2017
Racism does not exist because of skin color, it is beyond that. Everytime you hear Africans complain about racism. The truth is average European sees black people as inferior.
Of course why won't they see us as inferior race when they created the countries we live in? Nigeria, Togo, kenya were created by Europeans. Was Germany or the U.K created by a Yoruba man? Why must Nigeria exist in the first place? Some people behave like the world started the year Nigeria was created and they won't survive when it splits. They don't know that Yoruba and other ethnic groups have been existing for thousands of years before the British people came.

Why won't they consider us inferior when we use their language as our official language?

Why won't they see you as an inferior race when you bear names like Paul, Ahmed, Emmanuel? Why can't they bear our names also?

As far as all these still exists, the African man will always be seen as inferior.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. You are your own problem. You sold yourselves as slaves to the Europeans . They did not force you to do that
Re: Why Black People Should Stop Complaining about Racism by Realesha(f): 9:56pm On Dec 15, 2017
That is true,we have to solve our own problems first before we complain about racism.We forgot our norms and values while copying the cultures and life style,which are not ours.Abeg my people,stop copying others and live your life the way it is.
Re: Why Black People Should Stop Complaining about Racism by RemedyLab: 11:55pm On Dec 15, 2017
On point...
They took and destroy our food, culture,value system etc and gave us theirs.
Africa has a long way to go.
Re: Why Black People Should Stop Complaining about Racism by Duru1(m): 3:05am On Dec 16, 2017
@OP

You could not be more correct. True to the facts, all you listed qualified African as inferior human being and they act in the same manner. Africans will own racism when one does not exist. There is only one race on earth and it is human. One cannot expect respect from who you eat out of his/her pot of soup. Africans are so inferiorly constructed they cannot even figure out how to get out of an unworkable union. The inferior complexity of Africans has forced them to become sentimentally drunk. The only thing an European has to do to set African into an empty emotional spin is to pretend there is a sense of likeliness.

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Re: Why Black People Should Stop Complaining about Racism by Rossikk(m): 5:05am On Dec 16, 2017
oooduancalmdown:
Racism does not exist because of skin color, it is beyond that. Everytime you hear Africans complain about racism. The truth is average European sees black people as inferior.
Of course why won't they see us as inferior race when they created the countries we live in? Nigeria, Togo, kenya were created by Europeans. Was Germany or the U.K created by a Yoruba man? Why must Nigeria exist in the first place? Some people behave like the world started the year Nigeria was created and they won't survive when it splits. They don't know that Yoruba and other ethnic groups have been existing for thousands of years before the British people came.

Why won't they consider us inferior when we use their language as our official language?

Why won't they see you as an inferior race when you bear names like Paul, Ahmed, Emmanuel? Why can't they bear our names also?

As far as all these still exists, the African man will always be seen as inferior.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. You are your own problem. You sold yourselves as slaves to the Europeans . They did not force you to do that

First of all, kindly zip your lips, and go and study history before telling us what happened or did not happen during slavery and who forced who to sell who. What history books have you read to know what happened? Name one? Don't bother. The answer is zero. If you had BOTHERED to study before lecturing others, you would be aware of how European ships berthed on the West African coast and gave local chiefs ultimatums to supply x number of slaves or risk destruction of their kingdoms by cannon fire. You would know that this caused many wars along the coast, as villages started to invade their neighbours to procure slaves. You would know that there were laudable exceptions, such as the Benin Empire's banning of the slave trade in their empire, and the barring of Europeans from settling in the capital. You would know a lot of things that make your simplistic analysis worthless. So go and study properly before lecturing others. It is all a lot more complicated than you think.

As for Africans bearing European names and what have you, the fact is that because you have not studied your history FOR ONE MINUTE, you don't realise that much of what Europeans practice today as 'their' culture is actually derived from YOUR African history, which they learnt/appropriated/copied from in antiquity. The 'European' names Moorfield, Moorhouse, Monroe, Maurice, etc, are very common today. But did you know that they refer to white Europeans with ancient black African ancestry? A white man with the last name of Maurice or Moorfield today - and they are millions - , HAD black African ancestors. The black moors of West Africa invaded, ruled, and brought civilization and literacy to much of Europe between the 11th and 16th centuries. If you visit Spain today, you will see many ancient monuments built by those blacks, which still bear their names. In many parts of Europe you will find monuments of ancient Moorish (black) rulers. Many prominent European families have family crests which depict their black Moorish ancestors:

Examples:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=black+moor+crests&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwib-t-L1Y3YAhVIZVAKHRONCtAQ_AUICigB&biw=2560&bih=1366

In fact if you visit some European churches today, you will find images of a BLACK Mary and a BLACK Jesus - images known as the Black Madonna - Europeans prior to the Trans Atlantic slave trade, believed that the ancient Jews were black people, and depicted them as such. It was only as public outrage grew in Europe over the treatment of the black slaves -'God's people' - that images of Jews, Jesus, Mary etc, began to be whitened around the 17th century. That is why people today regard Jesus and co as being whites. Through deception and the falsification of history.

Black Madonna images:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw=2560&bih=1366&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=EJ00WvjkCpGkwALY4YJo&q=black+madonna&oq=black+madonna&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l10.63150.64018.0.64261.6.3.0.3.3.0.105.275.2j1.3.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.6.296....0.DdVoXnfIzv0

So there is an awful lot that you and others including whites and blacks, do not know about history. And those whites who feel ''superior'' to blacks are just as stupid, ignorant, dumb, and deluded, as the blacks who feel ''inferior'' to whites. Those sentiments are based 100% on IGNORANCE.

If you people spent less time lecturing others, and more time studying and learning, we'd all be better for it.

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Re: Why Black People Should Stop Complaining about Racism by Nigeriadondie: 8:54am On Dec 16, 2017
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