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CGO:
I am [b]B[/b]ritish baby!

When starting a sentence, that starting letter should always be in capital. Also, when stating your nationality, that needs to be capitalized too. It's too bad your teachers failed at teaching you proper grammar, people might have took you serious if they hadn't. You should be wary next time you try to criticize people for their grammar, especially when your own grammar need tending to.

^ Mama got some sexy lips!

This is why our great Naija has the problems it does. Our leaders are always looking out for themselves before the people.

Limewire.com has everything.

Why can't I post videos from YouTube so they will show up on Nairaland? When I post a regular link, it is not as encouraging for people to watch, like when it's already on the thread. Can someone do something?

Like this format: [YOUTUBE]H6OIE73v4Lo[/YOUTUBE]

Much appreciation

I wonder what nationality that ignorant fool "CGO" is?

I use Mozilla Firefox, and it's by far the best browser. Internet Explorer makes my computer go slow But I want to see this new "Google Chrome", I may switch browsers again.

No one watched the video? It's very interesting, and I recommend watching.

^ Do you really live in Mogadishu!

PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Aug. 30 through Sept. 1, finds Barack Obama leading the race for president with his highest share of support to date. Fully half of national registered voters now favor Obama for president, while 42% back John McCain.

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Prior to now, no more than 49% of registered voters supported Obama for president in Gallup Poll Daily tracking. Still, Obama's eight percentage point lead over McCain in the new poll falls one point shy of the lead he attained in late July after returning from a well-publicized trip to Europe and parts of the Middle East. At that time, Obama led by nine points, 49% to 40%.

McCain's 42% support is well below his 48% top support level, recorded in late April/early May. It is just slightly better than the 40% he received at several points in July, and the 41% favoring him just last week while the Democratic National Convention was underway. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.)

At 8%, the percentage of undecided voters is slightly lower than the 9% to 11% figures seen for most of August, and this is the lowest this figure has been since early June. This, in part, reflects movement of voters toward Obama over the course of the Democratic National Convention, a lead which has been sustained in subsequent days.

The field period for today's results includes Monday (Labor Day), when the scaled down Republican National Convention received limited media attention while most news coverage either focused on the hurricane hitting parts of the Gulf Coast or Monday's surprise announcement that the 17-year-old daughter of the soon to be Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, is pregnant. The Republicans hope to start up a more traditional convention schedule today in St. Paul, with the goal of capturing the same kind of media and public attention the Democrats did last week in Denver. -- Lydia Saad

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Thinking about moving to another apartment.

madamkoko:
Play dirty ? I think that her abstinence nonsense came to bite her in the face. plain and simple.

When morons like you have nothing of worth to add, why do you resort to namecalling ? No where in my post have I insulted you or referred to you as a vulture.

It's okay, once someone has called you an insult, this is a very vague hint that you have won the argument.

So what! Teenagers get pregnant everyday, so this particular topic is null in my opinion. But, the continuing cover ups by the McCain administration is what has me on the edge of my seat. I don't want any more habitual liars trying to lead this country I currently abode in.

tpia:
was this picture personally taken by you in Feb 2008? Or are you basing your assumptions on what someone said?

You're 20?

Like I said, Obama mentality reduces people to a teenage mindset.

Were you there? Short response, NO. I didn't have to be there, because any idiot (with the exception of you) can read a date of FEBRUARY 2008. And, this photo was retrieved from the Official site Government of Alaska, but suspiciously it was taken down 2 days ago. Can you at lease explain that, because you haven't been able to explain anything yet.

Yes I'm 20, do you need evidence?

tpia:
so your reason for assuming this woman wasnt pregnant is based on this picture dated when?

How old are you by the way? You sound like a teenager yourself, though Obama mentality has reduced most of his followers to that level.

and which studies are you quoting here? Does what you're saying make sense to you?



oh brother.

Just call yourself Obama zombie and lets move on.

I'm 20 years old! And this picture was dated in February, 2008 in which time she should have been 7 months pregnant If you can find any evidence supporting the fact she was pregnant, then you can critique my findings, if not, you cannot criticize me, because you can't support your argument.

Also, I say again, only White America got offended by what Revrend Wright said, because only White America gets scared when a BLACK MAN knows the truth of what's happening to his people.

Signs of pregnancy in women over 40. Why don't you read it for yourself, I'm not your teacher.

CGO:
I can see all yo[/b]u retards are having fun, [b]I'[/b]m not changing my name [b]either, am I leaving Nairaland because of a bunch of assholes I encounter here[b]?[/b] [b]B[/b]astards! [b]A[/b]nd by the way [b]I'[/b]m not Nigerian!

I corrected your atrocious spelling errors!

stillwater:
How is she a hypocrite? I guess as a teenager you never went against your mother's wishes, abi?

I shouldn't have wrote hypocrite, because her daughters actions aren't her own. bahara

Yes, I'm happy to hear that. I understand that the same can be said in the United Kingdom too.

madamkoko:
Isnt this old news ?

Plus i'm sure that if she was black or if it was one of Obama's daughters, the press will not be soo nice and it will be an entirely different issue.

I agree, you don't know how many Bitches and Hoes would be said by that fatass Rush Limbaugh.

Because the set of "Republican Values" that have been praised by many Republicans condemn sex before marriage, and Gov. Palin is a Republican and she advocates abstinence. So basically, she is a hypocrite. I don't care about her daughter having the baby, nor do I condemn it, but I think the woman is a hypocrite, and a Liar. Babygate. Look it up brudda.

And tpia, What Reverend Wright was saying was absolute TRUTH! Only White America gets offended by those comments because they know everything he has said was TRUTH. White America knows how Black Americans have been treated in the past, they feel threatened by the truth, that's the only reason why a controversy ensued. As a Nigerian in America, I applauded Reverend Wright's speech, because I know a lot about Black History, historical and modern, he had a lot of points that many Americans didn't hear, all they hear was "GOD DAMN AMERICA", which was entirely taken out of context.

tpia:
so you want to bust a vein over a picture someone posted on the web? You were there when the picture was taken, so you know exactly how when and why it happened?

so to you, a pregnant woman always has a humungous 80 lb tummy which should even hinder all movement?

geez- Obama drizzle has turned people into automatons.

There are numerous pictures with Governor Palin in them, that point out she may not have been pregnant at the time she would have been. Studies have also shown that the vast majority of women over 35 start to show signs of pregnancy BEFORE and not AFTER, but for her case, she was never shown to be pregnant. Also, this past week, all pictures of Gov. Palin from this past year have been removed from the Alaska state government site. So, if you can state a counter claim or any proof that this woman WAS pregnant at all this year, then I may consider not judging the rest of your posts as NULL.

My fellow Nairalanders, do you think this woman looks 7-months pregnant?

https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s97/uknewdaname/Palin7Months.jpg

tpia:
No one is saying people shouldnt talk about the scandal. Whats being examined is the sheer hypocrisy demonstrated by many who are lambasting Republicans for their exact same attitude.

What the hell is not to get? Also, I care less about this scandal of the daughter being pregnant, because it is minute. But, the current 4 mo. old baby that Gov. Palin has, is another thing. She did not seem pregnant at all this year, I've seen pictures from her in February, and it's obvious that she could not be pregnant. It's called babygate.

If you're trying to run for an important position like running a country, honesty should at least be a positive attribute. Dishonesty is what got America to the shitty status it has now. I don't want to see another set of liars running this country.

Also, elaborate on this statement, you don't know me or how I think, so I want to know where you got the nerve to say that.

tpia:
you just don't get it.

Typical Obama supporter- if Obama doesnt do the thinking, then nothing gets processed.

I have a hard time understanding why the Republicans are advocating people to stop talking about this scandal, but we all know that they would be the first ones to judge Obama if he had a daughter that was to get pregnant underaged. I don't even want to think of what they would say.

I'm still laughing at the fact CGO started this thread!

Black immigrants, the invisible model minority


DO African immigrants make the smartest Americans? If you were judging by statistics alone, you could find plenty of evidence to back it up.

In a side-by-side comparison of 2000 census data by sociologist John Logan at the Mumford Center, State University of New York at Albany, black immigrants from Africa average the highest educational attainment of any population group in the country, including whites and Asians.

For example, 43.8 percent of African immigrants had achieved a college degree, compared to 42.5 of Asian Americans, 28.9 percent for immigrants from Europe, Russia and Canada, and 23.1 percent of the U.S. population.

That defies the usual stereotypes of Asian Americans as the only "model minority." Yet the traditional American narrative has rendered the high academic achievements of black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean invisible, as if it were a taboo topic.

Instead, we should take a closer look. That was my reaction in 2004 after black Harvard law professor Lani Guinier and Henry Louis Gates Jr., chairman of Harvard's African-American studies department, stirred a black Harvard alumni reunion with questions about precisely where the university's new black students were coming from.

About 8 percent, or 530, of Harvard's undergraduates were black, they said, but somewhere between one-half and two-thirds of black undergraduates were "West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples."

If we take a closer look, I said at the time, I bet we'll find that Harvard's not alone. With all of the ink and airwaves that have been devoted to immigration these days, black immigrants remain remarkably invisible. Yet their success has long followed the patterns of other high-achieving immigrants.

As one immigrant Jamaican friend once told me, "I'm too busy working two jobs to worry about the white man's racism."

Now comes a new study that finds a consistent pattern of Ivy League and other elite colleges and universities boosting their black student populations by enrolling large numbers of immigrants from Africa, the West Indies and Latin America.

Immigrants, who make up 13 percent of the nation's college-age black population, account for more than a quarter of black students at Ivy League and other elite universities, according to the study of 28 selective schools published recently in the American Journal of Education. The proportion of immigrants was higher at private institutions, 28.8 percent, than at the public ones, where they comprised 23.1 percent of enrollment.

Are elite schools padding their racial diversity numbers with black immigrants who do not have a history of American slavery in their families? This development calls into question whether affirmative action admission policies are fulfilling their original intent.

But as Walter Benn Michaels, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, writes in his book "The Trouble With Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality," the original intent of affirmative action morphed back in the 1970s from reparations for slavery into the promotion of a broader virtue: "diversity." Since then, it no longer seems to matter how many of your college's black students had slavery in their families. It only matters that they are black.

That said, I don't begrudge black immigrants or any other high- achieving immigrants for their impressive achievements. I applaud them. I encourage more native-born American children, particularly my own child, to take similar advantage of this country's hard-won opportunities.

But I also think we need to revisit the meaning of "diversity." Unlike our current system of feel-good game-playing, we need to focus on the deeper question of how education can be improved and opportunities opened up to those who were left behind by the civil rights revolution.

We tend to look too often at every aspect of diversity except economic class. Yet, the dream of upward mobility is an essential part of how we Americans like to think of ourselves.

It's also why a lot more people are trying to get into this country than trying to get out.

From Oakland Tribune

For one, I am one Black immigrant who is living up to the Model Minority statement. I am a student at California State University Dominguez Hills, in my Sophomore year. I take great pride, that we Africans are being viewed as the most educated group in America. Are there any other Nigerians or Africans on that matter, who are living up to this article in the U.S. or anywhere else in the world? Discussion will be greatly appreciated.

ROTFLMFAO @ the thread starter!

Because there are so many different languages and dialects in this land of ours, English is the language that brings us all to a common understanding. I know English is not out native language, and I hate the fact that the colonial language has stuck with us, but it is that way all across the world.

All across out great continent, you will find people speaking English, French, Spanish, Afrikaans, and Arabic. Those languages were all brought by colonialism and foreigners not of Africa far ago. So those languages bridge the gaps between a lot of us, because of the so many different tribe languages.

No, you are dead. Nigeria is already going through re-birth economic-wise, and I don't need to be there to realize that. Maybe not all states have felt the wealth yet, but certainly Lagos and Abuja and Port Harcourt are all basically getting a rebirth! All the roads that are being paved, and all the new buildings, and new classrooms too. If you don't beleive me I'll gladly post pictures and links.

We also have almost 2 million barrels of oil being pumped a day, with new money flowing in daily. I can agree that we still have a problem with corruption, but we are starting to slowly get better. The rebels in Rivers kind of knocked us down to the No. 2 spot in top oil producers in Africa, because Angola passed us in terms of oil, but next year, we should be pumping out 3 million barrels a day.

I can agree that some of our newer generations are have some problems, but nowhere near dying!

I wish Nigeria would have a nationalized oil company like Angola. Sonangol, soon too be one of the worlds largest oil compaines, is Angolan established, Angolan owned, and they are in charge of all the oil in Angola.

Also, the profits of the oil is almost entirely going into Angolan pockets, and the nation of Angola as we speak is drastically becoming very rich. I wish someone in Naija will be smart enough to one day do what the Angolans are doing.

Just drive there. How you think most of the Zimbabweans get there?