₦airaland Forum

*Kails*:
here we go with the bullshyt comparisons.
sir, the best american food are cajon and creole..both having caribbean influence.
what does that tell you?

sir, aside from them most Americans do not use the same seasonings we do.
Your idea of seasoning consists of larry seasoned salt, black pepper and white salt with some tobasco sauce

please...do not compare. Soul food is tasty but caribbean food is delicious AND good for you.

LOL. I was just bullishing with you, but I've got something to say in response to your comment. Granted we don't use a load and a half of seasoning in our food as Caribbeans do, because we enjoy more of the natural flavors of the foods we cook. I've noticed that we use a lot more vegetables in our foods than Caribbeans or Africans do. Vegetables give the food a nice NATURAL balanced flavor than a crap load of seasonings do. Every time I go to the Caribbean and go to a local, mom and pop like eatery to get a meal, they look at me like I'm nuts when I asked for a garden salad.

*Kails*:
Oh yeah? Well if you like that you should check out the black cultural foods thread here in the culture section

Soul Food is the best. I like Jamaican, but it aint got ish on Soul Food, which if done right.. could make you want to do a jig when you taste it.

somalia9: black unity my a55......i hope somalia can leave african union and kick out those hiv aids carrying monkeys soldiers in somalia.

Never going to happen, ace. They will continue to pore in by the hundreds of thousands yearly, and will eventually overtake your nation by means of sheer numbers, wealth and means of outside influence. They will eventually subjugate you to second class in your own native nation. Resistance is futile, the Bantu invasion is in full force and there is absolutely nothing you can or any other Somali can do about it.

*Kails*:
lol epic fail.
blyss!! i told u to post them in the thread (link above)

but that's though. it looks good!!

Ooops!! Do me a favor and copy and paste those pics into the thread you wanted them in. Thanks for your services in advance.

souldust: @darapture, if thats what you want then its ok by me. You made it possible for us to come over to the US to study in your universities so asking this from us is not too much.

But we africans are religiously tied to our land. So asking us to give up a part would be something so difficult to do. But like i said, its ok by me. You have every right to come back to africa.

Well our ancestor's religious and physical connection to the lands they came from were randomly and ruthlessly stripped from them without any form of compensation. So it is only right that the AU members agree to compensate this loss to them, by giving up territory to us their descendants.

[img]http://greenacres.com/images/uploads/general/greens%20recipe[/img]
[img]http://3.bp..com/-ZJFdLuUwWZM/UBb5Ta10_LI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/6vz-JT4JxS4/s1600/Baked+Macaroni+and+Cheese+recipe-+done!.jpg[/img]
[img]https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3DJoohN3dJhAnNt9qDkC8Il42_Uu2HoU3-fXHS8KVhfSKllQv[/img]
https://hostedmedia.reimanpub.com/TOH/Images/Photos/37/exps1203_TH1604C17.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1181/606787360_7d2f7951c5.jpg
https://womenmovethesoul.com/wp-content/uploads/corn-bread.jpg
https://www.perdue.com/recipes/recipeimages/Cajun%20Oven%20Fried%20Chicken_1.jpg
https://media.pegasusnews.com/pegasus/img/photos/2009/11/22/cat_t520.jpg
https://cbsop.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/simply-mashed-potatoes.jpg

MsDarkSkin: very good advice.


@blyss why are you so negative?!

I'm not being negative, I'm being sensible.

TeeYLovesMe: loveis0320: My boyfriend is Nigerian. And I met him here in the states. He's a college student. When we first begin to be friends, I was dating another Nigerian, and he was much older. There are so many things you should know. First of all....this guy that you speak of is definitely seeking paperwork/greencard/ect. Know that in order to love someone, you must get to know that person. My boyfriend and I have been "dating" since May of last year. Its almost been a year. I have made him jump through hoops to prove how much he really loves me to insure to myself that he is not just after a greencard. He is my bestfriend. He's teaching me the Yoruba language and everything. I love everything about African culture. Its safe to say that he has changed my life in a "good" way.
I know many nigerians. And you will be amazed at the type of things I have found out about some of them. Not all Nigerian guys are seeking paperwork. Some are just living their lives here and tryna have a better life than they can have at home. I know Nigerian's that have wives back home, and they seek out women to marry them to get their paperwork. The guy I was dating before me and my boyfriend started dating...I found out he had a different last name that he was going by. And he was muslim. I typed it in to Facebook, and it pulled up ONE of his TWO wives. Found out he had TWO wives and a total of 4 kids. And was seeking two more wives. CRAZY!! I have friends that have married and later found out that their Nigerian husband had a wife and a family back in Africa. You definitely need to do your research. Because although there are some good Nigerian guys out there, there are some that are not.

I'm sorry, but you women are crazy to even consider these dudes. That's just how I see it.

loveis0320: Hello everyone, Currently I am talking to a Nigerian man who lives in the states. He seems really nice and caring, but since this is my first time talking to someone that is not an American black man I wanted some advice. First I was a little hesitant to continue to talk to him, but I am still communicating. Right now he is in Nigeria and will be back to the states at the end of this month. He keep saying how impressed he is of me and how he loves me so much. He keeps saying that God brought me into his life and he will never let me go. But that was after I busted him for talking to other woman, but yet telling me he is not. Of course that is know different than American black men.

With all the comments I have read the majority seem to think it would be wise to not get involved with a Nigerian man, but then you can say that about many other race of men. Love is about taking a chance with someone and since I am not familiar with their culture. I want to learn as much as I can about him and his family to make a clear and prayerful decision as to if I should continue in the relationship or not. When I was going to stop talking to him after I busted him, he called me and begged me not to stop talking to him and not to leave him. He texted and called like crazy professing his love for me and that he knows that God brought me into life and that I am to be his wife.

Are all Nigerians the type of men that profess love to a woman they have never met. We have been talking for about a week going on two and he has all but proposed, wants me to meet his mother and come to his house in SC. This is new for me and would love comment.

AAAAAAND.... another one.

onila: looking for a smart handsome carribean man

the one who wont make me a baby mama

Damn, you must be planning on staying a virgin for the rest of your life if that's what you plan on waiting on to swing your way.

MsDarkSkin: @kid, i know.

im just saying we shouldn't try to force the issue "just because we are black".

study this thread if you think otherwise :
https://www.nairaland.com/1185790/thoughts-african-americans-moving-back

i think if anything black americans should learn to take control of our economic situations
while in america: start business, invest in our business and promote self reliance.

the big "uprooting in the name of repatriation" wish some of our forefathers had is unrealistic however i feel cross-atlantic trading with each other would be the best option.

i am happy for Angola's progress though, believe it but I don't think moving there as a people, is necessary.

anyway..that's just my opinion.

again..i gotta bounce.
we can continue this later babes (talking about haiti).

Hold up, you aren't gonna be flip-flopping your tail on here like a fish out of water around here all day everyday. Let's set this record strait right now, are you, or are you not claiming AA? First you claim you're hard core Jamaican-American to the fullest, then you come with some ol we, us and I suff in this thread and others, as if you on claim with the top of the food chain African-Americans. So what's it gonna be, you game or are you lame?

KidStranglehold: LOL! I can tell....

He should know Caribbean people ALWAYS had AA's back throughout history. Hell I would even say Caribbeans like Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans and Haitians are AA's closets allies. Its true.

LOL @ had our back; I won't comment on that one much further. As for being our closes Allie; it isn't like there was much else choice but for them to be so.

MsDarkSkin: [size=28pt]caribbean pride!![/size]

https://content.clickbooq.com/595/photos/30c279fd6b.jpg

https://graphicleftovers.com/images/member/20293/Caribbean-Flags.jpg

[img]http://3.bp..com/_UhzSbahOEp4/TKVPo8QQH4I/AAAAAAAABdE/nVEub8QXPoU/s1600/repparada.jpg[/img]

https://media-cache-ec2.pinterest.com/192x/b4/ef/46/b4ef460d064473d45124c5f93fc83c7f.jpg

https://static3.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/a_scale_large/1300-2/photos/1345394592-annual-caribbean-carnival-parades-through-nottingham_1397252.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZMZGd91s0

(*looks @ blyss *)

Don't look at me sis. You ain't showing me ish. Caribbean style is for festivals, AA style if common place, dare I say standard. You'all are like our close lil cousins. You get on our nerves sometimes, but we love you like family. Africans on the other hand are looked at like distant cousins; we recognize you, but we just don't know you too well to really care to be that close to you. Not all of us see things that way, but it's pretty much the norm.

CAMEROONPRIDE: *yawns*

Wondering why a proud American did a DNA test

I did a DNA test for simply one reason, and one reason only, and that was to confirm if my studies showing that my African lineage is Igbo were most likely fact or not, and the test did it's job. It confirmed it 100%.

MsDarkSkin:

um no!!
Caribbean till I DIE!! you hear? TILL.I.DIE!!

I am LUCKY BLESSED to be part of the most diverse people on the planet.
So much flavor!! From our music, to our history, and our culture.
AA is cool too. AAs also have a rich history 4sure but my Caribbean blood is fyah!!

Ppl come to America for the PAPERS...(money..economic status) but they go to the caribbean/latin america FOR THE LIFESTYLE!!

#Don'tH8!!

Damn ungrateful leaches!!










JK, I think.

KidStranglehold: You say your African ancestors were indentured servants...Do you have any proof of this? Just curious and sounds very interesting.

I HAD proof, via a very extensive roots like genealogical study I did on my family starting back in junior high and lasting through my freshman year in college. Surprisingly, very good records were kept on my family lines through the plantation days via slave records and such, and both my mother's and father's family also kept pretty good records of their own about their family history.

so between hitting the libraries,collecting all the family knowledge, and making a few personal visits to small town local historians down in the Carolina's and Alabama, I managed to trace my African roots all the way back to 1621 for my father's family and 1623 for my mother's; further digging unmasked that they were most likely Igbo, and came upon Dutch ships as indentured servants to the original Virginian Colony at which time was pretty much just made up of Jamestown and Williamsport areas. Later genealogical testing confirmed this Igbo link, along with a pretty consistent showing of Igbo lineage through out both side of the families history as found out via plantation records.

All of my years of work I put into this project burnt up at my parents house a few years ago, during an electrical fire they had. I was pissed as all hell. I'm currently in the process of attempting to regenerate it all back, but have a family and career responsibilities now, I just don't have nearly as much time to do it all.

kandiikane: Bybss did you do a test to see whether you're cherokee because many people who have claimed to be related to a full blooded winds from the crying wolf grandma were let down.

Yes, but that was more so to confirm my African ancestry, because it's already well known in my family that we're of significant German, Scottish and Cherokee descent. My mother's grandmother died when she was about ten, and she has many pics of her and her grandmother together. It's very evident that she was native American, and if you seen a pic of my great aunts, and grandmother, you'd think they were natives themselves. It's pretty evident in my mother and her siblings as well. But to answer your question, yes, the Cherokee lineage was also confirmed in the DNA test. In all, I'm only slightly over 50% Black-African in lineage (54%, but it's all via generational mixture on both my mothers and fathers side spanning some 12 generations here in North America).

Mrs.Chima:
Nigga...you ain't no half breed.....you are a poly breed! What did you do draw out the bucket your hertiages?

Never claimed to be a half breed. I said, as is typical with most of us AA, I am generationally mixed. My mixtures are Black-African (Igbo), German (Bavarian region), Scottish and Cherokee. My African and European lineages both go back to the early 1600's in this land. So I'm in all ways possible as hardcore, full blooded of an AA or Black-American as we come.

I didn't know you were Haitian, since you always say that you're simply American. Most of you usually hyphenate the American with your families nation of origin (Haitian-American)for instance. Are you fully Haitian or are mixed with AA?

linearity: Why NK dey do us April fool for dis their Missile launch na? Na becos we dey April month ni? I can't wait for April to pass so that we go hear better word from world leaders wey dey serious.

Since the first time wen dem start to dey talk about dis nuclear kini, I dey come outside everyday to look sky if man fit catch a little glimpse and take photo of the much talked about mushroom cloud but each time na April fool na him I dey get..

If dem no get the nuclear kini, make dem slow down oh...Na so Saddam open him big mount say him get WMD, so tay US take that corner-corner go do dem 'shock and awe' come see as Baghdad light up like xmas tree for nite.

Make we all pray say 1.) Make a Republic no win next white House in US and/or 2.)Make US economic boom well well and/or 3.) Make NK shut up ....or else...There is nothing that boost struggling US economy like war oh or a bolstering Republican President that want to talk tough and try to beat Obama's accomplishment on foreign polices..

What hell is that gibberish you're talking?

KidStranglehold: Being a half breed means you have the best of both worlds.

Full breeds are out of style.

The AA half trumps all others. You are blessed to have it in you. Cherish it to the fullest.

MsDarkSkin: lol whatever negro.

im a half breed and proud of it!!

Well you should be proud and better yet, LUCKY to have the rich, historical, creative AA genes flowing through your body. You feel that electrifying tingle?

Mrs.Chima:
Nigga you don't even know where u come from talking anout half breeds.

I'm about as "African-American" or "Black-American" as we come. My ancestry in this land goes back to the freaking early 1600's on both my mother's and father's side, and that's just counting the African portion; my Cherokee lineage obviously goes back much further, and yes.. I actually do have Cherokee mixture. My mother's grandmother (my great granny) was full blooded. I also have German and Scottish mixture. So as typical with most of us, I'm your typical generationaly mixed black American with lineage going the way back to pre-slavery in this land (indentured servitude).

eyenCalabar: Very important is manner of approach, we value this so much. The way you approach an elder here for instance is quite different from what you guys do over there. When you are coming, you must leave aside that "Hi" sh!t you guys do there in the name of greetings. You don't commonize these simple things else you won't be taken important and that may be the beginning of failure to your quest. We value greetings so much here, so take your time to greet my people. And I think you would first touch the Yoruba land, there, you lie down on the ground to greet. I don't really know about Hausa and Igbo if you'll be going there, but if you'll get to Calabar; ours is simple, just bow your head while greeting with two hands. Just take it that we are all bigger than you so humble yourself because we know humility is not really in you guys blood but you'll have to try. Finally, don't come with a gun because you guys like guns so much and don't also think of "Bleep!ng" anybody here 'cos we don't tolerate insult. Wish you success in your quest and safe journey to Nigeria.

TO the OP, don't pay this person who wrote this foolishness any mind.

maclatunji: Questions For Married Men

Hello, I have a new question and it is for you husbands of so many beautiful women out there- all women are beautiful.

The Question: Do you usually go home after closing from the office or wherever it is you work?

If you answered No- Why?

If you answered Yes- What does your home look or feel like when you get there every night?

Let us have your responses.

Thank you.

I pick my kids up from preschool after work every weekday; we go home and spend some time interacting with each other, I feed them and prep them for bed, and soon after the wife gets home and we all spend a lil family time together, and then the kids go to bed and the wife and I eat our dinner, talk about our day a little more, watch a little TV. Then I do a bit of after work-work, prepare myself for bed, and work the next day, then I go to sleep.

Married life is pretty routine for most people.

UncleJJ: 1. China will support NK and most likely Russia.

2. While the US is busy laying plans and sending drones, propagating wild stories on CNN and BBC, Palestine will be glad to send a few more missles into Isreal and Iran will be happy to suppo a fellow muslim nation.

3. You honestly dont think the US will wage a war without spending a dime. Imagine, the incentives it will have to offer vietnam, japan and the phillipines.

Anymore questions ?

Russia will not support NK. Their relationship with the US is much more important to them than the elimination of NK.

eggheaders: that can't be contested that the usa gat more war toys.but the Koreans also claimed to have missiles capable of getting into us territories.so if there claims are true then the war is currently 50/50 chance of any of them winning.

LOL. It's not 50/50. It'll take at least 10 Nukes to take down the US mainland, and it's not certain that NK even has up to 5, wile the US has many thousands. The US also has the most advance missile defense network in the world, with major elements of it stationed in Guam, Hawaii, Alaska and Canada, which means that any nuke fired at the US over the Pacific and or the North Pole will have to first evade a vast outer ring network of missile tracking and targeting systems with ranges of thousands of miles each. Now if they somehow managed to get past that, which will be extremely difficult with like only a 20% chance of success, they'll then have to get through the second ring of tracking systems in which is even more densely structured.

Now even if, though extremely unlikely, North Korea had a delivery system in which could carry a nuke to the mainland of the US, they'll have no more than one of those systems available.

That means they'll get just one shot to fire that one nuke off and have it evade the US's massive missal defense system, a feet in which in all reality would take a barrage of nuclear strikes to obtain success of even getting just a few nukes to penetrate. Once that one chance is spent, the game is over. The US will then return with a massive barrage strike of their own, and there is no nation on earth that has as advance of a defense against such than the US does, and especially not NK.