₦airaland Forum

bemeruca:
My point is still that education matters, history matters, racism matters, colonialism matters, institutions matter.

But internal choices also matter. Leadership matters. Culture matters. Accountability matters. Family structure matters. Greed and selfishness matter.

You are not going to understand or believe how much hope I have in you.

I am just waiting for the day you understand that internal choices are informed through good education that does not just fill individuals with facts, but teaches them how to use their minds.

cococandy:
You haven’t said a bad thing in this write up. I’ll give you that.


But it seems quite hypocritical given you’re rooting for the people who are making the terrible choices you speak of.

And you yourself can’t brag that you do the right thing when personal interest is at stake. That’s why it’s difficult to take the moral grandstanding you guys perform against African Americans seriously.

Unfortunately, he is conflating the education of an individual with the collective education of the whole. And he thinks having degrees means a person is educated.

He says Emefiele is educated, but it is rather obvious that Emefiele is very ignorant indeed. An educated person would know that his reputation is more valuable than gold.

dominique:
It's so baffling how nobody sees nothing wrong with a man leaving his house dirty. He must have kept the environment dirty in expectation that his girlfriend is coming to clean it up. Total pig! If anybody dodged a bullet, it's the lady. Women! Add value to yourselves so men won't see you as maids to clean up their mess.

I was waiting for this, though this girl too seems cheap.

usebog:
I don't like spirituality at all.

What exactly does spirituality mean to you?

usebog:
I've been ignoring the voices thinking it is my own brain playing tricks on me but it is not.

It is your brain making your mind communicate with you, and it shouldn't be ignored.

In fact, you should get a notebook and write down everything you hear the voices say.

When we read that the likes of Eve was spoken to by a serpent, and that prophet who was spoken to by a donkey, and Jesus being tempted by a satan on a mountain, and Mohammed being delivered the Quran by an angel Gabriel etc, we are being informed of experiences like yours.

LordReed:
Unfortunately, it is linked to mental illness and all the stigma that comes with it.

And unfortunately, that link is not always right, and is often the mind trying to communicate with the person, but the person often can not decipher what the mind is saying because they can't understand their mind.

usebog, what are you hearing the voices say?

LordReed:
Bro read what I wrote abeg.

It's not about him reading what you wrote, my Lord. He is simply misrepresenting what he read.

raumdeuter:
Families staying together statistically is a good thing and brings better outcomes

Black Families used to stay together until the govt incentivized breakup of the family

If your own thought is to advocate for slavery, then good for you, this is not the first time you will be advocating for irrational and weird things

You've been called dishonest enough times already, so I am not surprised in the least that you'd project your opinion on to others.

bemeruca:
Why do you want slavery back?

Do I want slavery back, or is this just you being "maths is racist" as usual?

raumdeuter:
If that is your solution then state it clearly

What is the relationship between slavery and family staying together

You are the one implying it as a solution, and you need to tell me since you are the one who claimed families stayed together during slavery, while mine is, at masta's whim.

Walsh needs to be sworn in quick so he can cut rates and maga!

The long-term bond market has completely blown off the Fed’s rate cuts. The more the Fed cut, the higher the 30-year yield rose.

https://wolfstreet.com/2026/05/20/bond-bloodbath-worsens-on-inflation-lax-fed-and-flood-of-new-debt-mortgage-rates-hit-6-75/

raumdeuter:
The worst period was during slavery and they stayed married more than now

I guess we should bring slavery back then. Though I doubt many would like to return to a period when the slaves wives and daughters were impregnated by masta for stock to be sold.

tctrills:
One way we are working to change things oga is by taking responsibility and not looking for others to blame. You can try it.

Reminds me of my favourite song.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv5xonFSC4c?si=PA1sbez-ITTMBI6y

While I agree we should not just be blaming the past, it is essential that one understands where we came from to know how to get where we want to.

And on that note, i blame my eyes for being tired and not letting me read further. I'll let them rest a bit and see if we want to.

tctrills:
No, you are wrong but then, let me use your analogy.
Choices we make at puberty affects our adulthood.
So if a girl chooses to become pregnant and become a mother of 4 in her teen years, would you be surprised if she doesn't complete school?
So what choices are we are a race making now in our puberty?

How about choices made before you were born, do they not affect the entire existence of a person?

Most girls do not choose to become pregnant in their teens, and those who do are misdirected, most often by a preying perverted adult who has no intention to stay and nurture the kids he spawns. We got one here intending to impregnate 5 teens, because, apparently, it's legal.

raumdeuter:
60yrs ago and beyond at the worst times for American blacks they stayed with their women ....

Aha. 60 years ago is your "worst times for American blacks"?

That's interesting, as 60 years ago is when American blacks were fighting for their emancipatory rights that new black migrants are now benefitting from.

raumdeuter:
How many generations does it take to keep the family together? Even during the worst period for blacks, their families stayed together

I think the worst period for blacks in USA was when master could wake up one morning and split families to sell to different buyers to pay off debt.

When was your worst period for blacks?

DeepSight:
I made that statement just to show that the environment has consequences because the way the other side were going here, it would seem that they believed not even skin color could be the effect of the environment. They speak as though it has zero impact.

I was just being provocative. I know you meant loads more than that since you said it already.

GracieX3:
Lol.... i remember how they didn't even answer or criticise the wealth that white south Africans gathered from apartheid- majority of the farmland and big businesses....

They'd expect the black South African to compete equally with those who have already cornered the financial capital.

I reckon, if South Africa were USA, some here would be telling us white libtards are lying to the black people that foreigners are taking their women and their jobs, and the solution is dubula.

DeepSight:
Preponderantly. One cannot over estimate for example, the amount of innovations WW2 ushered in. We have that war to thank for even the internet we are using.

So, competition for resources is innovative. And with Africa being so lush and vast and not so condensed, we didn't need to innovate till later than more densely packed Europeans had to.

I guess we have our own war against insecurity, and 'Tinubu' increasing the cost of resources, so Nigeria will innovate and be great one day.

My, 'Tinubu', is to hedge against claims that the increase in cost of resource is not only his fault.

Vote for Obi!

raumdeuter:
Concrete thing 1. STay with the woman you impregnate

Ben. Hear!

DeepSight:
Very good that you admit those statements are true.

It's not hard to decipher. It's as simple as saying that someone in hot weather will have darker skin and someone in cold weather will have lighter skin.

And should therefore be poorer, and unaccountable, and irresponsible?

Not that I'm suggesting that black Americans and people are unaccountable and irresponsible, note.

raumdeuter:
Accountability and personal responsibility is....

There! Make welfare recipients accountable and personally responsible.

But I can't see how black Americans can be accountable and responsible for the consequences of slavery and continued discrimination they have faced.

Or is it your claim that slavery and continued discrimination are not amongst the things that keep them down?

If so, you should watch Sarah's Oil.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcEOKJm_aLY?si=UL0RRp1glrSe3buc

raumdeuter:
While they are true
Why has environment and necessity not worked in our favor in Africa to create inventions and prosperous lifestyle?

Those who live in the land of plenty in Eden do not need to sweat for their daily bread or "create inventions and prosperous lifestyle". They must first eat the forbidden fruit of knowledge to be cursed to sweat from their own brow for their own food.

Damn! I must sound like I'm advocating for the elimination of welfare. I'm not. It just needs to be conditional. Like bad grades of children at school could mean less money, but I wouldn't want that neither least the kids starve.

bemeruca:
Buhari failed because his anti-corruption war was selective, political, incompetent, and did not produce better governance.

Sounds pretty much like dump's doge failure too.

DeepSight:
You are not thinking deeply.

You talk about culture as though it came from nowhere.

Look, people who live in a place where the land will freeze for half the year will necessarily invent methods of both heat and preservation and will be forced into an organized lifestyle and efficient methods as a matter of survival as opposed to people with fertile land and clement weather all year round.

The weather curse theory, or rather, the theory of not having to sweat for ones daily bread because it can so easily be plucked off a tree.

It kind of supports those who blame social payments to the poor, when I think of it. Because, if they are given free money they wouldn't need to sweat to eat. But then, we mustn't let them starve because they are poor and rely on social cheques that make them lazy too.

Not all welfare receivers are black or lazy, note! Maga is full of such people too.

benalvino3:
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My point is simpler: if a country had some working public systems decades ago, then a serious government should maintain and improve them, not allow them to decay.

You are far too young and refuse to learn to know that the "some working public systems decades ago" was so little and only in some places that the need to build working public systems where they did not exist would leave very little to maintain or improve the few where they did exist, so decay they would.

Obanikoro was a village in the 80s. I used to look off my rear balcony and feel I had travelled to the Orolu Kingdom that had no light and no running water at the time. The front balcony showed a different view however, and was closer to GRA in Ikeja.

We had running water way up on the third floor in the mid 70s. But providing running water to the rest of the village in the 80s meant the pressure wasn't enough to get water to the third floor. Ketu just about 7 miles away, had no water pipes at the time, and I'd be impressed if it had any now. As for light, the one transformer that served the entire Obanikoro was insufficient in the mid 70s, and when it blew there was no light for weeks sometimes.

Schools weren't enough neither, so many went to afternoon schools expecting to be taught by teachers who knew the school inspectors only visit in the mornings and who were already tired from teaching the day students.

Hospitals! The judicial system! All very "some", but I can not keep educating you how very "some" "working public systems" were in Nigeria post independence when you can so easily educate yourself that the colonisers were not colonising you for your benefit or to develop you as you seem to believe, but for their own benefit and profit, and when we kicked them out, they literally placed a cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of our future development.

The average price of “Grade A Large Eggs” fell by 4.2% for the month and by 56% year-over-year, to $2.25 per dozen, by according to CPI data.

https://wolfstreet.com/2026/05/18/food-inflation-in-america-by-product-it-boils-down-to-a-sharp-re-acceleration-on-top-of-already-very-high-prices/

He must be talking about some special sort of egg. Ones laid by golden hens maybe, because real regular eggs must be $1.99!

It seems like Atiku's ego wants to be king and not a king maker. And he might end up being neither.

SeeWahala:
My dear aunty Budaa it is a given that Nigeria and Nigerians will definitely smile again

The time for us to take back our country and livelihoods from the snake's is NOW and we have someone to sit in the diving seat of the vehicle we are all travellers in 🤗

We are all ready to make this Nigeria that of which you once dreamt about don't allow them make you lose hope by their changing the anthem 😏

Even they themselves cannot sing it

Only ourselves can make ourselves lose hope in ourselves, just as only ourselves can make Nigeria that of which we dream about.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_LmRcr8Mm4?si=7jAzJ_TdK9NW3txq

Are they marching against institutional racism?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3d2ryyz0jzo

raumdeuter:
America is back when the world top countries respect American leadership an conduct business in a way thats fir to America, Not when they take advantage of America

We used to have presidents going to beg all over the world not anymore

I think America went to beg China to buy soybeans and maize. And I feel China would respond with. "Okay, if you let us sell electric motors in your America. And no, we don't need your US technology because we can very well make our own".

raumdeuter:
How is it your business how people choose to live their lives, you sound like a voy3ur

It isn't my business. But a thief makes it my business if they were to come in a thread I'm engaged in and quote me and condemn stealing just as this person does. Or would you not expect it to be ones business here if you are were against abortions and informed us you abort? If kitten grabber dump is in charge of pdfs, should one trust what he says?

How one lives one's life is far more important than the words one utters on Nairaland, raum. In fact, I'd go further and say how one utters what one utters is far more important than what one says, because, "By your fruits" are your inwards known, for those who care about inward that is, which I do.

P. S. I ignore your "sound like" because you sound like you need the help of an audiologist.

tctrills:
People like Deepsight and his gang think that the black solution should come from a change in behaviour of the whites. But that's a wrong, lazy and irresponsible way to view the world.

Can blacks be great? Yes but only when they take responsibility and start making the necessary changes.

Yes there have been historic injustice done to blacks but I am more impressed by the historic victories given to blacks.

Slavery was ended , segregation was ended, apartheid was ended. The only question now is what do we do with these victories?

This, I can not say is insensible. And is in fact why I feel immigration into America is a good thing for all, because Africans migrating to America have not been fooled by the American education system that is designed to promote a social world view that is incorrect.

Basically, the Black American is taught to believe they will die if they eat fruits of knowledge, and so they don't dare eat it, the ten commandments is on the wall of their class, while the African will pluck that fruit and eat it and only it because there's no ten commandments on the wall of our classes.

Anyway, just want to semi clarify your "his gang".