Sagamite: Mentally-ill fuuktard, you put Mandela in the same bracket as Ghaddafi?
Yes crackhead - Gadaffi provided financial and military aid to the ANC - did you know that crackhead? Also, Gadaffi was one of the first people that Mandela visited when he was released from jail by your idols- did you know that?
Sagamite: Delusions grandeur of a mentally-ill fuuktard.
Esteemed seat of learning my arsse.
Trading is such a huge accomplishment in the eyes of these psycho. Yes, Iya Alhaja that sells gold in my Ajegunle quarters is such a sign of civilisation.
Illiterate, trade is what built the wealth of the very European countries that you idolise. Without the transatlantic TRADE in slaves there would be no industrial revolution - get that into your crack headed skull
carefreewannabe: Who said they were fighting each other for the fun of it? Can you read properly? Or has Patience Jonathan taught you how to read?
OF COURSE they were fighting each other to gain control, that goes without saying, BUT it does not change the fact that they are not blaming others for their shortcomings like you do. Instead of living in the Middle Ages, you should FINALLY move through the Age of Enlightenment and beyond it.
People like you are the reason why there is no progress.
Playing the victim is comfortable. Taking responsibility requires hard work.
People like you make ashamed to be black.
You give whitey a pass for every atrocity he perpetrates and continues to perpetrate against us in our own continent. Move through the age of enlightenment indeed! explain to me how you make progess when your entire continent is udner US occupation with drone bases and troops stationed in different parts of the continent.
explain how you make progress when well meaning African leaders who refuse to sign up to the starvation economic policies of the IMF end up with a bullet in their head, yuou are a porch monkey and a shameless coon, when the revolution in Africa begins there will be no hiding place for coons like you.
carefreewannabe: Have I said that Europe and America did not profit from slave trade?
Do I have to be white to decide NOT to join the bandwagon of those who like to play a victim?
I am tired of those racist threads. I live in Germany and I can tell you that Germans are very critical of colonialism and teach their kids the injustice that was done to African countries in the past but not only to African countries, also to other European countries. This is not about racism anymore. MOVE ON! And understand that the biggest problem Nigeria has today are her leaders.
How long will you keep whining about colonialism?
Do you think only African nations suffered during this era?
dumbass did you know the Germans perpetrated one of the worst genocides against black people in what is today known as Namibia - ever heard of the Herero massacre?
the germans exterminated thousands of these indigenous people who refused to relinquish their own land to german racists - I bet they don't teach that in their schools over there while you are sucking whitey's anus try and get that into your thick skull
carefreewannabe: Who said they were fighting each other for the fun of it? Can you read properly? Or has Patience Jonathan taught you how to read? OF COURSE they were fighting each other to gain control, that goes without saying, BUT it does not change the fact that they are not blaming others for their shortcomings like you do. Instead of living in the Middle Ages, you should FINALLY move through the Age of Enlightenment and beyond it. People like you are the reason why there is no progress. Playing the victim is comfortable. Taking responsibility requires hard work.
what shortcomings are you referring to? the fact that we fought an unequal fight against a racist oppressor who had the advantage of gunpowder over us - pray tell, what do you suggest our ancestors should have done?
Europeans have been fighting each other for decades. They have been attacking each other, killing each other and taking land from each other. They have a bloody history which ended in two world wars. They have overcome this stage and eventually made peace with the past. They cooperate now!
So stop whining and learn from those nations who were hit the hardest during WW I and WW II and MOVED ON to live in the now instead of playing the victim card.
You will see NO progress when you continue whining like you do.
You are a bloody idio.t - they were not fighting amongst themselves for the fun of it , they were fighting for control over the world's territory and resources and Africa and its resources was the main area they were fighting over. Africa remains under the control of Europe that's why Africans speak European languages and are ashamed to speak their own languages, you have no clue, you're continent is still under occupation. what is USafricom doing in Africa, why does the US have drone bases all over the continent - you are so dumb.
carefreewannabe: They were so advanced that the white evil did what he wanted with them.
Ignoramus do you think the invasion of the African continent happened on one day?
Invasion was a long drawn out affair with many African tribes fighting off the European invasion for years. the subsequent scramble for Africa was successful because the most powerful European nations worked together as a team to annex individual African tribes thereby making it virtually impossible for Africans to win against such a coalition of power. They also had the added advantage of gunpowder.
Yeah, and while Europeans were making use of these resources, your forefathers were worshipping babalawos in the bush.
Don't blame others that your forefathers were useless and didn't know what to do with what mother nature gave them.
Stop playing the victim card, it won't help you make any progress.
you are obviously very ignorant and have zero knowledge of your own history, Africans had an advanced civilisation at the time that Europe began to invade different parts of the continent, Timbucktu was an esteemed seat of learning well before the transatlantic slave trade began, the empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai had already established advanced trading posts and were well developed so what the fck are you talking about?
The Europeans wealth is built on our mineral resources, our cheap labour and the mass murder of our people, so every time you post pics singing praises of the ill gotten wealth of Europe and the poverty of Africa just remember how this wealth was built, remember that many people who look like you and I had to die in order for this wealth to be built. Remember that genocide, wholesale rap.e, torture, amputations and other atrocities were committed against Africans en masse who resisted European enslavement in order for Europe to build the schools, hospitals, residential areas, roads and other infrastructure that you worship today.
Sagamite: Oh! I don't 'understand' the international capitalist structure?
Baabu understand? (Baabu means no understanding in Hausa)
So it is because of the international capitalist structure that virtually every worker in every profession we have is useless or mediocre?
So it is because of the international capitalist structure that we don't have 24 hours light?
So it is because of the international capitalist structure that we vote for useless cretins as leaders?
So it is because of the international capitalist structure that we don't have good roads?
So it is because of the international capitalist structure that we could not even an airline?
So it is because of the international capitalist structure that NITEL failed?
So it is because of the international capitalist structure that we could not read and write our language until the white man came?
Continue pointing fingers at everyone else on Earth but yourselves. Exactly the mentally I was talking about and why the continent is a failure and vastly a shithole.
you are a crack headed im.becile.
igbo2011 and other intellectuals on this thread stop responding to this dunce he is too s.tupid to even begin to understand the root causes of black oppression. this is why I no longer reply his posts.
LordaGuru: Pls, everyone that read this should come up with at least one solution on how to unite the black nation. It's not impossible, China did it (China fought more wantonly bloody tribal and inter-tribal wars on disastrous scale than any other nation before they came to their sense and realize that they are one) and we all can see that. This very Year, China's economy was declared to have overtook that of USA to become the worlds No 1 strongest Economy.
Thank you for posting this much needed discussion.
Have you read any of the late Marcus Garvey's works? Here is an excerpt from one of his works:
African Fundamentalism by Marcus Garvey
A Racial Hierarchy and Empire for Negroes.
Negro’s Faith Must Be Confidence in Self. His Creed: One God. One Aim. One Destiny
The time has come for the Negro to forget and cast behind him his hero worship and adoration of other races, and to start out immediately to create and emulate heroes of his own. We must canonize our own saints, create our own martyrs, and elevate to positions of fame and honor black men and women who have made their distinct contributions to our racial history. Sojourner Truth is worthy of the place of sainthood alongside of Joan of Arc: Crispus Attucks and George William Gordon are entitled to the halo of martyrdom with no less glory than that of the martyrs of any other race. Toussaint L'Ouverture's brilliancy as a soldier and statesman outshone that of a Cromwell, Napoleon and Washington; hence, he is entitled to the highest place as a hero among men.
[b]Africa has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and in peace, whose luster and bravery outshine that of any other people. Then why not see good and perfection in ourselves? We must inspire a literature and promulgate a doctrine of our own without any apologies to the powers that be. The right is ours and God's. Let contrary sentiment and cross opinions go to the winds. Opposition to race independence is the weapon of the enemy to defeat the hopes of an unfortunate people. We are entitled to our own opinions and not obligated to or bound by the opinions of others. If others laugh at you, return the laughter to them; if they mimic you, return the compliment with equal force. They have no more right to dishonor, disrespect and disregard your feeling and manhood than you have in dealing with them. Honor them when they honor you, disrespect and disregard them when they vilely treat you. Their arrogance is but skin deep and an assumption that has no foundation in morals or in law. They have sprung from the same family tree of obscurity as we have; their history is as rude in its primitiveness as ours; their ancestors ran wild and naked, lived in caves and in branches of trees, like monkeys, as ours; they made human sacrifices, ate the flesh of their own dead and the raw meat of the wild beast for centuries even as they accuse us of doing; their cannibalism was more prolonged than ours; when we were embracing the arts and sciences on the banks of the Nile their ancestors were still drinking human blood and eating out of the skulls of their conquered dead; when our civilization had reached the noonday of progress they were still running naked and sleeping in holes and caves with rats, bats and other insects and animals. After we had already fathomed the mystery of the stars and reduced the heavenly constellations to minute and regular calculus they were still backwoodsmen, living in ignorance and blatant darkness.
The world today is indebted to us for the benefits of civilization. They stole our arts and sciences from Africa. Then why should we be ashamed of ourselves? Their modern improvements are but duplicates of a grander civilization that we reflected thousands of years ago, without the advantage of what is buried and still hidden, to be resurrected and reintroduced by the intelligence of our generation and our posterity. Why should we be discouraged because somebody laughs at us today? [/b]
Who can tell what tomorrow will bring forth? Did they not laugh at Moses, Christ and Mohammed? Was there not a Carthage, Greece and Rome? We see and have changes every day, so pray, work, be steadfast and be not dismayed. As the Jew is held together by his religion, the white races by the assumption and the unwritten law of superiority, and the Mongolian by the precious tie of blood, so likewise the Negro must be united in one grand racial hierarchy. Our union must know no clime, boundary or nationality. Like the great Church of Rome, Negroes the world over must practice one faith, that of Confidence in themselves, with One God! One Aim! One Destiny! Let no religious scruples, no political machination divide us, but let us hold together under all climes and in every country, making among ourselves a Racial Empire upon which "the sun shall never set."
Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths. Let no influence but your own rouse you in time of peace and time of war; hear all, but attend only to that which concerns you. Your allegiance shall be to your God, then to your family, race and country. Remember always that the Jew in his political and economic urge is always first a Jew; the white man is first a white man under all circumstances, and you can do no less than being first and always a Negro, and then all else will take care of itself. Let no one innoculate you with evil doctrines to suit their own conveniences. There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself, "Charity begins at home." First, to thyself be true, and "thou canst not then be false to any man." God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. There is no height to which we cannot climb by using the active intelligence of our own minds.
Mind creates, and as much as we desire in Nature we can have through the creation of our own minds. Being at present the scientifically weaker race, you shall treat others only as they treat you; but in your homes and everywhere possible you must teach the higher development of science to your children; and be sure to develop a race of scientists par excellence, for in science and religion lies our only hope to withstand the evil designs of modern materialism. Never forget your God. Remember, we live, work and pray for the establishing of a great and binding racial hierarchy, the founding of a racial empire whose only natural, spiritual and political limits shall be God and "Africa, at home and abroad." New York, the Negro World, June 6, 1925, Front Page Editorial
The black race can still rule the world, I am a strong believer in the teachings of the Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
Garvey states that:
“[T]he Negro peoples of the world should concentrate upon the object of building up for themselves a great nation in Africa. . . [of] creating for ourselves [there] a political superstate . . . a government, a nation of our own, strong enough to lend protection to the members of our race scattered all over the world, and to compel the respect of the nations and races of the earth. . . .”
For me the above statement summarises what we need to be focusing on. Failure to pay heed to that statement means that we will remain slaves to the white race forever.
Nigerian entertainers have no self respect and have very low self esteem. Forever copying western entertainers.
Take note from Shabba Ranks who refused to be insulted by BET who refused to market and distribute his music in the same way that they do with their own artistes, they tried to demean and degrade dancehall music but Shabba refused to accept their demeaning terms . If it had been a Nigerian entertainer they would have been so grateful to be given a 2 second slot on BET:
Jamaican entertainers are so outstanding and unique when it comes to music and yet western music labels try to degrade and pigeon hole their music, Nigerian entertainers need to carve out their own niche and stop kow towing to the US.
My heart goes out to the poor girl, she was under intense pressure from her mother to do well at school and I think she must have suffered a nervous breakdown due to all of the pressure piled on her.
If anyone is to blame its the mother, stop pushing your children to fufil dreams that you failed to achieve yourself, leave them to be who they want to be or else you will get rebellion in the form of suicide, hatred or even attack on you the parent. The mother needs to look inward instead of blaming outsiders, the young girl was gifted but couldn't cope with the huge expectations heaped on her shoulders.
igbo2011: Cap28 thank you for showing me about Dr. Chinweizu Ibekwe a couple years ago. Reading his work changed my life for ever. Here is a great quote and essay he has: "The Black race will be exterminated if it does not build a black superpower in Africa by the end of this century."
I'm reposting this very interesting clip that you posted a while back on NL.
In the clip he is being interviewed by an African American radio station and he discusses in great detail white supremacy and the effect it is having and continues to have on Africans.
I kept listening to it over and over again. I respect this man so much.
ROSSIKE: I continue to be impressed by your intelligence and insight. People like mmark are still in stage 1 of understanding. You're in stage 7. Don't worry....soon he'll catch up... or maybe his children.
BlackTechnology: There is a difference between military technological know how and excessive military spending
Nigeria is vulnerable to Western backed internal or external invasion because we lack basic military technological know how as a result of not giving room to our intellectuals in our higher institutions to participate in weapons research and development just the way other powerful nations do
Imagine GEJ winning election next year and Buhari's supporters decide to take up arms against the government. What chance do the government has if US decides to launch a naval blockade in order to prevent the government from importing weapons through the sea the way Biafra was blockade from importing weapons through the sea.
Exactly!
As a matter of fact the whole of Africa is already under occupation by USafricom they are monitoring and dictating what is going on in almost all African nations. Its already too late for Nigeria to stop what has already been put in motion. The US also have drone bases dotted all over Africa.
Missy89: Wait a min. You said a strong military is needed to prevent exploitation and at the same time you are against high military spending. Give examples of what u see as "reckless spending"
Keep in mind, building military capabilities is like opening a Pandora's box. once u start modernizing, you have to keep up and defense companies will want to stay afloat, hence, more wars. That is the inevitable circle of every MIC
What is your opinion on Russia exploitation after the cold war even thou they had a relatively strong military?
A strong military is needed to prevent exploitation but what the US is doing now is excessive because they are borrowing money in order to stay ahead of every other nation in the world - money that could be used for things like health care and education is channelled into defence and the only beneficiaries are the defence contractors, arms manufacturers and the private mercenary companies like Blackwater that have started springing up in the US and Europe.
I think Russia was weakened politically after the cold war but only temporarily, hence the entry of US backed puppets like Yeltsin.