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boldking:
As I watched the Argentina and Iceland match today and
wondered why there were no black players in the Argentinean
team when other South American teams had black or biracial
players, I remembered a conversation I had last year.
It was while I was on a cruise from Florida to the Grand
Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.
Between an Argentinean doctor and myself, who had walked
up to me during lunch one day and struck up a conversation
with me.
There was no hiding the attraction.
We had bonded much to the chagrin of her three Argentinean
friends.
On the deck of the ship that day, she kept going on about how
she loves black men and looks forward to traveling so she can
meet them.
I asked her.
"Don't you have black people in Argentina?"
She said with a matter of fact candour.
"No. Long time ago, after slavery, we killed them all."
I was taken aback.
She smiled.
And continued.
"Very bad. I am ashamed of my people. It was very systematic
though. Very well thought out. First they forced most of the
men to fight for Argentina against Paraguay. They knowingly
sent them into battles that were poorly planned so that the
Paraguay army will do for them what they couldn't themselves
do. Kill the blacks. Most of them died there. The remaining of
them they forced to live in this province were there was a
plague. A disease that the government refused to curb so that
it can also do for them what they couldn't do. Kill the blacks.
The refused to set up hospitals, clinics, adequate shelter, food
outlets, nothing. They created the best environment for the
disease to thrive. It killed the rest of the men that had
survived the war. The darker you are, the higher the chance
they will send you to that place to live or to the war to die. The
lighter skinned women they forced them to sleep with the
white men, so that their children are biracial, then they forced
the children when they grew older to sleep with white men, so
that the blackness of the skin of the children became whiter
and whiter until there was no longer any visibly black people
seen. It was so bad that blacks fled to Chile, Peru, Bolivia,
Brazil and even Paraquay where they were better treated even
though not as well as they should be treated as human beings
deserving full equality. Atleast those ones did not want to kill
them and accepted to give them protection and a means of
livelihood. As a matter of fact in Chile, there was a city called
Arica where Black people were so accepted and respected
that in the 1700s two black free man, one called Anzuréz were
elected mayors. But the white colonial masters from Spain
came six months later and nullified the elections, they were
afraid of other cities giving black people too many rights. But
the blacks who had found succour did not complain, they sent
word for others to flee Argentina and come join them. Afterall
what was cancelled elections compared to certain death?"
Then she went silent as though trying to replay the magnitude
of the crime in her mind again. Then she said it in a sombre
tone in order to drive it home to me.
"The ones the Argentineans did not kill through war or
disease, and rape and impregnate, fled the country and
ultimately we got rid of the blacks."
I listened in rising sorrow.
She continued academically.
"So although they abolished slavery in 1815 in Argentina, it
continued until 1853, after that the main preoccupation of the
leaders was how to get rid of the black slaves and their
descendants. Our president who ruled us from 1868 to 1874,
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, wrote in his diary in 1848, this
was long before he became president and slavery ended that -
'In the United States… 4 million are black, and within 20 years
will be 8 million…. What is to be done with such blacks, hated
by the white race?' - It shows that he was already thinking of
how to eliminate black people before he became President
and when he became President, he succeeded."
"Didn't the world say anything?"
"No. They ignored it. I am sure most of them wanted to do the
same thing but failed. At that time, they admired them. I
remember when I will go to Brazil as a child, my father's friend
will say in disgust as he looked at the black Brazilians - we
should have had your guts and finished them off. All of them.
Make Brazil white just like Argentina."
"And the Europeans?"
She laughed.
"It is an open secret, just like King Leopold and his genocide
in Congo. No one talks about it, but they know about it.
Atleast the older ones do. The younger ones not so much.
Why do you think all the Nazis ran to Argentina after World
War 2?"
I was silent.
She continued.
"Because it was the perfect place for the most evil racists in
history to live."
Then she looked out to the infinitely blue sea around the ship
and sighed audibly before she continued.
" Sadly, to some extent, it still is welcoming and accomodating
of racial hatred. We took the Tango from the African slaves
and made it our own. In Argentina, not one person will tell you
the true history of that dance. They don't want to associate it
with Africa. In fact if you ask them about black people in
Argentina they will tell you that there has never been black
people in Argentina. They teach them in schools. They rewrite
the history. They make it all white. And as I said it is all
underneath the surface. They never come out and say we hate
black people. Argentina is only for whites or anything like that.
They have just fixed the country to only be for white people."
I looked at her friends, Argentineans like her, who were
lounging on the chairs on the deck, clad in their tiny bikinis,
drinking pina coladas and smiling.
She followed my gaze and then turned to me.
"Don't be fooled by all those smiles, scratch the surface and
you will see that all they want is for you to disappear."
Toronto.

Just2endowed2:
Now a days, Banks are not allowed to fold up. To brink sanity and protection of deposit funds, Govt buy the liabilities of the bank or simply buy the bank and appoint new directors till books are balance and in turn, the govt sell the bank again.

Era of Bank failure has ended and we are not in the 90s again.

So no pannick

Its just that CBN had made banks to be so lazy that they now depends on deduction from customers saving account to make huge profit and they have abandon the critical sector that need money.

majekdom2:
Thing is many of us “guys” are blinded by love and don’t seem to see the reality these days. And lessons as this are the only way we can learn. Don’t date or marry woman who is waiting for you to provide or set her up after marriage. Don’t date or marry a woman who cannot get a job by herself, don’t date or marry a woman who does not understand what life is, who thinks life is a funfare. A woman said the other day that men should date women who earn as much as they do. If you are still hustling, date a hustler like yourself. Don’t date a liability. Liabilities remain liabilities forever. I am not sure they can become assets. Marry an asset! They will help you go through the struggles of life easily!

rs172:
So so pathetic, why why why are people so greedy like this..


I hope this country becomes better to live in this our generation..

Corruption has really eaten deep into the system.

Ximenez:
Love is different from what we see around these days, it might come when you are poor or when you are rich, but the problem is that it might only come once and if you don't take that chance you might never get it again.


These days what we have is people writing down specs and going about looking for people who fits into those specs and for most girls it revolves around money.

That's why marriages don't last these days. You see people paying 2m for bride price, 5m for wedding and another 2m for honeymoon ending the marriage after few months with a text message of 4Naira, because they've missed their ideal partners in the past because they didn't meet/see them in the position they envisaged then.

meobizy:
The problem stems from our education. Right from the 80s till the mid noughties people were taught [by teachers and parents] to hide whatever knowledge they possess and use it to lord over their peers. Schools awarded positions to students, encouraging the do wells while making jest of those slow to catch up. Like broken goods, those found deficient in learning became teachers and fellow students' butt of jokes. We grew into adults who believe one has to stand alone and share nothing, especially useful information, with anyone else.

I grew up, did my university outside the country only for me to find out sharing knowledge was the way of life there. In our class the Nigerians always struggled because we had to unlearn hiding our work from others. We had to learn working in teams. Every individual loss meant a whole group loss. Comparing the two systems I understood why they have achieved more than the black man.

I hear of late the Nigerian school system has changed for the better. I hear results are now done on an individual basis and not a competition amongst peers. I hear the foundation of teamwork is being taught nowadays. It means our children, their children and the ones after are going to create a better country for themselves. If they can't achieve it at least they'll build an enviable capitalist environment.

johnydon22:
Today, technology have given us a weapon powerful enough to end life as we know it by just the flick of a button, I doubt religion have ever being that powerful or threatening throughout history.

Let us be objective, anything can be misused and abused given the wrong application, technology and religion are suitable examples.

boolet:
Of course you went to school. In most developed countries, High school education is enough to make the most decent of living and tertiary education is a choice. The only reason why tertiary education is so popular in Nigeria is because it has become a very mighty destraction used by those in the echelons of power from how they have failed the youth.

Majority of those who go to tertiary institutions in Nigeria end up settling for less, majority.

b3llo:
This is getting much day by day. What is happening na? I hope this people are not depressed.

dominique:
Seriously what's our excuse? Even war-torn countries boast of better facilities. Our leaders ought to be ashamed of themselves

NOC1:
Why do you guys go through peoples phone?
There is no way you will check someone's phone without Seeing one thing.
I have never for one day checked my girlfriend phone, I know she is beautiful and young chykers and admirers will be all over her in one way or the other, If you truly want to own her then please make haste and pay her bride price.
For the fact you guys are not legaly married, you don't have a right over her life style.

JERRY1925:
buhari is not ma man..I am Yoruba ...but I understand how the public sector works in Nigeria...no matter who u bring to power in Nigeria.. we will complain ...that's a sure odd.

we are diabolic people... we dont bliv in fair game..we depend so much on spiritual power.
have u ever sat down to think how many diabolic persons visit Mr President everyday...I work in a small public company.. and I know what some persons go tru...somebody will go visit his pastor/habalist just to come talk to u, to get a positive answer whether it benefits the country or not..
sometimes, u would have signed it before remembering that's wrong..
Nigeria itself,its people need a change or heart.
we are our own problem.

deanoffaculty:
Thumb up! This is how to be a celebrity.....not trekking from Lagos to Abuja because of one Daura man.