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raumdeuter:Many of them are only just finding out there's anything like the Arab Slave Trade today. There are intellectuals who are actually very good in their fields I had to point out these things to, and they were surprised. Most people aren't invested in research beyond their academic fields. I guess it's true what they say about hiding things from Black men by inscribing them in books. And today, attention span has dropped lower than 8 seconds – lower than a cuttlefish. A cûttlefish can focus more than many humans today. It's why most wait for summaries of world issues by CNN with an agenda hence they are teleprogrammed. The Charlie Kirk debate here is proof most people don't do their own research. Its like me seeing killing in Nigeria, In my home state to people I know but I am more upset about killing in Ukraine, Iran, Gaza and ChileRemember that viral image of Apostle Suleiman kneeling in front of a large screen projection of the map of Ukraine in early 2022 on the altar to pray while never doing same for Nigeria? Yeah. |
When the Europeans properly colonialised Western Africa and established governments, they chose their slave business partners (the kings, chiefs and warlords) for indirect rule. Then they chose warrant chiefs from amongst them. The kids of the warrant chiefs got scholarships and juicy positions. Those were the most powerful men of the 1800s and early 1900s. That bloodline of warrant chiefs became the politicians of the 1940s and 1960s. I know one of the descendants whose whole bloodline when retraced were judges and senators. And when you go farther, warrant chiefs. Go find out how warrant chiefs were chosen – it wasn't for everyone. I can't even mention him because I was asked not to to avoid needless rancour. Tomorrow, one of their descendants will demand reparations from the West when the generational wealth and prestige he enjoys date back to slavery. Have you bothered to do the genealogical tracing of these people or you're just reactionary like you always do, thinking this is one of those fleeting issues debated on Nairaland? You need to have your héad checked. |
When you are ready, you will debate without emotions. When Africans of Sudan and SubSaharan Africa (us) were selling our kin to the Arabs in the 7th Century and earlier, Europeans were no part of it – it was wholly your forebears selling their kin to the Arabs. Are you going to blame the Europeans too? Heck! And the trade continued vis-a-vis the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. If you can prove the Europeans were a part of it then and your forebears weren't the ones selling their kind, I will deactivate this minute, never to return to Nairaland . The Europeans were even victims of the Arab Slave Trade too. For centuries, your forebears sold their kin and the Europeans arrived in the 15th and 16th Century on the West African coast. And what did your fathers do when they craved the mirrors the Europeans had? They thought exchanging humans for these items were a fair bargain. One day, you will learn to spend hours daily reading far, wide and wild because you crave knowledge which isn't promoted conventionally. When that day comes, you'll be free of the shackles of waiting for your thought leaders to shape your opinions. When you are ready, put your account on the line like I have put mine and let's debate with links and pictures to booth. I am the one who has done the documentary on such things, mentioning exact places. I'm the one stating our forebears are responsible because the evidence of such still lie as monuments in my hometown, in Badagry, in Guinea, in Ghana... Still waiting for you to put your account on the line. Read! Research! Be informed! |
raumdeuter:He can't. None can. Even supposed intellectuals on other platforms are being exposed for being teleprogrammed when debating the issue, revealing they haven't done their research well enough. Screenshots and links are humbling them. He thinks this is Facebook which is populated by happy-go-lucky, short-attention-spanned 'cruise-seekers' with the intellectual depth of a sheet of paper where they 'kikiki' and 'hahaha', and post 'vawulense' to everything like bots. |
Google "When did the Arab slave trade begin in Africa?". You'll see it became really organized in the 7th Century – which is 1000 years before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade of the 17th Century really kicked off. The most defining part of the Arab Slave Trade was, it was the Africans of Sudan and the lower parts (in West Africa) who agreed to sell slaves to the Arabs. Remember: The Arabs and Europeans have a long history and invaded each other earlier before our contact with the Europeans. The Arabs were in Spain and Portugal too. Now blame America and Europe for the Arab Slave Trade you began 1400 years ago. Keep depending on CNN and Woke thought leaders. If you know what it is good and don't want to keep embarassing yourself on such issues, research and read wide, independent of the dictates of Mainstream Media platforms. |
Neymar1095:If you had half the intelligence of a cûttlefish, you will debate the issue instead of trying to gaslight. Yes, your forebears and mine captured their kin and kith, and exchanged them for mirrors and umbrellas. You introduced slavery to the Europeans and enticed them with it. The Europeans saw slaves with your forebears (not servants but slaves captured in wars and slave raids) and you offered them to the Europeans like groundnuts and palmwine to guests. Ask yourself why the Europeans didn't replicate the slave trade in Asia – Asians, for most parts, didn't sell their kin for umbrellas. The closest were Indian indentured workers, and those weren't slaves sold off after being captured by Indians on the subcontinent. You can only gaslight the uninformed. Emotions without a logical base mean nothing to me. |
In pre-colonial Nigeria, for example, it was the slave-raiding parties funded by the coastal Ijaws, Ibibio-Efiks, Itsekiris, Aworis and others who liased with their closest neighbours to go raid the hinterlands to capture people in farms and forests as sláves. The Europeans never did so. It was the Africans who owned slave barns from present-day Akwa Ibom to Rivers to Lagos (Ogun) to Ghana. It was the African chiefs and slave masters who kept their fellow Africans in sub-water-level barns, and built and policed the Bridges of No Return. The Europeans simply bought 'products' your forebears sold to them. You want to blame the cocåine traffickers for the drûg trade but absolve the cocá of blame? Worse even, the children of the côca farmers and producers want to blame their fathers' clients for the destructive drûg trade. Study who the slave trade really operated and you'll never ask for reparations again. |
Ellexy:Let me shock you with something: Africans who had slaves were some of those who offered to give slaves to the Europeans in exchange for gifts as shinny as the pictures Okpa uploads here. Also, the Europeans saw how the Arabs (who are neighbours – remember the Iberian Peninsula where Portugal and Spain are - has a long history with Arabs and even a mixed population) were trading in African slavés unhindered and partook of it. It's like seeing people scoop fuel from a tanked unhindered so you scoop even though it is deådly and immoral yet years later everyone wants to label only you as the fuel bunkerer. That's unfair. It was the same Europeans who pushed to abolish the slave trade. I have mentioned here a number of times that I hail from a place right on the Atlantic Ocean; and my hometown is the single most important place in Nigeria's pre-colonial and colonial history. I have also posted about having to digitize the history and other information of my people so the research led me to slave barns (which people are now visiting) and tracing genealogies of slave masters who also became warrant chiefs for the colonial government. If there's any reparation to be done, governments of the South South (places right on the coast) have to pay too. The forebears of people indigenous to these areas are just as guilty of slave trade. But we want to gaslight the Europeans and Americans to extort money for something our forebears benefited from. One person higher-up in the government was arguing same with me in a WhatsApp group earlier in the month, insisting the West must pay so I dug into my archives to drop pictures I foraged and snapped myself in 2020 while working on the digital portal for the history and more of my hometown, and even tagged the curator, a female historian, of the institution set up for these things who was quiet in the WhatsApp group. We are just as guilty of slave trade, yet we played no part to end it. The West we blame ended what we engaged in long before them. |
Ellexy:The man ran on MAGA and nationalism since he threw his hat in the ring in 2014. His whole schtick is "America First". I wish we had a GCFR who puts Nigeria first. Who doesn't build a railway to Niger Republic while building none in the South East, or Ajaokuta Steel Mill is dysfunctional. I wish we had a President who demands Ghana which gets gas from and owes us at least treat Nigerians resident in Ghana with respect. I wish we had a President who demands ECOWAS sit up like Trump demands of NATO, and Nigeria gets to benefit as much as the whole ECOWAS benefits from Nigeria's socio-economy, and raises the economic wand whenever Senegal or Togo mistreats a Nigerian; or even bûlly them to apologize because mistreating a Nigerian in your country is an insult to Nigeria. I wish.. |
Ellexy, why is it surprising? Trump has always been blunt about some of the reasons for his transnational border incursions. He was blunt about Venezuela; about being deposing Maduro for aligning with the East and the U.S. interest in their oil. He's been blunt about his reasons for wanting to take over Cuba; including Greenland. He's been blunt about controlling shipping lines, oil trade and taking down Iran as the spearhead of Middle Eastern crises. Also, taking out Iran's leadership for making two attempts on his life as while he was running for POTUS 47 in 2024. The honesty is why I like Trump. I like a honest crook – not perfect, but you know where you stand with him. Unlike Obama and others on the Left who would virtue-signal with "bringing democracy" and other such ruses. At least with Trump you know why he's doing it and he never hides his intentions. Everyone steeped in global sociopolitics already know Trump has been vocal about these things for years. |
raumdeuter:True. I've been doing analyses of state government websites/web apps for years and that deliberate leak of revenue to such unstately channels you explained sure is responsible for why, asides Lagos and recently in Abia, Nigerian state governments shy away from centralizing their revenue collection systems or semblances of such. I looked at the coordinated system https://texas.gov has for everything revenue collection and documentation vetting, and I even built a quasi-prototype of some sorts but there's the Nigerian peculiarity you explained which makes state governments refuse to key in. Its like the challenge of using automation and making human redundant, while things might be efficient bt you have people who are idle. You know what they say about an idle hand, and especially when jobless and without moneyThis is already happening. Folks on X are complaining daily. |
raumdeuter:This! Submitted a pitch to digitize the state IRS years ago. It was kicked against like I committed a crime. Recently, I worked on a pitch deck for someone who wanted to propose amping revenue generation for vehicular parks to a Commissioner and some MDA bosses. Days later, I had to go edit some parts to ensure the revenue generation, while still partly digitized, doesn't cut out the park bosses and the park boys else it wouldn't scale through. How on God's green earth do you cut wastage to increase revenue if you don't plug the leaks who funnel the revenue to their pockets? |
BlueRayDick:Good. My redpill-tuned mind quickly recognized this as a counter for when feminists say they are oppressed and suppressed by the patriarchy in Nigeria. Saved to be used. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSb3-LSFq-w?si=__ZyUgWNe9qXdkAz I bet this song hasn't crossed your mind in over a decade. |
BlueRayDick:Your madam doesn't make you watch them with her? Lucky you. |
WhoDeyHause:Google "SpongeBob LGBT themes". |
Sportsweb:You will care when you have kids around and you can't freely watch movies with them because you don't know what to expect. Or you can't allow kids enjoy watching movies unsupervised because you don't know what indoctrination would be put on show. Even cartoons which used to be safe to watch has LGBTQRSTVUVW in them. The latest Kung Fu Panda movie had the protagonist have two fathers, and one of the fathers (the avian) was effeminate and was always in the kitchen cooking. |
BlueRayDick:You are worried about Hollywood when they are taking over our own Nollywood? During the Lockdown, Netflix sponsored a movie called "Ife" which is about lësbian love. This year, one called "Tiny" has been released which is about Alphabet people in Nigeria. Omoni Oboli has been releasing several lésbian-themed movies on YouTube. They are even outrightly added "Lésbian" in the movie names. She's likely getting sponsors to push that theme. |
MonsieurCoder:Then you find a lot of Nigerians and other Blacks prove them right by swallowing anything the Left posits. Even seemingly lettered Nigeria soundboarding the notion that the "Right is ràcist" nônsense. And many Blacks don't read beyond textbooks ascribed in classes to earn certifications. We don't research on our own. One of the proof is even persons who should know repeating that "Charlie Kîrk was r@cist" line here yesterday. And their evidence is a clip twisted by a race-hustling YouTube content creator. J.F.K (the best Democratic Party President) warned against quota systems and DEI and how it further diminishes some people (us Blacks). MLK Jr warned about these Woke people with their performative justice. Heck! The Democratic Party started a Civil War because they wanted to keep their slaves. Many here do not know the Confederates were the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton whom many would have supported in 2016 against Trump – and still twerk for – had her closest associate (until he died) as a Grand Wiz@rd of the Klãn. On and on I can go. But most Black people are teleprogrammed. That's why in 2020, Biden said anybody who doesn't vote Democratic Party candidates is not Black. And we proved him right like sheep because we are dûmb and his likes can define our Blackness. In the end, the Democratic Party won by keeping their slaves, the Blacks. In actuality, the Confederates won because being able to keep their slaves was why they went to war in the fist place. Anyone who thinks I have lied about any of these raised points should fact-check me. |
raumdeuter:Yes, I do but not so much – every once in while because he gets recommended to me but not follow like FOLLOW. You should check out The HodgeTwins on Facebook. They are Black and more of Center Right with millions of followers. They don't really debate much but post reaction videos and highlight the hypocrisy on the Left every minute. Even Stephen A. Smith cooks the Left occasionally, calling them delusional. I'm surprised ESPN hasn't sacked him. Charlemagne Tha god cooks them too on his "Brilliånt Idîots Podcast" with Andrew Schulz. They have one gày guy on there who's a senséless Woke fan and they destroy him every time. |
Ellexy:He was already getting shouts for 2028 as VPOTUS. I don't think he is a liberal fundamentally, he's an evangelical Christian conservative to the core and he wears that as a big badge of honour. However since his work is political and not just spiritual, he has to accommodate many people of different backgrounds and ideologies but with a common enemy which is the left. As far as you're a conservative, he'll embrace you and welcome you to the movement but when you hear him talk on spiritual and moral issues, you'll hear and see his real convictions.By liberal, I mean he was very tolerant. How many of us here on this thread who lean Right or Left want coloured-haired Alphabet people who identify as crickets and want to fûck camels in our churches and mosques? Charlie was preaching for them to be tolerated and treated right. The left really had no answer for him because of how effective he was and that was why he was taken out. I don't think anyone was more instrumental in getting Trump re-elected than him.Trump gave Charlie a shout-out on the Joe Rogan Podcast a month to the election. Same on the podcast which had Akaash Singh on it (I can't remember the name). On election night, Trump gave him a shout out again (if I can remember clearly). I remember Patrick Bet-David had an election night watch party in a large arena and everyone gave Charlie Kirk his flowers. Trump and everyone on the Right credited Charlie for getting the Gen Zs to vote Trump. Man had a Presidential funeral procession. It was his calmness I loved. No matter how provoked in debates, he was calm. |
"Maths is rãcist." These are the people you support? These are the people Charlie criticized. https://youtube.com/shorts/0pmGn00mG34?si=upz7QlM4NZRb9yZ4 Even in Australia, the Woke Left spread their ideologh there that Maths is rãcist so forced university to teach watered-down Mathematics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiS3iSEshc0?si=SYcm2Cw5qLAAe1Ue Just videos alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce9CLrgWhzs?si=Ht-PXtrf4l5_dcgw Google to find articles by top organisations championing the màdnéss that Maths is rãcist. You'll never read/watch CNN show you these crãzy comments but go ahead, believe Charlie Kirk whom you only heard about few hours after he dîed is a rácist – same Charlie who was calling out these cràzies and willing to debate them...on campuses. |
raumdeuter:Let them google "Maths is rãcist". The same crãzy people began positing Mathematics is a racial construct used to perpetuate inequality, and only racîsts insist students study mathematics. In some Leftist enclave, they made mathematics optional in some pre and post-primary schools, and insist students must be able to gain admission without any mathematics background. These are the people Charlie was attacking. Some of them never heard about Charlie until his déath, but some of us have been following him since 2017/2018 because of his friendship with Candace Owens (when she was coming up). That was the period in 2018 Kanye tweeted "I like how Candace Owens thinks". Charlie raised a lot of Black voices and helped integrate the Alphabet people into the Right. He was always campaigning for churches to be accommodative of people regardless of their sexual leanings. Charlie was more liberal in ideas than most of us on this thread. His many videos and posts on X are proof. More liberal than me even. ---- Here was Charlie in 2020 campaigning against selective teaching of Maths, insisting not teaching Maths to Black kids under the guise of it being racist is actually racist because Maths is logical and the knowledge of it is how Black people can be empowered: https://www.facebook.com/turningpointusa/posts/must-watch-charlie-kirk-totally-breaks-down-the-racist-critical-race-theory-thin/3448917931823565/ This is the man you people call racist? Stop watching CNN if you want to be really knowledgeable about world issues. Avoid CBS too! |
This video of Leftist Judge Ketanji not being able to define who a woman is started the tirade. Kirk first reacted on X then on video and on and on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGf6-TC2Vnw?si=OCGTk9RcnQidBVKb If you are aligning with anyone who can't define who a man or woman is, insisting gender is a social construct and fluid, you need to have your head exåmïned. |
raumdeuter:Very dishonest people. That's not the full video. The video was in the context of Judge Ketanji not being able to define who a woman is and Kirk stated, "Should this woman even be a judge if she can't define who a woman is?" The same crooks who cut clips of Jan 6 to implicate DJT then years later, BBC Directors had to be sacked for manipulating it. Charlie always has his interactions on Livestream or uploaded video, including his campus tour. Tel them to put their accounts on the line if that wasn't the context. |
DissTroy:Raumdeuter and A40: just today. 1. https://x.com/i/status/2035337851202584748 And 2. https://x.com/i/status/2035350353449730441 |
raumdeuter:That's why he's a Centrist. He votes what's mostly in the Middle. He's all for immigration wants proper documentation. If this Vance https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jd-vance-once-compared-trump-hitler-now-they-are-running-mates-2024-07-15/ can eventually support Trump and see reason – even campaigning for Trump and being his V.P., Fetterman can be turned. A reasonable Democrat is easier to make see reason than a RINO. The more people like him are championed by the Right, the more that 'redneck, racist Klan" rhetoric dies and is made to look sîlly. Even Trump is pushing all the liberal Repubs to the front. |
raumdeuter:If J.D. Vance can be turned, Fetterman can be too. Vance was very radical in his stinct as Senator. Fetterman is a more of a Centrist. The optics for someone like him on the Right makes sense leading up to 2028. And you see the way he always adorns hoodies and casual clothing. Imagine if we discover he can pull the charisma and eloquence of Vance? Gen Z will poll behind him like crazy. I like that the Right are keeping him close and buttering him up. Everyone from Thiel to Elon are singing him praise and defending him from Dems attack on X daily. |
raumdeuter:No, he shouldn't switch now. He should do a Wike for now - remain there, call out people like Newsom, cause enough havoc before the MidTerms, shake up the structure of PA Dems... Repubs will give him the PA ticket if he wants reelection but he should remain in the DNC causing havoc and for comparative optics. |
Theflint1:The difference is, all the men Feminåzis tagged misogynists are on Facebook and X condemning the Ozoro boys. That's how accountability works. We are not defending nonsense. The feminåzis will rather hide when exposed or double down defending an erring woman like they made defences for Mirabel. Did you see men deflect with hypotheses that the Ozoro boys are depressed, high on drûgs, and need rehabilitation? We took our L like champs and didn't gaslight the victims. |
