₦airaland Forum

Afeni,

Come now. This not your first time to the table.

As you know, I actually believe that a lot of ethnic differences can be overcome by allowing people to control their own areas, cities and states under rules of the Federal United States of Africa government of course. 

Afeni,

Right. Exactly.

You actually think the recipe for unity is killing off or getting rid of other Black people.

Food4tot,

The idea that one can discuss Africa but ignore the last 600 years since "things fell apart", is ludicrous.

Ethnic differences are the problem.

Well, gee. I think we got a solution to that problem.

Realize you are Black People and the differences fade away. Realize that you have had somebody who is not a Black people kicking your azz for 600 years.

By the way, young people generally just call it "braiding" or "french braiding".

Generally the term 'cornrows' is reserved for whites or older black people.

You will see young ladies volunteer to braid some young man's hair.

The young man will shake his head -- no, I want so and so to braid my hair.

To which the girl being courted will be like "I am not braiding your hair. You move to much or your too tender headed."

The guy will respond "I ain't getting my hairbraided by nobody else but you."

The excuse of getting your hairbraided is a good way to get to know somebody you want to be in a relationship with.

Consequently, the excuse of " I was just getting my hair braided" is also used to "play off" that the man was cheating or trying to cheat.

Mamaput,

You make a good point. I think it is more related to age for men.

In America, braids are actually an occaision for a women to show her love for her man.

It is considered an erotic thing for a man to sit between a woman's legs all night and get his hair braided.

If a man can get you to braid his hair, he knows that he has you.

What could possibly be the purpose of this question?

Gwaine,

Nope. That was me. I see I took your words the opposite of what you meant. Sorry. That is why I reiterated the point. I thought you were not getting it. My bad. Sorry.

Your right.

Gwaine,

When you think of a 'meek and lowly in heart' person do they have these actions:

1. Take whips and turn over tables.

2. Confront preachers and tell them the prostitutes will be in heaven before you.

3. Preach about others going to hell more than any other issue.

4. When called by the government tells the government they think they are slick and to wait.

5. Give such concrete arguments that the people shut their mouth.

6. See a horrible death of someone, and then use that death to tell others, your going to die just like that, if you do not repent.


The point is the authors point. As the author repeatedly says: Our ideas____ of what "meek and mild" mean tend to distort the picture of Jesus Christ.

Seeker,

The site attempts to recover the reputation of the Colonial leaders of Nigeria.

We are supposed to believe that people who had no intention of ever leaving Nigeria, were really there all along to prepare Nigeria for a transition to greatness among African nations?

Recovery of one man's reputation, seems a rather petty goal for all the "white supremacy", "whiteman's burden", "our negros were happy until you interfered and gave them freedom" one is being asked to swallow.

I do not know if I could rate these African Leaders in order of importance.


Never give up on the idea of an African Empire._____Garvey (Ghana's Black Star is named in honor of him)

There are legends among the tribes that some of our people were taken away a long time ago And one day they will return, and when they do, they will return as supermen._______Lumumba

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility._____Nkrumah


"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom."_______Malcolm X


I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. ____Martin Luther King


God has given us this land._______Jomo Kenyatta

When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?_____J.Nyerere

"South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting"____Nelson Mandela

Afanye,

Dr. Martin Robison Delany has been called "the father of Black Nationalism." It was Delany, in fact, who coined the phrase "Africa for the Africans."  Delany was born May 6, 1812 in West Virginia, of a free mother and a father who purchased his own freedom in 1823.  Delany's paternal grandfather was an African chief; his maternal grandfather a Mandingo prince. Delany learned how to read and write illegally.  He later attended the African Free School. Between 1843 and 1846 Delany published his newspaper--the Mystery. Later he worked with Frederick Douglass on his weekly newspaper— the North Star.  In 1859, he traveled to Africa, where he stayed for nearly a year, searching for a suitable location for emigration. 

Gwaine,

Thank you for being gracious. Now please indulge me one last time.  This last post will be more directly related to what you are speaking about.

Christian Children must all be mild, meek and obedient.

Why mild? Of all the epithats that could be applied to Christ this seems one of the least appropiate. For what does mild conjure up to our minds? Surely a picture of someone who wouldn't so 'bo' the proverbial goose; someone who would let sleeping dogs lie and avoid trouble wherever possible; someone of a placid temperament who is almost a stranger of red-blooded humanity; someone who is a bit of a nonentity, both uninspired and uninspiring.

This word mild is apparently deliberately used to describe a man who did not hesitate to challenge and expose the hypocrisies of the religious people of His day: a man who had such a personality that He walked unscathed through a murderous crowd; a man so far from being a non-entity that He was regarded by the authorities as a public danger; a man who could be moved to violent anger by shameles exploitation or by smug complacent orthodoxy; a man of such courage He deliberately walked to what He knew would mean death, despite the earnest pleas of well meaning friends! Mild! What a word to use for a personaility whose challenge and strange attractiveness nineteen centuries have by no means been exhausted.

Jesus Christ might well be called meek in the sense of being selfless and humble and utterly devoted to what He considered right, whatever the personal cost; but mild never! Yet it is this fatal combination of "meek and mild" which has often been so often, and is even now, applied to Him. We can hardly be surprised if children feel fairly soon that they have outgrown their "tender shepard" and find their heroes elsewhere. But if the impression of a soft and sentimental Jesus has been made (supported, alas, by all too often sugary hymns and pretty religious pictures), the harm is not when the adolescent rejects the soft and childish conception. There will probaly linger in the back of his mind an idea that Christ and the Christian religion is a soft and sentimental thing which has nothing to do with a workaday world.

For there is no doubt that this particular "inadequate god" the soft and mild and sentimental, still exists in many adult minds. Indeed the very word "Jesus" conjures up to many people a certain embarrassing sweet tenderness (which incidentally could easily be put in it's proper place by an intelligent adult reading of the gospels). The appeal of the sickly sweet figure, or those whose methods are founded on such a concept, is rightly regarded by normal people as below the belt.

But in fact there is no connection between what has been rudely called the "creeping Jesus" method and the life and character of the real Christ. It would seem that the mild and meek conception of the deity could readily be seen through, yet experience shows that it is operating beneath the conscious level of many Christian minds, particularily those whose childhood has been coloured by a sentimental attitude toward "the lord Jesus".

Such people find their actions, and even their thoughts, inhibited by a false consideration of what is "loving". They can neither use their critical facilities nor speak plain truth nor meet their fellows naturally for fear they sin against the meek and mild god. To non-christians they thus appear unreal or as hypoctires, while the love they attempt to exhibit toward others is all too often a pathetic travesty of the real thing.

There is a further offshoot of the worship of this false god which must be mentioned. It is the sentimental Christian idea of saintliness. We hear or read of someone who was a real saint: he never saw any harm in anyone and never spoke a word against anyone in his life. If this is really Christian saintliness then Jesus Christ was no saint. It is true that He taught men not to sit in judgement upon one another, but he never suggested they turn a blind eye to evil or pretend other people were faultless. He himself indulged no roseate visions of human nature: He himself knew what was in man as St. John tersely puts it.

[b]Nor can we imagine Him either using or advocating the invariable use of loving words. [/b]To speak the truth was obviously to Him more important than to make His hearers comfortable: through, equally obviously, His genuine love for men gave Him tact, wisdom and sympathy. He was love in action but He was not mild and meek.

(from the book, "Your God is too small"