₦airaland Forum

Edygirl,

Sister, thank you for your graciousness.

Have a good night.

Drusilla,

I’ll leave you alone for now. I shall not hands-off completely until you retract all those insulting statements made about my African people.

Nutter,

Thank you.

Mariory,

We were not discussing sane people, we were discussing liars.

Edygirl & Nutter,

I decided, probably very wisely, that I should repent from this line of thinking.

That's all.

Edygirl,

Don't mind me. I can laugh.

Have a great evening. Smile.

LOL SMILE

Edygirl,

Thank you. This made my day.

I guess I am still a girl at heart and love to leave a room and have all the men shout at once:

I don't know what the hell she was talking about but damn!!!!

LOL SMILE

Have a good day and this is a wonderful topic.

As Bob Marley said when reporters would ask him if he hated whites, because of the things he said:

I am Black and White. I can not hate myself.

Mariory,

You are a liar. My own mother is white. My brother and my sister too. My grandparents and my aunts and uncles. I am named after my white great grandmother and look exactly like my white grandmother.

It is getting a little sickening the way so many here choose to lie on me, that I hate whites, rather than face the reality that I could be telling the truth about the white people they worship as gods.

Zebudaya,

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus and was arrested and put in jail. All Black people walked until they broke the back of Jim Crow. Again it just takes One person to say: Black people are important. If we could get just One to stand in front of the police station in Nigeria until the killer is found. And another One to take his place after they kill or put him in jail. Doesn't take a dew drop of education. Doesn't take a gun or a willingness to kill. Africa has had enough of that. It just takes people who know that every Black person has value.

How's that? (I actually prefer spaced out posts but ain't gonna let nothing like that get in between us.)

toshman,

None of that comes until people start to see their own worth.

And I do not mean that mentally ill type of worth and value that some have shown here: of people having worth only if they have an college education or have money.

I am talking about a basic worth of the person as another Black person in this world struggling just like me to make it in this world where we as black people have been dominated and oppressed for at least the last 600 years.

Debosky,

Think about Ida B. Wells.

She was One. She said, I care. She carefully documented blacks being lynched and the reasons. On her own, nobody paid her for this.

She was actually killed by whites for her little book.

It is not even possible for her to have known how her little book would help put an end to lynching decades later.

Nor could she have known that her book would be taught at every American University and all children black and white would be taught her name in this country.

This is a revolution of One.

Just One has to say they care.

That is how long this takes.

In America Black Americans risk their own lives and the comfort of their own lives being disturbed if and when they see a black person being arrested or held in a police car. They will stop their own car and get out and ask what is going on. Cops will get mad and tell them to get away before they get charged with obstruction of justice.

I just watched a 19 year old girl get thrown in a police car and get a ticket for disturbing the peace because of this very thing, not less than 2 weeks ago. I've seen it many a times.

And you better believe she has pictures on her camera cell phone of the whole incident for when she goes to court.

She aint even finished high school, she ain't sat at the feet of no great revolutionary teachers.

All she knows is that if you see Black people in trouble being harrassed by police or otherwise being hurt.

You must be a revolution of One and be willing to die for them.

She says: I am Black and they are Black.

And that is all that she needs to know, to make her put her life on the line.

Africa & Nigeria does not lack people willing to kill another Black person.

They lack people willing to die for another Black person.

This is why they must be taught to love their own Blackselves.

Debosky,

I agree.

Someone made what was supposed to be a mean remark to me about dying in America not Africa.

If I die in America, Black Americans might set  fire to all of these cities depending on how important I am.

Even as an American, America might bomb on an African country if someone kills me there. (the soldier killed in Germany that caused America to bomb Libya was Black)

There are marches in every innercity all summer long to protest the police doing nothing about Black children getting murdered by other black children, so even the least of us Blacks in America or the West will not go unnoticed into the grave.

I did not even reply to the person calling themselves being mean to me. I felt the pain too deeply of the fear of dying in Africa.

I want to change that. But people ain't hearing me yet.

We got to say that all black life is valuable and that won't happen by magic. You have to teach black people that they are valuable.

toshman,

It is not like you take a bus daily from the UK back to Nigeria. Don't play games.

I have already replied to you in that other thread.

Sorry but one does tire easily of serious things being spoken of, only to have someone who refuses to read replies longer than sound bites, come along and give you a meaningless sound bite.

You might as well start dropping your favorite singers into the politics section in response to those making an effort to talk about these things.

They would have the same value as some of your more banal statements.

Your whitegirling me.

toshman,

Thank you. Another useless statement.

Nice of you to say that from the comfort of the UK.

Where they have their own Afrocentrics, who work with ours.

But you keep fooling yourself, that living in our shadow, changes a damn thing about what I said above.

Panache,

That's the truth.

At no time in the last 600 years has any Nigerian ever been given any idea that a Black Life is worthy.

A person can pick up a rock and if it is smooth, knows that it probably has a history of being in water. If the rock is rough, it may have a history of being in rough and tumble places.

Yet some Nigerians have an idea that some magic will come to their country and they will magically value each other and change their country.

Without dealing with what has been passed down to each and every one of them, in generation after generation, in all the cultures of Nigeria, that Black life has no value.

No in fact, some will fight you hard and call you the racist if you even want to bring that up.

Maybe one day those Nigerians will get how all these things are connected.

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