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emofine
pls dont dissapoint me

why do we shorten our names to accomodate faulty european pronounciation of the names when the europeans dont bother shorting their MCkinssey, mclough, mcpherson type of name
and nobody should give me the excuse that their names are easily pronouncable than ours because we learnt their language
the simple reason is that our culture has been swallowed the same way a shark eats a fish and has the basic components of that fish embedded in it but u cant say the same for the fish

@freecocoa, e be like sey u dey do am wel wel, dis one u r vehemently defending d man

eurocentric examination of black history isnt the end of the road for black history, its a normal human thing, when people are conquered, the conquerors write the history in order to glorify themselves and am very sure there was a time when the whites suffered what blacks are suffering today, a time when blacks actually took the credit for every european achievement and a time when whites felt inferior to people with chocolate skin
am sure they identified chocolate skin with fruitfulness[ not dirt] and they might have identified their pale skins as akin to that of pigs and other animals even their fur like hair

even in the roman empire, the northern germanic tribes were referred to as barbarians

the summary of everything happening now in african history is just a case of the rich and powerful getting everything even the things that werent earned and a case of the poor and weak losing everything and even believing that their plight has to do with something innate and the success of the conquerors has to do with something innate in them, it could be their culture, their looks, accent, language

thats the reason why the eurocentric views on great african cultures prevail because it takes t
wo to tango, the oppresors and the oppressed

go to this thread and see for urself
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-877765.0.html

guy, please continue, i was reading it or do you have the link

for proper clarification to everyone here, rochas okorocha is not an ogboni man, @op dont play with such things u will end up convincing people of something you are not sure of

ifyalways:
^A choro m ikpo gi ewu awusa but I cant bring myself to.Onye bekee/onye obia dere Igbo,I zuzuru ka ugbo oloko na e nweghi brake ede BS ibo. ibo kuwa gi isi ebe ahu.

u r nutin more than an animal. Bastard so u couldnt understand dat i meant igbo. Amosu, ara gbabuo gi, otu nne gi, anuofia

Well u cant speak d language neither do u know d culture but i guess his parents already know that, dont try to be ibo jst try to respect ibo. D most important thing is being respectful and submissive. There is no need to be scared, am ibo and i can confidently say the ibos r very hospitable, his parents wont try to interrogate u fiercely neither will they show u their negative notion about u but u hv to be careful to show them by ur respectful character wat their son wud benefit 4rm u instead of d regular cultured ibo girl. Goodluck

@to-chi, continue the post, i've finished reading everything u posted and it is quite educative

ATR means african traditional religion. U must be a hajiya (moslem) then?

@op, cant u take a joke, must u be so mechanical, i agree with ur point its just that i dont have the strength to start writing out my bogus analysis of all these things
u still havent answered my question, are u a christian or ATR?

@op, u r right, but just go straight to the point, where do u belong?
do u want to be Mrs.Pagan 9ja

check this site out http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27766
its very informative, i would like ur views on the situation in syria

@wislet, pls summarize rochas achievements or ongoing projects for me

@op, what do u think is really happening in syria?

i want to know from the forex gurus in the house if losing a reasonable amount of ur trading capital like 20% is normal even when ur trading system is okay, is it part of the learning process or is it a sign that u are on the wrong part

what is the point of the letter

explain

will too much islamic conservatism allow them to explore the world

am happy about all the posts on this thread, and another thing i would like to add is that europeans[caucasians] are not white in color but pale pink and negroes arent pitch black in color but dark brown but i guess many africans dont use their brains to think but are blinded by popular belief and emotion

my mistake there, i am also an emo-engineer, dont bother to ask [ am serious o], have a wonderful sunday

and does any of the emofine's happen to be indian? or are they pure nigerian

Beaf:
I keep wondering why this fool called Crap 28 goes on and on about oil wells?
The psycho is not even from an oil producing area, so what makes him better than his barking mad, leary eyed, formulaic version of the West?

Gaddafi is dead and getting deader, please cut the crap.

Beaf o beaf, u don finally show, for ur mind u get sense, i dey laff u.

buzugee, i read the scripture psalm 49;11 and it just talks about something very vague which can only be made sense of when it is read with the whole psalm 49. even though its a known historical fact that scipio africanus named north africa after himself

@emofine, i was actually praising u for ur wonderful writeup. my post helps to buttress most points made on this thread and i neva talked about Jesus. are u the other emofine[ the old one] or are u the new one with a different letter 'o' in ur name.

@buzugee, for ur mind now u be both prophet, biblical scholar and historian, dats very good but i think ur theories r way too farfetched. but ur right about us fulfilling prophecy

emöfine:
igbo2011, your thread does raise very interesting and important points however what I fear is that such points may be hidden beneath much of the black rhetoric and blanket statements.

I understand it is important for every people on earth to value themselves or if one is to appreciate another person, people or group it should never be to the detriment of ones own self.
But adhering to an image of a Black Christ in retaliation to the largely upheld "White" Christ as a means of elevating the black contingent is merely creating a rebound Christ and such could have a perverse effect on the people you wish to liberate as they and others may see the Black version as a counterfeit aimed to appease a particular group. Besides wouldn't the Black Christ be a mimic of the White Christ? - It's a sad irony.

However I've been loosely considering the relationship between esteem and belief. When one reflects on the trajectory of the Europeans and the faith they imported to Africa simultaneously demonizing or making redundant the African gods (who largely represented or resembled Africans) one can only imagine what type of effect that could have. Demonizing a God that one looks like whilst projecting an image of God that bares no reflection of ones people as the seemingly "true" God can also be an indirect assassination to ones esteem.
I do not believe in a spirituality that is governed by race nor do I believe spirituality should be hereditary neither do I subscribe to any images of Jesus be it White or Black - but how integral were some of these native beliefs/gods to our forefather's identity and esteem?
Being depreciated or made to feel lower than a certain group erodes one's self worth and such behaviour has to be unlearned and personally I do not believe that will be achieved by adopting a black image of Christ - it's just a gimmick.

"We have such an inferiority complex so we try and be like other people"? As someone has already highlighted on this thread, much admiration and respect is reserved for the successful and powerful and if the portrait of these characteristics happen to be white people then of course largely people will want to emulate them not necessarily or initially because they are white but more so because of what they are seen to embody.
Knowing one's history is very important too. Some are under the wrongful impression that civilization began at the first christian convert on the continent and if only such people knew of what great stock they hailed from surely they will perhaps want to emulate or even recognize that the characteristics they adore or worship from another group of people were also found amongst their own group.

P.S. Whilst reading your introduction my mind loosely pondered on the similarities of stockholm syndrome.

emofine baby you wont kill me even if u tried

the answer to the OP's question is simple, we have lost our history and the white dudes have replaced it with their demeaning version of african history
for God's sake, the word africa is not even of african origin, it is of latin origin
the term black or negro is also of western origin, i wont be so foolish to describe myself with their own terms

i am a human being, with a soul, a brain, i can love, hate, desire, create, achieve, i have a body, a skeleton, i have a skin and that skin happens to be covered with a pigment that mixes with the original color thereby making me dark brown- this is who i really am

every african must embrace this truth

@op, dont mind this whitewashed negroes on this thread, i was watching a tv program once on NTA and a vulcanizer was interviewed, the reporter asked him how much he makes on bad days and to my surprise he said " ehh some days when work no good na just 4,000 naira i dey make", i couldnt believe my ears

these people are the low class people that are supposed to be living on
less than $2 a day, even if they have 4 mouths to feed have u forgotten that their wives also work and might most likely be market women

the poverty this people face is more of mental poverty not material poverty because they end up spending carelessly after a days work.

and for those that are saying go to the villages and go to the rural areas and see people really suffering, let me ask u a question, since i have to go so far to remote areas to see people living on less than $2 a day, doesnt it show that those people are in minority since i cant readily see them? the major population centres in nigeria like lagos, kano, portharcourt dont have an abundance of these people and u are telling me that these people are the majority


all of you that believe this theory, pls tell me where u got this statistic from, is it not the western sponsored UN that gives u the statistic, people that dont live in nigeria, people that have maligned u over the years, people that wont want to have any relationship with u even when they are in your country, people that constantly call u 'black monkey' and also tell u to go ack to africa
is it not pure folly that will make u think that someone who in every ramification dislikes u and doesnt want to relate with u would then put up a research that wouldnt malign you

please kindly narrate ur theories on the syrian crisis

@deepsoul, thank u very much my sista. That was what i was trying to explain without lookin like a tribalist. Everyone knows dat yoruba culture places d highest emphasis on respect but their respect is forced and that makes dem very saucy nd rude at will, they can say d most thoughtless things in some serious occasions and they dont mind embarassin themselves

@op, welcome to yoruba culture, ur MILs behavior is typical yoruba behavior( they r jst too rude). I dont mean to be a tribalist but that is d fact. I know many Nlers wud attack me but let dem be honest with themselves. Elderly Yoruba women tend to be very rude and noisy