MrPSA:

People like that will never change very easy, hate is within them. In south africa we choose to live in peace with them, I hope AA also do accept them. Life is too short to worry about few stupid people like that.

Lol. You hope AA accept the klan?

Where do they get you trolls from? What site?

LaBellaMafiaZA:

I doubt it very much. Most AAs loathe whites & with good reasons too. They also hate Africans. They are a lost cause. Don't even know why people bother with them anymore. They call us termite & mudpie eating booty scratchers. Who has time for people like that? I see some of them as an embarrassment to anything black. You turn on the tv & one of them is doing a DNA test on 10 guys looking for a "baby daddy". Sies! The ones with class & without their trademark ignorance is cool in my books. The rest? Meh.

As for them living peacefully with whites, not everyone is like us my brother. We're a speshul breed They don't make them like us anymore. Bytchmade material is all I see with most of these people. They get bothered very easy by dumb nonsense. Us on the other hand are an "I don't give a fuark" type. We keep living. But I do hope something changes over there. America is a very racist CUNTry.

Are you in the US? I have never heard AA call Africans booty scratchers. And if they hate Africans, it is with good reason - we sold them.

As far as them embarrassing YOU or US, OUR ENTIRE CONTINENT IS SHIT. They are a small group. Try to compare groups that are actually equal in form? Like? African ethnicities with other African ethnicities.

Bye oyibo. Only a white man and another white man would advocate living peacefully with a group that terrorized the world. It is to your benefit and interests.

gatiano: its hatred and envy. they want everything about us but they can't get. who captured slaves? when you take people's resources without due payments, what do they expect? the resources you stole will attract its owners. and funny enough, these owners will come and say, well this is my land too plus the resources you stole from my home land. fact!

So true! So true!!

Ebola's Economic Toll on Africa Starts to Emerge
Virus Set to Hit Growth in Africa Just as Countries Were Gaining Momentum



By MATINA STEVIS in Johannesburg and NICHOLAS BARIYO in Kampala, Uganda CONNECT
Updated Sept. 5, 2014 4:03 a.m. ET

Health workers wearing protective gear conduct an Ebola prevention drill at the port in Monrovia, Liberia. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Ebola's economic toll on Africa is starting to emerge.

The flow of goods across many African frontiers, from Congolese copper crossing the Botswana border to used cars driven into Nigeria, is seizing up on fears that traders could be carrying or catch the killer virus. The trade slowdown comes on top of a drop in tourism and the suspension of commercial flights to West African cities as well as Nairobi, a continental hub.


The upshot: An accelerating continental economy has hit a massive speed bump. The International Monetary Fund projected sub-Saharan Africa would grow by 5.4% this year, but it is now warning that Ebola is set to badly hit growth rates in the countries directly affected.

The Ebola outbreak began in Guinea eight months ago and has since spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. A separate Ebola outbreak has surfaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The World Health Organization has warned that the epidemic is likely to accelerate and more than 20,000 people could be infected. Already, more than 1,900 people have died.

Ebola's economic impact has become so severe that the IMF is now warning that stricken countries could need emergency assistance. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have all been burning holes in their finances trying to curb the outbreak, and a dramatic downturn in trade—specifically timber and rubber—will compound those troubles.

"What is already clear at this stage is that growth is likely to slow sharply," said Gerry Rice, a fund spokesman. "Significant financing needs are likely to rise."

The World Bank and the IMF said recently that the epidemic would shave a full percentage point off Guinea's growth rate, slowing it to 3.5%.

Sierra Leone's economy was set to grow by a breakneck 13.9% rate in 2014, and Liberia's by 5.9%, the IMF predicted earlier this year. While the fund still hasn't specified how it believes the outbreak will affect those growth rates, the impact is expected to be significant, setting back fragile economies that were beginning to stage convincing economic expansions.

The Washington-based institution is already funding assistance programs to the three West African nations affected by Ebola. Sierra Leone benefits from a roughly $96 million IMF program, while Guinea is drawing on a $200 million loan, and Liberia on an $80 million one. IMF rules allow it to enhance or extend such loan facilities.


Agriculture accounts for some 40% of the economic output in Liberia and Sierra Leone and a quarter in Guinea, and the sector is taking a hit in the three countries as farmers are forced to leave the fields and can't trade across borders because many have closed, according to Manji Cheto, vice president at the New York-based Teneo Intelligence consultancy. What could be worse is the jobs and vital income lost in the sector: In Sierra Leone, for example, about 70% of the workforce is occupied in the broader agricultural sector.

Nigeria, which this year surpassed South Africa as the continent's largest economy, is better positioned to absorb the impact of the Ebola epidemic, which at this point appears confined to two cities, Lagos and Port Harcourt.

Still, Ebola is deterring those who help drive trade with Nigeria. A Nigerian customs official said revenue from import duties of used vehicles has declined drastically. Part of the reason is that increased surveillance for the disease at land borders—including quarantines for those with high fevers—has slowed trade and potential customers to a trickle, the official, who declined to be identified because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media said.

(Ebola virus update: Johnson & Johnson to quicken development of vaccine).

And It isn't just cars. "Many of my customers from neighboring countries have stopped coming," said Yusuf Adamu, an electronics dealer in Nigeria. "When I try to reach out to them on the phone they complain of stringent Ebola screening measures."

Zambia's health ministry said Friday that it was reviewing travel regulations for people entering its borders from Congo, the latest country to be hit by Ebola. Since Aug. 25, Botswana's authorities have blocked the entry of more than 100 trucks carrying copper from Congo.

Traffic along the Rwanda-Congo border has dropped drastically, as travelers stay away due to long screening queues. According to François Kahwerikula, a Congolese customs official at the Goma border crossing, known as Grande Barriere, daily collections have declined by 30% to 40% since Congo announced that it had confirmed the Ebola outbreak.

More than 10,000 people cross the Rwanda-Congo border every day for business, but a Congolese mineral dealer, Siraje Bigirimana, said he is booking a hotel room in Rwanda until the situation is safe. "It's very expensive to operate in such a situation," Mr. Bigirimana said.

(Ebola virus update: Infected doctor arrives in Nebraska for treatment).

Rwandan Health Minister Agness Binagahwo said that Kigali had deployed troops and civilian health workers to ensure that all people going through the borders are screened. All people with a fever of 37.5 degrees Celsius (99.5 degrees Fahrenheit) and above are being turned away at the busy cross points.

"No one passes without being screened," said Ms. Binagwaho said. "There is good coordination and everything is going in fine."

—Gbenga Akingbule in Abuja, Nigeria, contributed to this article.

Write to Matina Stevis at matina.stevis@wsj.com and Nicholas Bariyo at nicholas.bariyo@wsj.com

Kayraph: Hmmm....God help u all

Thank you

People that say that Afro Americans are making these things up..they call Afro Americans this because they think all of us africans are monkeys..and reference them as such.

Recent incident n September 04, 2014 at 2:39 PM, updated September 05, 2014 at 12:33 A


A Baton Rouge police officer resigned Thursday after he allegedly sent racially-charged text messages to another person, Baton Rouge Police Cpl. Don Coppola confirmed Thursday. Michael Elsbury reportedly submitted his letter of resignation Thursday afternoon.

In text messages obtained by WBRZ, Elsbury allegedly sent a message that read: "They are nothing but a bunch of monkeys. The only reason they have this job is the n*****, n***** in them."

Another string of texts Elsbury allegedly sent read: "I wish someone would pull a Ferguson on them and take them out. I hate looking at those African monkeys at work...I enjoy arresting those thugs with their saggy pants."

Coppola said Elsbury has been on the force for nearly 15 years. In his resignation letter, Elsbury did not discuss the ongoing investigation of his text messages.

The text messages were allegedly sent to someone outside of the police department.

African immigrants must be Ferguson strong: we are black, and we're targets
Pretending that we exist outside the consequences of blackness is an injustice to ourselves, African Americans and all black people

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/21/african-immigrants-ferguson-black-identity-politics


Hannah Giorgis
theguardian.com, Thursday 21 August 2014 09.15 EDT
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Some Africans lament the ‘sensitivity’ of ‘lazy’ African Americans who ‘look for racism everywhere’, but the legacy of American slavery informs every facet of black life in America. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni / Reuters

As protests continue in Ferguson, Missouri, however calmly now, I have found myself increasingly disappointed in the silence of my fellow African immigrant communities. There has not been the coordinated outrage I saw for Ethiopian domestic workers experiencing abuse in Saudi Arabia or Eritrean migrants in Israel. Instead, there have been too many dismissals of African-American pain, veiled attempts at insinuating these kinds of things only happen to those kinds of blacks.

Too many black immigrants believe ourselves removed from the threat of police violence, saved somehow by the allure of our accents or the false safety of our refusal to openly question American racism.

My father, a dark-skinned man with hair so tightly curled my aunt once joked he didn’t need an umbrella in the rain, immigrated from Ethiopia in the early 1980s to escape political turmoil, and acquired US citizenship in time to vote in the 2000 election. He does not see the police as an enemy; he often waves to them. He does not see my fear of paramilitary civic servants as legitimate.

And he is not alone in his sentiments. Buoyed by racist perceptions of Africans and West Indians as more hard-working than our African-American counterparts, black immigrants often actively distance ourselves from issues like police brutality, which we too often believe to be relevant only for native-born black people. The divide is neither new nor altogether surprising. Black immigrants often cling to ethnic ties, resisting the American categories of race that lump us into a monolithic designation that we too often feel is inauthentic.

But in a nation with such an entrenched history of white supremacy, we are black, and we are targets. Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo was not asked about his native language before officers emptied 41 bullets into his body. When Haitian immigrant Abner Louima was brutalized by NYPD officers, none of them paused to inquire if he was the “right” kind of black to be torturing. Our international flavor of respectability politics will not save us from the sin of our skin.

The unwillingness of my fellow Africans to stand in solidarity with African Americans is about more than just a desire to remain in touch with our heritage – or even a failure to believe in global blackness as an authentic marker of identity. I have overheard relatives lament the “sensitivity” of “lazy” African Americans who “look for racism everywhere”, blissfully unaware of the ways in which the violent legacy of American slavery informs every facet of black life in America. And while having been socialized in the United States as a black woman will never allow me to condone this form of intra-racial violence, I do understand the internalized racism and heartbreak that fuel it.

Michael Brown shooting: Help the world hear your police racial profiling story
The killing of Michael Brown is one of those stories that is more than local news – it’s the story of one young man shot by a police officer in Ferguson, and the story of so many people of color, in so many places.


There is pain in accepting that the country you thought would save you from your homeland doesn’t want you. There is trauma in realizing that you are not wanted here, that your accent doesn’t make you special, that you are subject to violence based on the color of your skin in a nation that was supposed to be your promised land. We don’t want to believe that our blackness turns the American dream into a nightmare – that our bodies are the monsters.

But we cannot continue to be dishonest with ourselves. We are here, and we are black. That is both blessing and curse, question and answer. To pretend that we exist outside the consequences of blackness in this country is to do both ourselves and African Americans a profound injustice. It makes us complicit in perpetuating dangerous stereotypes about African Americans – and by extension, all black people.

Dishonesty in identity politics endangers black immigrant youth by failing to prepare them for the extended mental assault that this country’s racism will have on their bodies – and for the physical assaults that could claim their lives more quickly.

Every 28 hours in this country, a black person is killed extrajudicially by police or vigilantes. Black immigrants are deported at numbers that far eclipse other immigrant groups because we are perceived as criminal. These facts do not exist independently of one another. By entering this country, we have woven ourselves into the racial patchwork of a nation that would rather soak its colored threads in blood.

We are here, working jobs and living our lives, only because of the profound sacrifices that black folks in this country have been making since its inhumane inception. We cannot pretend to only have inherited its riches; we cannot turn our backs on the kinfolk who made our existence here possible just because we falsely believe their concerns to not include us. We bear the beauty of blackness – now we must bear its responsibilities.

They stood up for Mike Brown, and I received a ton of tweets about this. The Afro Americans are into black nationalism so this was well received.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10202197761696556

anonymous6:

Ok, I respect that from you and will read your sources

You don't need to apologize to a white troll, lol

Ok thank you sister! Please please try to watch Melissa Perry on msnbc. She comes on Saturdays. I know we are going to unite one day.

@anonymous6

Here is the civil rights point: http://news.yahoo.com/ferguson-releases-incomplete-police-report-on-death-of-michael-brown-221844542.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/18/1322624/-The-Niggerization-of-Michael-Brown-by-the-Ferguson-Police-Department-and-the-Right-Wing-Media

Melissa H Perry MSNBC on SAT

anonymous6:

I know I wasn't born here magically and I know the benefits of the Civil rights movement struggle of decades ago have done for me, It made people like President Obama, Oprah, Condolessa Rice, Mellody Hobson and many others possible. I help Nigeria they way I want and have donated to Bring back Our girls as well. Your not God and I am not, so you have no right to judge me as if you opinion is the holy grail.

Is there still issues since the Civil rights movement of decades ago? YES, Was the Trayvon Martin Case of last year one of them? YES but is Ferguson one of them? not so much

OK, CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/19/us/ferguson-michael-brown-dueling-narratives/

Yeah I know it's a open forum and I will encounter people with differing opinions but to insult is something entirely something I won't do but you did, which is what I am suspecting is how you communicate with people on nairaland.

Lets agree to disagree

have a good day

Ok well I apologize to you because you are actually black Nigerian. I will not apologize to that white troll!

Here is an alternative view (I do disagree with your position still but i will just provide you with links, you are my sister)

Will add more

http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/08/what_to_read_about_ferguson.html

http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/08/10_social_media_shares_about_the_horrors_in_ferguson.html

http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/08/9_things_about_ferguson_that_will_make_go_hmmm.html

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/19/deep-seated-racism-root-ferguson-polices-handling-mike-brown-shooting.html

http://socialistworker.org/2014/08/20/racism-killed-mike-brown

all4naija:
No reference point is exclusively needed in your post to defend your points than tried to exonerate the action of those who stole people into slavery. You purported a means to blame slavery on the KINGS yet couldn't provide an answer to 'factoid question' that seems to prove otherwise. How is my question not relevant to your argument? That is still something you need to prove. It is annoying and absolutely unacceptable in any reasonable discussion.

I am not acting. I am telling you that guns were used by the slave masters to force people into slavery because there is no source pointing to African KINGS using guns on their subjects. Excepting you have to provide your different side to prove that wrong. Kings having guns possibly traded for pepper and animals materials, like skin, bone, ivory,etc. All you could figure out is that those guns were often more none traded for people. It means they probably have tenth to the hundredth of million guns for the slaves traded at their disposal. Bwahaha... Make good use of your brain, man. The superheroes in your post only makes your point very petty and prove your are shallow-mind in addressing such a sensitive issue as slavery. The weapons they come with are superior in the sense make them more of a superheroes. We can see that in today's technological advancement of the developed world. It makes them look supper-humans to Africans in their peasant lifestyle.

I assumed you were African American looking at the way you present your views. Nevertheless, while I still stand by my point, there is nothing wrong in my assumption because of your position. Now that you have able to tell us about your person there is nothing to cry about in that my statement. The earlier you realized that the better for you to move on with your miserable life in calling me a bigot.

I rarely call people dumb, but you are.

1. A reference point was needed for him to research the kings apology. With that reference point, he could research the kings DOCUMENTED evidence and role in slavery.
2. The reference to kings was purely historical. You dont quite get it because you are not well versed on the subject, and instead of actually providing ME with proof that I was wrong, you and your alter ego cite oral history, and hearsay.

I dont need to prove anything. If you want to debate i d i o t, at least debase my argument.