₦airaland Forum

INDIVIDUALS with Power is the problem.

Also,

an unmotivated public - not seeking CHANGES.

Barak Obama's campaign drew up the blue-print that the WORLD can copy.

Build an infrastructure first.

then we can talk about industry.

There is NO African cultures WORTHY of African Americans undertaking.

NONE!

We have our own backwardness furnished by the Whiteman (thank you)

We took all the WORTHY elements out of africa when we were sold into slavery by Africans.

We LEFT NOTHING in Africa. We CREATED our own.

Seems like you have fallen foul of just what you appear to be criticising. Ohhhh dear.

ALLOW her to pull her OWN chain, hell somebody got to pull it.

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To the POSTER, you are RIGHT!

I was once intrigued by Africans, until I felt their (false pride and shallow vainglory) sting.

Thus, I've researched it, and wondered why AFRICANS carry that "attitude"

I've asked countless black College graduates, and they never figured it out.

They just said they CHOSE to separate themselves from A.A.s.

HOWEVER!

I know the TRUTH!

AFRICANS will NEVER tell you who they really are.

Some are sons and daughters of the OPPRESSIVE REGIME.

Some are truly hard workers, searching for a better life (most)

YET, almost all have a Western Media view of AA's in the NEGATIVE.

Ditto

for AA's. We view Africans as diseased, backward, starving, embarrassing heathens.

HOW CAN WE CHANGE IT?






Especially, since Africans are TRIBAL, AND , hold genocidal grudges against their OWN black AFRICAN neighbors

keep it!

better yet, donate it to the children ESCAPING the witchdoctor.

obviously, you are out of tune with whats going on.

i was just about to post that. numerical values have nothing to do with purchase power. 117 naira will buy the same thing 2 dollars can buy. if Zimbabwe redenominates its currency as 1:1 with the US dollar, that doesnt make it as strong.

basic econ lol

FINE!

But Nigeria's GDP is a meager $296 Billion.

and MOST OF THAT comes from Nigerians in the Diaspora.

African Americans GDP = 700 Billion and counting

keep in mind:

Nigeria =162 million people

African Americans = 40 million people.

WE CAN BUY YOUR COUNTRY TWICE OVER!!!!

kick rocks.

I'm Glad my fore-farthers came over here to AMERIKKA in CHAINS!!!!

I wouldn't want to be an AFRICAN for NOTHING in the world!

Word!

1972
The Equal Employment Opportunity Act is passed, prohibiting job discrimination on the basis of, among other things, race, and laying the groundwork for affirmative action.


1972
Barbara Jordan (D-Texas) becomes the first African American woman from a Southern state to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She will serve three terms in Congress.

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From The Tavis Smiley Show

1974
Hank Aaron becomes the all-time leading hitter of home runs. Another African American baseball great, outfielder Reggie Jackson, sets records in several World Series in the 70s.

NPR Learn More: Interview with Hank Aaron
From Weekend Edition

1400
The Jeffersons, one of the first sitcoms about an African American family, premiers on television. It will run for 10 years and will become one of television's longest running and most watched sitcoms.


1976
Alex Haley receives a special Pulitzer Prize for his novel Roots. The next year, made into a mini-series, Roots will be one of the most popular shows in the history of television.

NPR Learn More: Roots 25th Anniversary
From The Tavis Smiley Show


Andrew Young becomes the first African American person to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

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From Talk of the Nation


In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court rules against universities using fixed racial quotas in making admissions decisions, a challenge to affirmative action.


1983
The song "Rapper's Delight," by the Sugar Hill Gang, helps bring rap to national prominence.

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From Morning Edition

1983
Nineteen-year-old artist Jean-Michel Basquiat wins critical and art-community acclaim for a collection of his paintings shown in a Manhattan exhibition of underground artists.


1985
Singer Michael Jackson's album Thriller becomes one of the best-selling albums of all time.


1983
Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple wins the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.


1983
Astronaut Guion "Guy" S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African American in space, flying aboard the space shuttle Challenger.


1983
Vanessa Williams becomes the first African American Miss America.

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1983
Harold Washington is elected the first African American mayor of Chicago.

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1984
Jesse Jackson is the first African American man to make a serious bid for the U.S. presidency, vying for the Democratic Party nomination. He will try again in 1988 but lose to Michael Dukakis.


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1984
The Cosby Show, starring African American comedian Bill Cosby, premieres on television. It will become one of the most popular sit-coms in history. It also departs from what had been the usual negative stereotyping of African Americans on TV by showing an upper-middle-class, professional, well-educated family.

NPR Learn More: Interview with Bill Cosby
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1986
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday is made into a national holiday.



1987
Spike Lee's film She's Gotta Have It wins him the best new director award at the ultra-prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

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1986
Ronald McNair, a mission specialist with NASA, dies on board the space shuttle Challenger, which explodes 73 seconds after liftoff.


1987
Reginald Lewis becomes the first African American to own a business with sales over $1 billion, by taking over Beatrice International Food Company.



1987
Pope John Paul II appoints Eugene A. Marino, S.S.J. as archbishop of Atlanta. Archbishop Marino becomes the first African American Catholic archbishop in the United States.


1989
General Colin L. Powell is the first African American to be named chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. military.

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From Weekend All Things Considered

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From the Online NewsHour


1989
Oprah Winfrey, the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated (and wildly popular) talk show, founds Harpo Productions to produce her own movies and TV shows. In 2000, Forbes magazine will estimate Winfrey's earnings at $150 million.

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1990
Ron Brown becomes the first African American person to head a major national political party, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. President Bill Clinton will later make him Secretary of Commerce. Brown will be killed in a plane crash in 1996.

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From All Things Considered

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1989
David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City, and Douglas Wilder becomes the first African American state governor since Reconstruction by being elected in Virginia.


1989
Sculptor Martin Puryear is the sole artist from the United States chosen for the Sao Paulo Bienal in Brazil and is awarded the exhibition's grand prize.


1990
August Wilson wins a Pulitzer Prize for his play The Piano Lesson. He won his first Pulitzer in 1987 for Fences.

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1990
The U.S. Census reveals an increase in the African American population to 12 percent of the total U.S. population, with over 50 percent of all African Americans still residing in southern states.

For Lucrabrasi:


[b]Corruption is a global phenomenon, intelligible only in its social context. It can he defined as anti-social behaviour conferring improper benefits contrary to legal and moral norms, and which undermines the authorities' capacity to secure the welfare of all citizens. In Nigeria it became the principal means of private accumulation during the decolonisation period, in the absence of other means, and came to shape political activity and competition after independence.

All subsequent regimes, military and civilian, have been pervaded by corruption. Aided and enhanced by oil revenues, this has created a deepening crisis of kleptocracy, shown in is most extreme form since 1984. It results in a combination of scandalous wealth among the ruling class with growing poverty, misery and degradation among the mass of Nigerians. Political life has become dominated by winner-take-all factional struggles, political cynicism and violence, while the economy and social institutions have been driven into decay.

Corruption has thus become a way of life in Nigeria, one which existing governments neither wish to, nor can, control. Combating corruption requires a popular participatory democracy able to monitor and hold to account those in charge of the state and the treasury. [/b]

Thus, It sooo entrinched and systemic - there is no END.

ALSO

very important, Diapora Nigerians PROP up your GDP!

It is Nigerians from AROUND THE WORLD sending money home that GIVES NIGERIA LIFE!

USdollar v. Niara Exchange rates.

1.00 USD = 117.763 NGN


United States Dollars Nigeria Nairas
1 USD = 117.763 NGN 1 NGN = 0.00849162 USD



Dang!

what do a Niara buy in Nigeria

How can a grown woman with kids agree to be used as "green card " wife and the man turns around and tells her he's now for real and she agrees?

Bitter?

You HATE because YOU not from much.

Bloods & Crips- African-American tribalism at it's finest (or should I say worst)?



400 years in America, and they still haven't lost the divide & conquer mentality they were fooled into?

YEAH!

But at least they got RIGHTS in Amerikka.

and

when they go to JAIL, its not crammed with shit & piss!

and

they can come out and get jobs

and

MALCOLM X, MLK, Corett, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc, all been in JAILS.

AND

STILL WE RISE!!!!!!!!!!

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In Nigeria, ya'll face FIRING SQUADS, even the innocent.

with all the layoffs, if you lose your job. Don't you lose your working permit?