₦airaland Forum

Buhari is a Dullard

ResourceMan:
Do you know the high powered security threat your message has provoked. The other time you posted fake pictures of people in a school you termed as biafran army in training.
You are a real and confirmed 1diot. Just to make frontpage and be seen as a political analyst you go on posting sensational headlines. If the armed forces invade Aba and let off a massive bloodshed cos of your stvpidity, hope u will be happy.
It is 1di0ts like you that will not allow Biafra succeed.

Anything is possible in the zoo.

hakeem4:
I don't know how to rate your stupidity

that's because you are an illiterate

Onijagidijagan:
u never make sense ever with the three nairaland accounts you are using. i'll ban ur browser ip address off nairaland.

il y en a qui ont essaye

Death to sabo
the only regret is that some of them were left alive to spew nonsense

this is what happens when you let uncircumcised mallams impregnate you

cleatoris:
Sad. May God not give us that kind of baby.

who do you think gave her this one?

Udmaster:
May God help the baby.

too late for the omnimpotent one

child abuse

ezeagu:
I'm inclined to think ndi ocha and ndi oji were introduced via the discourse on race, I say this because of, 1. Albinos, and 2. historically terms such as oyibo and beke were used for 'white people' by Igbo people, even in the West Indies. But I see that your argument is that naturally people would see the difference of the so called races via skin colour, which may be true, but then we have to actually question if these were seen as 'races' in the European sense.

Even if it is beke, oyibo, or onye ocha, the fact remains that we use these terms to differentiate them from ourselves. And we use these terms collectively for people that are racially and geographically so far from each other, from the japanese man to the european to the south american, they are all "onye ocha" to us just as we are Africans are all "black" to them.
So I see it as ignorance not prejudice.

ezeagu:
It's gone way over your head. The idea of 'races' by skin colour is an invention of Europe. The idea that a Somalian and Nigerian are one race is of European doing. The fact that you can't see out of this paradigm means you are unable to identify the conditioning you've undergone.

Your original question was 'did white people call themselves white?', which I'm assuming was an assumption that white people were named so by members of other so called races, and the fact is that they weren't. White people called themselves white people and called others black, brown, and so on.

Now the simple question is (it's really quite simple), taking the 'exonymic' history and sociopolitical slant of 'black' into account, do you identify as a black person?

I understand where you are coming from but you seem to be confusing a few things
It is true that there is no single unique "black race" as even in Nigeria, I have nothing in common with Musa. But this difference is not readily seen by an outsider. Likewise, a Danish is very different from a Spanish even though we call them whites.
Moreover, other people did call them white. In my language, we had always called them "ndi ocha" which means white or bright people. And we call ourselves "ndi ojii" which means dark or black people. We never called ourselves "ndi ojii" until we met other races. And white europeans did not invent Igbo language.
Now to answer your last question, I am a black man but I am not black.

ezeagu:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people#Modern_racial_hierarchies

exactly!

Whites had no need to identify themselves as "whites" until they met other races.

Davos19:
is N199.05

From the CBN, if you have connections.
Go into the market and ask for the current price.

ezeagu:
I'm talking about the political and historic context of black. 'Black people' didn't call themselves black, black is a very loose term that can mean anything form a Somalian to a pacific islander. Europeans used these terms as a tool of racial classification and is rooted in slavery and colonisation. It is meant to be in contrast with 'white', therefore many people in Africa do not really know about being black, do people in your village identify as 'black people'? That is why I ask if you identify as black.

Did white people call themselves white?

fyneguy:
You wan buy dollar?

yes

fyneguy:
You were swindled.

Dollar is N230

Where please?

this is not funny
that judge should be jailed

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Everybody have their own idea of a supreme doG. Mine barks the loudest.

I am not Igbo, I am actually from a town called Nnewi in Anambra State.

It was only two days ago that people were rejoicing that naira was at 199 per dollar, though I didn't meet anybody that actually exchanged at that rate
This morning I went to exchange some naira and was quoted 241, this despite the CBN restriction
The real value of the naira if the restriction is not in place would actually be around 280
sai ba.......

NgeneUkwenu:
Our Amiable President Carry go joor!

Keep resetting Nigeria, while the Wailing Wailers Keep Wailing!

Onye Oma Ndigbo!

Ebekue Dike Nke Mbu na ala Igbo!

pray we never meet face to face, efulefu mmuo

U sound like a victim of classification
Black identification is not against you even though the term black is filled with negativity
It is only a term to differentiate us from others, it is not our exact colour (though some people in Senegal will make you think twice)
As much as we didn't identify ourselves as black before meeting other races, others, like the Whites didn't identify themselves as such neither
We needed these identifications
What would you have called us? Dark Brown? Black was easier and if we are suffering any discrimination it is our fault (Fela) not because of whatever colour we are identified with

Chiaka:
Please whenever you make a call to the Igbos please include we SS

WTF is SS? Sickle cell aenemia?

Mynd44:
1. Dasuki's case was one bordering on National security and they went with a warrant. It was during the search they discovered the cars. You might know (I don't think you know anyway) that to own a bulletproof car, you must have been cleared by all National security agencies including the DSS. So they were well within their constraints

2. Still Dasuki. They found on him high powered rifles which no one would have issued licence for. What is that, national security or what?

3. When oil marketers went on strike, the country was all but shut down. I think it is fair if we call our energy sector a national security one. In the USA, the FBI are called in issues of Economics that might threaten internal security or a cartel purposely hiking prices

4. Stop being a clown. When the DSS was used to escort electoral materials, you did not know you were also going to have them involved all through?

5. This is hilarious. The DSS can actually go into any crime scene they want and it is then their choice on whether to intervene or not. No arrests were made and they left them to their issues.

You people make this too easy

olodo in chief

those five words at the end were unnecessary and uncalled for and show you as an emotional manipulator of gullible nigerians

lies everywhere

CHM11:
Danny welbeck English or ghanian?
Is obama Kenyan or American?

Exactly. Alfa Biafran or Nigerian?

But that's beside the point.

pazienza:
Oliseh has made his bed. He must be prepared to lie on them. Goodluck to him.

The level of Igbophobia in Anioma is alarming, I had mentioned this before.
Don't take my word for me, go to any of the Anioma facebook pages and witness a level of Igbophobia you can only expect from Yorubas, it's an eye opener. I would recommend the Ukwuani and Ika ones.

It cannot be ignored, because it poses a big problem and risk. When you have a group of people you are not guaranteed of their trust, you are just planning to fail.

I also understand that there are voices of reason amongst the Anioma people, I see them put up pro Igbo argument in those groups, by they are often in the minority, far outnumbered by the anti- Igbo groups.

I hope IPOB are aware of this situation. One of the many reasons for Biafra failure, was the presence of fifth column within us.
I see this talk of SE plus Anioma and I just shake my head. Something is not right somewhere.

Online is not real life
Those that say that they are not Igbo should say what they are
Ika and Ukwuani are clans not tribes
A referendum is the best way to show what people are and before the creation of the mid western region region, a referendum was organised and all Anioma voted to join Igbo in the East but were overulled

sweetgala:
My exact point, but some people feel hurt if an efik person says he/she is not Igbo. Sentiments have clouded reason.

efik is certainly not Igbo as efik is a tribe