₦airaland Forum

asha80:
is Mark okoye from anambra south?

Mujtahida:
Bro I get the subtle overtones of your writings. Let me put it out straight: the black man is sick. What the sickness is I can't say, what the cure is I equally don't know but what I know is that the consciousness of the black man is diseased.

asha80:
this ebuehi injury status is quite worrying to be honest.

Joebie:
You learn with a purpose. If it’s stops at the enemy as the target and how evil they are, of what good will it bring? Do you spend generations crying about how you are being held back? Even the thought that u are being held back can enslaven one to just give up, though u can argue it’s a fact. But believing that is more harmful to the mind.

I know where u are heading already with the Nigeria talk. But I will cease from deviating the purpose of this thread

Joebie:
If you would read my earlier post again, you’d realize that this is not a discussion to show who knows more about black history in America. I don’t have to spill out my knowledge about it and how I also learned it in the for corners of university and my extensive research and observation of the people. It’s unecessary. The question remains what are you going to do about it? Learning with the right perspective is important. If you learn history with a view to picturing how damned you are and how there is no way out, to what end? I hope this sums it up.

Bolowolowo:
Omanbala, I have lived in the US for over a decade. I was fortunate enough to do my last two years of secondary school there. Who ever told that it is overrated is most certainly correct. The USA that you're currently thinking of has been gone over two decades ago. After the stock market crash of 2008, nothing was ever the same. When I lived there in Boston, racism was seriously rampant amongst police and civil servants. University was so ridiculously expensive that I had to transfer to Canada after my freshman year. Getting a decent paying job is like finding a needle in the haystack. On top of that, healthcare is just too damn expensive, so if you were sick and didn't have it, you are screwed. The cost of living just continues to rise everyday. It got bad for me at once that I had to go days eating merely 1 packet of 300g noodles and that was it. Thankfully, I switched to schools in Canada, found a job and got scholarships, but over half of the US population faces the problems I face. The American dream is dead. USA is just not the land opportunity (unless you have LOTS of money). I think Canada has taken that title. As well, one must consider the copius amounts of gun violence.

Icon4s:
Men.... I know this is a view held by many. I cannot say it is false. But there are even more positives about the Whites visiting our once "dark" continent.

I chose to focus more on the positives.

Joebie:
I tell you the truth black Americans have had these kind of lessons at the homefront for generations now. How has it helped them?
The history of man is about conquests and kingdoms. Hatred of whites will not help our cause going forward. History should be taught with an analytical approach. What could we have done differently? Are we still under the influence of our past colonial masters? If so, in what ways? Hiw are they keeping us in check. How can we break away from that in the most clever way possible? How can we instill new values in our society with the aim of rewriting history?
Teaching ourselves to hate whites will enslave our minds even more. Hatred itself is draining and hinders innovation. The only way we can beat them is to use them. You can’t achieve this by wearing the cap of hatred. We must think how we can be better, not how we can be like them. For many of us, this is a tall order, and that’s because we are still slaves mentally.






I have read the history of black Americans extensively both in school and on my own personal time I dont need lectures on that and I have also learned about their numerous struggles but you cant compare their experience and our own because we still own our lands and cultures but none of these do they have. They lost every single thing that make them a people. The black Americans do not control a single sector of the American economy even the one they invented (music). It is had for black Americans to wiggle out of the bondage of slavery because the slave master did a great job in destroying their identity and planted a deep seated self hatred in them. The black Americans hate themselves more than the white man do. The job has been done and the whiteman just sit and lets his magic manifest.

Joebie, if I can get hold of your mind and twist it out of your body then you can literally do whatever I want you to do....

Humility017:
your problem lies in the fact....that you don't always believe they're few exceptions... you take everything wholesale.... a wise man should know that the world does not begin and end in his own sitting room...

sorry me say this its like you have a domineering attitude... you think only you have the monopoly of wisdom... what you think starts and end with you only and does not make it absolute...
the bolded alone shows how you reason...which may not always be true... your exposure abroad should tell you that people do things for different reasons.... so get it... yours may just be one reason but still there exist no mono-causation in the explanation of human phenomenon and conflicts...... so learn never to generalize things with value ridden beliefs.

may be you still don't get the influence of colonialism... the language we use in communicate is not ours.... we got it via colonialism... so bearing names that drew meaning of the language is just inevitable because It is our lingua franca...

Humility017:
you're funny...sometimes it will be good you think broad... everyone don't go in same direction...I have an ibo friend whose surname is George and that's her father's name she bear... according to her she has no ibo name as first/surname....

how about Nigerians from States like bayelsa who bears all English names... I have also seen a white man who named his son...Bode. according to him he named him after his Doctor....
so learn to always see things in different ways.... it may be that's the dude father's name and the fact that the german/Nigerian bear all English name does not make him less nigerian.....
the sun can be viewed from different spot....
not everyone cares about names being tribal/English....

Mujtahida:
The Tivs of Benue State practice same culture but such women are not looked down upon. It's a culture that dying out though.

mazimee:
Agu is a No No for me when I don't know what Agbo can offer to the team . Ogu should start.

Taliban:
I really love your zeal and passion for the motherland!!!! You are truly emancipated from all forms of mental slavery.

Meanwhile you should come home quick o, leave that oyinbo land, I will recommend you for a chieftancy title in my village. Come and walk the talk 100%.

Viva Africa!!!

Kog45:
I got your point,the boy is more of European than Nigerian even Dele Ali,David Alaba,Robinson Kanu,Remi Moses,Philip Idowu,Christy Ohurougu despite not doing it for Nigeria we can still say they are our own.

AIG07:
Moses is not the kind of player you'll expect to arrive camp early. Don't forget he is a family man and this too can be a reason...

But when it comes to the job, you can always trust him to get the job done and that's all that matters.

tbaba1234:
That is the name, he was given by his parents. He might have a Nigerian middle name. His father is Nigerian, Mother-German.

tbaba1234:
Nigerian/German Keanan Bennetts joins Bundesliga side Borrusia Monchengladbach from Tottenham hotspurs.

AIG07:
Moses is both the claws and wings of Super Eagles.

While Mikel is the heart and eye of Super Eagles.

Na d reason why I just want this FA cup final to come and go.

Martz101:
hello sir, was chimamanda wrong?

Mujtahida:
Maybe self esteem issues but most black men in the US avoid black women because they have too much wahala.