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RodgersAkpafu:
Gerra.rd59
please I will politely ask you to answer paragraph 2 for me
I'll like to hear what you think

Gerrard59:
P.S. Trinidad is half Indian, half black. The same applies to Guyana as well.

The largest ethnic group are the Indo-Guyanese, the descendants of indentured labourers from India, who make up 39.8% of the population, according to the 2012 census.[10] They are followed by the Afro-Guyanese, the descendants of enslaved labourers from Africa, who constitute 29.3. Guyanese of mixed heritage make up 19.9%.

15 August 2021, 17:31 by Denis Chabrol

Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, United States Congressman Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday backed calls by the Afro-Guyanese dominated opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) to address alleged racism by the majority Indo-Guyanese People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-led administration.

“We stand in solidarity with each and everyone of you to deal with the situation down in Guyana,” he said, adding that “we will not tolerate” racism, intolerance, hatred, xenophobia, racially motivated violence, discrimination and justice.

Addressing a pro-APNU+AFC rally in Brooklyn, Mr. Jeffries also urged American President Joe Biden to replace US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch who had been appointed by the then Donald Trump administration. “It is time for the Biden administration to act…and the first thing that I think that Biden administration needs to do is to get rid of the Trump-appointed Ambassador to Guyana,” he told the more than 2,000 persons who marched through the streets of Brooklyn. Ms. Lynch as well as other top Western diplomats had come in for scathing criticism for stating that there had been serious voter irregularities at the March 2, 2020 general elections. After five-month long wait, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) had used the results from a national vote recount and had declared the PPP the winner.

Gerrard59:
In return, Chinese students especially those from the Mainland would stay clear of British universities. Let Oxbridge and Imperial go to Onitsha and Ijebu-ode to recruit high tuition fees students who aren't mandated by law to do POF. As for subservient policies, most likely those woke ones who study courses with funny looking names and/or their cousins from Hong Kong. Some of them ran back to Hong Kong and Singapore after experiencing the terrible weather and high rate of crime in the UK.


My comment above describes such people. As of last year, Chinese students topped the list of foreigners who study at British universities but were below the list of those with dependants and weren't interested in staying back. I wonder how that has changed so rapidly within a year. I hope you are not mistaking Chinese Singaporeans for Mainland Chinese?


Obviously, they are not benevolent. They appear so because we are weak. The moment we rise economically, they would fret. In my opinion, they have this belief that we would never rise. Also, in their defence, they fear that should we rise economically, we would be worse than the Chinese, especially considering the inhumane treatment as a result of the slave trade and colonisation.


Because they have it better in South Africa than in the UK. When the Nigerian economy was good, our people went to the UK, studied and gladly/willingly returned. That is life - humans prefer to live amongst those who look, think, talk and behave like them.

RodgersAkpafu:
Gerrard59
please I will politely ask you to answer paragraph 2 for me
I'll like to hear what you think

IbeOkehie:
What is there to be polite about? Are you an Igbophobe? Don't you have married Igbo friends? Ask them if they did genealogical enquiries to ensure they were not marrying an Osu. Just ask, it's not hard. You could also ask them if an Osu can buy land anywhere they like in their home village. One thing I don't do is lie on a public forum.

Why not go fight that blight in Nigeria before losing sleep over White Supremacy

Good Luck to Nigerians.

RodgersAkpafu:
im an igbo person
why would I be an igbophobe

Owww Akpafu does not sound exactly igbo. but I am

Gerrard59:
He is right though. The way our elites think makes me believe we have a long way to go regarding basic development. If elites cannot have their streets pedestrianed or ensure indigent farmers cultivate in peace and not in pieces, then something is wrong. Anyway, I have never categorised Nigerian elites, public and private, as intelligent people in the first place.

IbeOkehie:
So why is the Osu thing something you have to confirm? Every Igbo person knows this. In fact in my own social circle here, that's the first thing with which I challenge every leftist Igbo Democrat, that and Federal Character vs Affirmative Action. In fact when young Igbo people born in the USA are getting married to other young Igbo people here, they go to Nigeria to investigate the genealogy. Fact and if you're Igbo you know it too.

Good Luck to Nigeria.

RodgersAkpafu:
paragraph 2 wasn't about osu
paragraph 2 was about ability of black ppl to develop

he has answered the question
look at his post

IbeOkehie:
OK, so are you ready to lead the fight against Osu Caste System? Because you're better equipped for that than fighting White Supremacy.

While we're at it, do you approve of Federal Character Requirements in Nigeria?

Do you approve of Affirmative Action, basically racial set asides and special advantages based on race, in the USA?

Good Luck to Nigeria

RodgersAkpafu:
Interesting question
To question 1: Osu practice is at the fringes of Igbo society today

IbeOkehie:
This is a lie. People I know personally, when I challenge them on this they can't tell me this because I'm likely to call them out on their own personal practices in support of the Osu Caste system.

You know it's a lie. So I can't read further than that. I understand your stance though.

Good Luck to Nigeria.

tishbite42:
A criminal is a criminal
He was an illegal worker

IbeOkehie:
The situation in Guyana is quite interesting. Everyone should go and familiarize themselves with the goings on there, especially since they hit a massive crude oil discovery some time ago that will soon start production. Of course there's a scramble for oil money and all that goes with it. The dominant races there seem to be the Negroes and Asian Indians. The Asian Indians are the numeric majority and control the government. Of course the Negroes are already complaining of RACISM and have gotten some USA Democrats to apply some pressure on their behalf. Very interesting indeed. We shall see how far they can unite against White Supremacy

https://demerarawaves.com/2021/08/15/top-us-democratic-congressman-calls-for-end-to-discrimination-in-guyana
I'm waiting for the Afro-Guyanese to declare Civil War to press their demands. What are they waiting for?
Good Luck to Nigerians!

RodgersAkpafu:
To your questions 2 and 3, I am in favour of Federal Character and Affirmative Action
But with two caveats

1. Applied properly
2. Have an expiration date(maybe a 30 year or 35 year span at most, the experts will need to come with a study )

Perpetual AA and FCC is counter productive and even destructive
The whole idea is to elevate historically disadvantaged people to "advantaged status"

Not to give people Perpetual advantage by scoring lower scores
Once there has been some leveling of the field
.yank it off

cc Gerrard.59

Gerrard59:
In my opinion, affirmative action just as federal character should be scrapped. No group in the world has prospered or progressed through such policies. Nigeria (Igbos&Hausa/Fulanis) and Malaysia (Malay&Chinese) are good examples. It does more harm than good. Equal opportunities, not equal outcomes. However, if affirmative action must remain in place, only descendants of enslaved African Americans should be the beneficiaries not black Africans wey enter aeroplane WILLINGLY.

IjeBos:
I don't think people are aware that the only real natives in the US were relegated to reservations by the European colonists.
Outside the Indians, there are no natives of the US , everyone is an immigrant and or descendant of an immigrant.

IbeOkehie:
Just as a by the way, here's some evidence of White Supremacist oppression of Blacks in the USA.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls

Good Luck to Nigerians.

Goke7:
Even the Indians migrated there too just that they were the first, reason Why America is called the land of the free. Canada same thing too. I don’t even care what the Europeans do in their own continent but you see North America those who keep saying they want their country back are deluded as no one own that land originally. And all the wealth there are the collective efforts of all manner of races. Even the Mexicans will keep flooding the southern border cos for them it was originally part of Mexico. Too many stakeholders for any group to form supremacy. It will always be met with backlash. It’s what it is

Gerrard59:
In my opinion, affirmative action just as federal character should be scrapped. No group in the world has prospered or progressed through such policies. Nigeria (Igbos&Hausa/Fulanis) and Malaysia (Malay&Chinese) are good examples. It does more harm than good. Equal opportunities, not equal outcomes. However, if affirmative action must remain in place, only descendants of enslaved African Americans should be the beneficiaries not black Africans wey enter aeroplane WILLINGLY.

zoghys:
You sound dumb, why will POTUS makes such weighty statement without facts. Elon is an illegal immigrant from canada, so gets the facts right before exhibiting your ignorance.

BigIyanga:
This convo is above your motor park brain league.. go play under bridge with ur peers
Someone whose grandparents came to Africa as colonizing illegal immigrants… shouldnt be telling us immigration

flyinnizam:
u are even this one without sense.. Biden didn't say he is an illegal migrant from Canada.

Neoteny:
You people say the stupidest things.

Nasa has been buildup rockets since the 1950s, has sent probes to all the planets in the solar system, built Hubble and JWST which have made invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the cosmos, sent men to the moon from the 1960s using technology they had to develop from scratch, landed rovers on Mars, and contributed to the development of new technologies including computer RAM.

What did Musk do? Besides flinging his car into space for no damn reason he's not even left low earth orbit.

As for landing boosters: heck, Amazon is doing it, the Chinese are doing .

zoghys:
That's because you are not just dumb but uninformed as well. Read the guy story before commenting

ObalendeCMS:
Walai, trump no go enter!

So you & musk want to dull my japa plan?

Walai, trump, you no go enter!

I can bet tit.

RodgersAkpafu:
So what is this statistics suppose to imply?

Again, what is the (mischievous) point of the stats u posted up there

flyinnizam:
na ur papa buy me phone to tell me what to comment abi

Owologbo:
He's against illegal immigrants.
You want USA to be like Nigeria that anyone can just walk into without paper?
Trump is not against immigrant, but illegal ones.

flyinnizam:
go warm ur eba for under bridge oshodi

flyinnizam:
who approved the work visa? is it not same US organization?