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Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by GboyegaD(m): 5:21pm On Jan 22, 2025
CoronaVirusPro:
People like you are the reason Black Americans detest African Americans.

Those diversity scholarships your people enjoy would stop and you will have no option.

Did you hear him ban legacy admission? No! Because it favours his own people.
Don't waste your time responding to ignorant people.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by sapele914(m): 5:21pm On Jan 22, 2025
Bliss4Lyfe:
Blacks because of Obama. allowed the very racist demoncrats that never wanted slavery to end to use them against the progressive Republicans who ended slavery

Did they forget that before Obama, it was the republicans under George W Bush that first appointed Blacks into his government cabinet; Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.

Seeing that the Demoncrats rushed in Obama for Black votes. grin
Wow you know your history, very intellectual.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by sapele914(m): 5:23pm On Jan 22, 2025
Quelme:
Trump carry on. You are doing the Lord's work 💪
Very funny, pride in ignorance.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by sapele914(m): 5:26pm On Jan 22, 2025
CoronaVirusPro:
People like you are the reason Black Americans detest African Americans.

Those diversity scholarships your people enjoy would stop and you will have no option.

Did you hear him ban legacy admission? No! Because it favours his own people.
Kai If they try this kind thing for Nigeria, na Yoruba & Igbo go full Federal Civil service, abokis way you dey see for top jobs for secretariat today will be extinguished.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by sapele914(m): 5:29pm On Jan 22, 2025
Rossikk:
VERY GOOD. SO YOU ARE NOT HAPPY WHEN YOU ROLL AROUND PG COUNTY AND VIRGINIA AND SEE FELLOW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE LIKE YOU, ABI?

Do you know it is because of Democrat policies over the years that all those blacks are there?

YOU PREFER THE BLACKS TO BE IN THE GHETTOS? IN SOUTHEAST DC?

WHY ARE YOU SUPPORTING POLICIES DESIGNED TO STOP THE BLACK PROGRESS YOU SEE AROUND YOU THERE?
Which policy did I support? U got the wrong fellow dude.

Have no idea what u are talking about, make Donald Trump do wetin e wan do, after 4 years new government go enter address the issues.

Or maybe mid term elections the citizens will teach the Republican Party a lesson because of the excesses of Trump.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Bliss4Lyfe(f): 5:30pm On Jan 22, 2025
sapele914:
Wow you know your history, very intellectual.
I saw them with my own eyes.

America election, Black vote should remain divided unless one of the party makes a promise to do something specific for Black people.

No party should act like they own the Blacks on a plantation like the Deomcrats did, it is going to cost the Blacks now not even the Demoncrats white who will all be MAGA with exception of the LGBTQ+ commmunity.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Bliss4Lyfe(f): 5:35pm On Jan 22, 2025
CoronaVirusPro:
People like you are the reason Black Americans detest African Americans.

Those diversity scholarships your people enjoy would stop and you will have no option.

Did you hear him ban legacy admission? No! Because it favours his own people.
Actually the Black Americans are Foundational Black Americans and African Americans.


We are just Africans to them.

They own American tag.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Ibime(m): 5:37pm On Jan 22, 2025
Bliss4Lyfe:
I saw them with my own eyes.

America election, Black vote should remain divided unless one of the party makes a promise to do something specific for Black people.

No party should act like they own the Blacks on a plantation like the Deomcrats did, it is going to cost the Blacks now not even the Demoncrats white who will all be MAGA with exception of the LGBTQ+ commmunity.
You are an eediot, just commenting ignorantly since. Stop embarrassing your gender

Blacks support democrats because they pushed through the civil rights acts. Blacks don't support Republicans because they are the party of the South, Willie Lynch and co

With your IQ of 70, you just sit dey tell a whole race as if they don't know who did what for them

Before you mention a Republican ending slavery, just know demographics have shifted from 200 years ago. This is about North and South. Blacks love the North and it's people because that is where they ran for freedom and jobs, and South enslaved them

Now check electoral map and tell me which party controls North and which party controls South.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by sapele914(m): 5:39pm On Jan 22, 2025
Bliss4Lyfe:
Actually the Black Americans are Foundational Black Americans and African Americans.


We are just Africans to them.

They own American tag.
When you have lived with those Akata people, one will understand that we are Africans like u rightfully asserted, & dey are Americans who just happen to be black.

I’d rather be an African American & have the best of both worlds, than a black American, but Nigerian African is the worst of the three, my sincere apologies.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Bliss4Lyfe(f): 5:49pm On Jan 22, 2025
Ibime:
You are an eediot, just commenting ignorantly since. Stop embarrassing your gender

Blacks support democrats because they pushed through the civil rights acts. Blacks don't support Republicans because they are the party of the South, Willie Lynch and co

With your IQ of 70, you just sit dey tell a whole race as if they don't know who did what for them

Before you mention a Republican ending slavery, just know demographics have shifted from 200 years ago. This is about North and South. Blacks love the North and it's people because that is where they ran for freedom and jobs, and South enslaved them

Now check electoral map and tell me which party controls North and which party controls South.
When are we going to hear Foundational White Americans?


Since you Blacks love each other so much.


When?
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Bliss4Lyfe(f): 5:52pm On Jan 22, 2025
Samantha125:
A lot of black Americans are now starting to identify as foundational black Americans because they want nothing to do with Africa, America is their country and they have the right to do whatever they like with it.

Stop forcing yourselves on the people that don't want you, stay in your countries.
Exactly!
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Bliss4Lyfe(f): 5:55pm On Jan 22, 2025
If a white person enters America today and can't speak English, they are White Americans and will learn.


On the other hand the Blacks are going the extra mile to differentiate themselves from those arriving from Africans.

Like they themselves never arrived from Africa.

All for the white man entertainment, because he does not care.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by smokinloud(m):
Ibime:
You are clueless. So what's his business with persecuting private companies who want to provide opportunities to minorities? That should tell you his real intention.

America has always had Affirmative Action (DEI of those days) and hundreds of thousands of middle class black Americans are the products of the capital that brought into their communities. Throwing out hundreds of thousands of families overnight creates an economic tsunami in the community, impacts children of those breadwinners decades into the future and has an economic impact which can be likened to burning down Black Wall Street

It has always been the case in America that blacks flee to Northern cities (New York. Detroit, Boston) etc to find work after being economically locked out in the South, and the party of the South (Republican) is in power implementing the same economic approach they have always taken toward black people.

In life, you don't have to be the smartest, you just need capital and opportunity. If affirmative action, DEI or whatever you call it provide that opportunity for us, that is a net positive and you will be stüpid to think otherwise in the name of "merit".

Using an analogy from "Things fall apart", if you look at Nigeria now, the most successful Nigerian families are those who engaged with the white colonisers during colonialism, serving as Clerks and Administrative assistants. They were not necessarily the smartest or most diligent in the village. It was the likes of Okonkwo that were the smartest, strongest and most diligent. But the opportunity that working with the Colonialists provided them means their descendants are now miles ahead (smarter, more intelligent and wealthier) than the Okonkwos that were forming strong head. By merit Okonkwos descendants are supposed to be the most successful, since Okonkwo was the strongest and most diligent man in the village. This should tell you that opportunity trumps merit.

Anyone killing opportunity to black men, even to the average amongst us is an enemy. And it's not like DEI hires are the dumbest amongst us, they still went to school to be able to get those jobs, and their children will do even better.
Removing DEI initiatives doesn't necessarily mean scrapping diversity and inclusion altogether. Instead, it's about re-evaluating how these initiatives are implemented to ensure they align with Western values and promote genuine equity.

It's essential to recognize that DEI initiatives, in their current form, can sometimes prioritize group identity over individual merit and achievement. This can lead to a form of reverse discrimination, where certain groups are given preferential treatment based on their identity rather than their qualifications.


The argument that DEI initiatives are necessary to provide opportunities to minorities is based on a flawed assumption. It assumes that minorities are incapable of competing on their own merit and need special treatment to succeed. This patronizing attitude is not only condescending but also damaging to the very communities it claims to help.

Rather than relying on DEI initiatives, we should focus on creating a merit-based system where everyone has an equal chance to succeed, regardless of their background. This approach will not only promote genuine equity but also protect future generations from the potential pitfalls of DEI initiatives, such as reverse discrimination and identity politics.


It's also important to note that the removal of DEI initiatives will not necessarily harm the Black community. In fact, it could potentially benefit them by promoting a more inclusive and equitable society where everyone is judged on their individual merit, rather than their group identity. Unless you believe blacks have lower IQ.

Ultimately, the goal should be to create a society where everyone has equal access to opportunities, regardless of their background. We should focus on promoting Western values such as individualism, meritocracy, and equality under the law, rather than relying on DEI initiatives that can sometimes perpetuate identity politics and reverse discrimination.


A good example is ISLAMISM.
DEI initiatives will definitely be exploited to promote ISLAMISM. This could potentially lead to individuals with radical views holding influential positions, imposing oppressive laws, and undermining Western values.

You're aware of the proposed congressional bill that criminalises ISLAMOPHOBIA, it's alarming to see legislation that could criminalize criticism of Islam GLOBALLY ( NOT ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES, WANTING USA TO ENFORCE ISLAMIC LAWS ON THE ENTIRE WORLD) in the name of ISLAMOPHOBIA. This is a serious concern that must be addressed before it's too late.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by zed7: 5:57pm On Jan 22, 2025
kedeojo:
Which tutorials, if the president said gala hawkers on the road to leave Lagos, people like you will be wailing and saying they hate us, because of our tribe.
Every critical thinking person is igbo. Nigerians and tribalism. It's a disease.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Samantha125(f): 6:10pm On Jan 22, 2025
A typical black American looks down on an African and they would do anything in their power to humble you for being an African.

That's why I never supported that black lives matter movement, it was solely focused only on black Americans and nobody else... If such movement was started in an African country, I'm very sure that those black Americans wouldn't care.
Bliss4Lyfe:
If a white person enters America today and can't speak English, they are White Americans and will learn.


On the other hand the Blacks are going the extra mile to differentiate themselves from those arriving from Africans.

Like they themselves never arrived from Africa.

All for the white man entertainment, because he does not care.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Tinubu2027Agend: 6:17pm On Jan 22, 2025
Goodvibes007:
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7437918
Saner clime grin

Tinubu till 2031.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by DonaldGenes(m): 6:26pm On Jan 22, 2025
iwaeda:
Trump is going to close himself in. Let watch the end of the story. grin grin grin grin cry cry cry
Did Joe Biden close himself in?
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Apcshyte: 6:31pm On Jan 22, 2025
idahme:
He is the president of the world that's why
Your world
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Apcshyte: 6:32pm On Jan 22, 2025
chopnaira:
Cos trump sells. grin
Nonsense
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Flangelo12: 7:05pm On Jan 22, 2025
Omoawoke:
Do you even know what this means??

Are you guys normal…

Haaaa…

Do you know how you or your family should have benefited from DEI ?
Dei gives consideration for less represented people, black people like yourself
You can't convince people who hate themselves.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Flangelo12: 7:07pm On Jan 22, 2025
Bliss4Lyfe:
The Demoncrats are not getting back in power anytime soon.

That party is super sick.

Would you like a teacher to take your son for surgery and remove his private because they taught him the wrong thing that a boy can be a girl?

What are we talking about?

Madness!
Name one child it happened to.
huh
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by godofuck231: 7:58pm On Jan 22, 2025
Hes eradicating the lies and false useless structures in administration
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Forkthiefnubu: 8:45pm On Jan 22, 2025
The whites instituted more than 400 years of slavery but can’t bear 50yr years of DEI , what have Trump ever gotten on merit in his life ? He inherited his money
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Omotaday(m):
BadBradley:
you're shortsighted.

DEI is a disgrace to your race and lineage. It's an policy and official fiat declaring to the world you're intellectual weak .

It says black people should be employed where they are not competent but to foster diversity and inclusivity.

It's same thing we do to Hausa as cut off mark for jamb.

You should pity yourself, really
I call your kind a victim of right-wing propaganda.

They realised that people of colour are rising and taking positions once deemed too technical or exclusive—positions traditionally reserved for white individuals. So, they crafted a narrative, to white people, they claim that is anti-white. To Black people, they push the idea that DEI is anti-meritocracy, hoping to make you feel ashamed of earning what’s rightfully yours or taking a seat at the table.

Surely, It’s very unsettling for them having people like Okonjo-Iweala (the first African and woman to lead the WTO), Mohamed Kande (the first Black man to lead one of the Big Four accounting firms), and General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. (the first Black man to hold the highest-ranking military position in the U.S. with over 130 hours of combat flight time) challenges their narrative, add to that the many Indian executives leading top tech companies.

Do you know a research was done that when job applications from various backgrounds were submitted with names visible, white applicants had a significantly higher chance of getting hired. However during DEI initiative, when names were removed from CVs, the probability of the offer going to a white person reduced significantly. What does that tell you?

Lastly, consider the Jewish community (or Israel) after the Holocaust. They’ve been provided with aid, immunity, protection, advanced technology, special status, they treated them like they are above everyone else which is still going on today. Why is no one complaining about that, or jews themselves suggesting it’s making them intellectually weak?

Thank me later for spending my time educating you.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by goody234: 10:23pm On Jan 22, 2025
CoronaVirusPro:
People like you are the reason Black Americans detest African Americans.

Those diversity scholarships your people enjoy would stop and you will have no option.

Did you hear him ban legacy admission? No! Because it favours his own people.
They never enjoyed it so just stop ...African american don't care about the ban they were never the recipients of it.... stop the lies go ask the Chinese and indians and white women.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by goody234: 10:29pm On Jan 22, 2025
Omotaday:
I call your kind a victim of right-wing propaganda.

They realised that people of colour are rising and taking positions once deemed too technical or exclusive—positions traditionally reserved for white individuals. So, they crafted a narrative, to white people, they claim that is anti-white. To Black people, they push the idea that DEI is anti-meritocracy, hoping to make you feel ashamed of earning what’s rightfully yours or taking a seat at the table.

Surely, It’s very unsettling for them having people like Okonjo-Iweala (the first African and woman to lead the WTO), Mohamed Kande (the first Black man to lead one of the Big Four accounting firms), and General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. (the first Black man to hold the highest-ranking military position in the U.S. with over 130 hours of combat flight time) challenges their narrative, add to that the many Indian executives leading top tech companies.

Do you know a research was done that when job applications from various backgrounds were submitted with names visible, white applicants had a significantly higher chance of getting hired. However during DEI initiative, when names were removed from CVs, the probability of the offer going to a white person reduced significantly. What does that tell you?

Lastly, consider the Jewish community (or Israel) after the Holocaust. They’ve been provided with aid, immunity, protection, advanced technology, special status, they treated them like they are above anyone else which is still going on today. Why is no one complaining about that, or jews themselves suggesting it’s making them intellectually weak?

Thank me later for spending my time educating you.
if i could shake your hand i would this is spot on ...white people always gave themselves the plum jobs it was a given DEI changed that slightly ,but to be honest it was a policy that worked for white gays and white women the most...
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by goody234: 10:32pm On Jan 22, 2025
I know plenty incompetent white people that never got their job on merit ...and when you made them look clueless they turned into bullies ..
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by BadBradley:
Omotaday:
I call your kind a victim of right-wing propaganda.

They realised that people of colour are rising and taking positions once deemed too technical or exclusive—positions traditionally reserved for white individuals. So, they crafted a narrative, to white people, they claim that is anti-white. To Black people, they push the idea that DEI is anti-meritocracy, hoping to make you feel ashamed of earning what’s rightfully yours or taking a seat at the table.

Surely, It’s very unsettling for them having people like Okonjo-Iweala (the first African and woman to lead the WTO), Mohamed Kande (the first Black man to lead one of the Big Four accounting firms), and General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. (the first Black man to hold the highest-ranking military position in the U.S. with over 130 hours of combat flight time) challenges their narrative, add to that the many Indian executives leading top tech companies.

Do you know a research was done that when job applications from various backgrounds were submitted with names visible, white applicants had a significantly higher chance of getting hired. However during DEI initiative, when names were removed from CVs, the probability of the offer going to a white person reduced significantly. What does that tell you?

Lastly, consider the Jewish community (or Israel) after the Holocaust. They’ve been provided with aid, immunity, protection, advanced technology, special status, they treated them like they are above anyone else which is still going on today. Why is no one complaining about that, or jews themselves suggesting it’s making them intellectually weak?

Thank me later for spending my time educating you.
I didn't read. You're a washed up fool plaqued by decades of radical leftwing abuse.

You're the finished product of liberal social engineering.

And your loftiest ambition is to be an economic asylum seeker in the USA and a canvasser for homosexuals and LGBT in exchange for a dollar.

You're made in Hollywood, limited by science and logic but buoyed by emotions, sentiments and falasy

I knew you would have voted for Kamala to justify why you were raised singularly in the absence of a father

But then . .common sense will never appeal to you.

Snowflake;
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Namigotalktru: 10:56pm On Jan 22, 2025
What is with all the trump newshuh What will
We do with it please? Do people even have jobs in Nigeria that we are worried about US?
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Rossikk(m): 12:12am On Jan 23, 2025
sapele914:
Which policy did I support? U got the wrong fellow dude.

Have no idea what u are talking about, make Donald Trump do wetin e wan do, after 4 years new government go enter address the issues.

Or maybe mid term elections the citizens will teach the Republican Party a lesson because of the excesses of Trump.
OK SORRY, I THOUGHT YOU WERE THE OTHER DUDE YARNING NONSENSE.
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Rossikk(m): 12:16am On Jan 23, 2025
DrAda:
You really shouldn't let these people get to you. Their ignorance can be quite frustrating. I have learnt to educate while preserving my mental state. Hopefully they will be further enlightened when they get to understand the full gravity of what is going on.
Thank you jare, my sister. It's not easy sitting and reading their rank ignorance. cool
Re: Trump Directs All Federal Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Staff to be put on Leave by Rossikk(m): 12:24am On Jan 23, 2025
Omotaday:
I call your kind a victim of right-wing propaganda.

They realised that people of colour are rising and taking positions once deemed too technical or exclusive—positions traditionally reserved for white individuals. So, they crafted a narrative, to white people, they claim that is anti-white. To Black people, they push the idea that DEI is anti-meritocracy, hoping to make you feel ashamed of earning what’s rightfully yours or taking a seat at the table.

Surely, It’s very unsettling for them having people like Okonjo-Iweala (the first African and woman to lead the WTO), Mohamed Kande (the first Black man to lead one of the Big Four accounting firms), and General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. (the first Black man to hold the highest-ranking military position in the U.S. with over 130 hours of combat flight time) challenges their narrative, add to that the many Indian executives leading top tech companies.

Do you know a research was done that when job applications from various backgrounds were submitted with names visible, white applicants had a significantly higher chance of getting hired. However during DEI initiative, when names were removed from CVs, the probability of the offer going to a white person reduced significantly. What does that tell you?

Lastly, consider the Jewish community (or Israel) after the Holocaust. They’ve been provided with aid, immunity, protection, advanced technology, special status, they treated them like they are above everyone else which is still going on today. Why is no one complaining about that, or jews themselves suggesting it’s making them intellectually weak?

Thank me later for spending my time educating you.
Bros, you have patience I swear. How can so many black people in Nigeria be loudly supporting white supremacist policies designed to keep black people down in America?

Is it an IQ issue with these Nigerians?
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