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Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Moveittothem: 2:41pm On Apr 29
Kemetian:
WHITE MAN RELIGION LOVER.

IF THE ''WHITE MAN'' MAKES THAT HIS FASHION, YOU WILL START TO WEAR IT TOO, JUST AS YOU PROUDLY WEAR HIS T-SHIRT AND SHIRT NOW.

COLONISED HEADS.
So which one are you wearing now? The one the white men made or the one your ancestors made?

Chameleon
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Kemetian(op):
6
SpencerForbes:
Oga, rest abeg! You built AI and you've been chest-beating since yesterday. 🤦‍♂️ Even the Greeks with all their philosophers and inventors don’t make this much noise. Does that mean you should isolate yourself? Even the West uses inventions built by people from all over the world, like Einstein and Galileo.

You truly dey fall my hand. Look at the clothes you’re wearing—are they the primitive versions from the West? No, they were modernized. Where is your own modernized version of animal skin? Or are you too lazy to build a machine to refine it?

You're thinking backward. Have you improved the Zulu costume and we said no? Instead of being creative, you're here talking down on people who are working daily. If the Benin walls mean that much to you, gather your brothers and go and start the masonry work. Stop making noise here.
SHUT UP.

YOU ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT.

OKAY?

WITHOUT THE BLACKS AND AFRICANS, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THAT PHONE OR COMPUTER TO TYPE INTO. FACT.

SO DON'T YOU DARE DISRESPECT THE BLACK RACE, WITHOUT WHICH YOU AND THE WHITES YOU WORSHIP WOULD BE LIVING IN CAVES IN STONE AGE, OKAY?

YOU CLEARLY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR YOUR AFRICAN HISTORY.

THE BENIN WALL THAT YOU ARE MOCKING IS IN THE 1974 GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS AS THE WORLD'S LARGEST MAN-MADE STRUCTURE PRIOR TO THE MECHANICAL ERA.

COVERED BY MULTIPLE SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS.

YOU CAN VISIT BENIN AND THE ENVIRONS OR USE GOOGLE EARTH TO SEE THE PATH OF THE WALL RUINS AND THE MOAT.

A STRUCTURE THAT HAS BEEN MEASURED AND WRITTEN ABOUT BY SCHOLARS FOR DECADES, AND WHOSE MOATS YOU CAN SEE IN BENIN TODAY, IS WHAT YOU ARE HERE MOCKING AND SAYING IT DOESN'T EXIST.

YOU NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE AN UTTER DISGRACE.

YOU ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT.

IN THE WEST YOU WORSHIP, THEY HONOUR THEIR HISTORY. THEY DON'T MOCK IT OR BELITTLE IT.

STONEHENGE THAT'S MERELY A COUPLE OF ROCKS ON THE GROUND, THEY MADE IT A WORLD CLASS TOURSIST ATTRACTION EARNING THEM BILLIONS OF POUNDS A YEAR.

YOUR OWN FAR MORE SUBSTANTIAL BENIN WALL THAT YOU SHOULD BRAND AND PROMOTE, YOU MOCK AND DERIDE, LEAVING FOREIGNERS TO COME AND PRAISE IT, WHILE YOU CLAIM IT'S NON-EXISTENT OR WORTHLESS. SIMPLY BECAUSE IT'S AFRICAN.

THE COLONIALISTS DESTROYED YOU MENTALLY. AND ONLY THERAPY OR DIVINE INTERVENTION CAN SAVE YOU.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Kemetian(op): 6:09pm On Apr 29
Moveittothem:
So which one are you wearing now? The one the white men made or the one your ancestors made?

Chameleon
SHUT UP THERE.

USE YOUR BRAIN.

DID I SAY I HAVE THE ATTIRE IN MY WARDROBE?

SIMPLY ASKING WHY WE DON'T DRESS LIKE THAT.

SO USE YOUR HEAD AND DON'T RESPOND WITH IDIOCY.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Nobody: 6:12pm On Apr 29
Kemetian:
6

SHUT UP.

YOU ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT.

OKAY?

YOU CLEARLY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR YOUR AFRICAN HISTORY.

THE BENIN WALL THAT YOU ARE MOCKING IS IN THE 1974 GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS AS THE WORLD'S LARGEST MAN-MADE STRUCTURE PRIOR TO THE MECHANICAL ERA.

COVERED BY MULTIPLE SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS.

YOU CAN VISIT BENIN AND THE ENVIRONS OR USE GOOGLE EARTH TO SEE THE PATH OF THE WALL RUINS AND THE MOAT.

A STRUCTURE THAT HAS BEEN MEASURED AND WRITTEN ABOUT BY SCHOLARS FOR DECADES, AND WHOSE MOATS YOU CAN SEE IN BENIN TODAY, IS WHAT YOU ARE HERE MOCKING AND SAYING IT DOESN'T EXIST.

YOU NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE AN UTTER DISGRACE.

YOU ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT.
You can see the path? 🤦‍♂️ I thought you’d be busy rebuilding it with your "brothers" by now. You’re running a race nobody is chasing you in. This isn't "patriotism"; it's paranoia.

Your problem is simple: you’re being paranoid. It sounds like an insult, but it’s the truth. The West isn't chasing you; you’re running from shadows, probably haunted by "ancestral sins."

Look at great Africans like Muhammad Ali, Osimhen, and Achebe—global icons who conquered the West. They aren't advocating for us to walk around in animal skins. Burna Boy and Rema are shutting down the O2 Arena like it's their father's compound, and the world loves them for it. The West celebrates our culture, hosts "Igbo/Yoruba Days," and studies Fela’s legacy.

Yet, here you are in your bungalow, feeling so "low" that you think wearing animal skin makes you superior.

Let’s look at how deep this hypocrisy goes: You woke up, went to a modern market instead of a forest, used your hard-earned money to buy a cloth (without being forced), and wore it just to "insult" the West. You couldn’t even kill a leopard yourself!

If you love the "ancestral path" so much, why aren't you in the forest? Oh, I forgot—your ancestors hunted those animals into extinction, and your laziness is all the proof we need that you’re just glorifying a dead past. Your ancestors used up the resources, and your laziness is the only thing you’re actually preserving. Stop using your "tradition" as a cover for being stuck in the past.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Kemetian(op): 6:18pm On Apr 29
SpencerForbes:
You can see the path? 🤦‍♂️ I thought you’d be busy rebuilding it with your "brothers" by now. You’re running a race nobody is chasing you in. This isn't "patriotism"; it's paranoia.

Your problem is simple: you’re being paranoid. It sounds like an insult, but it’s the truth. The West isn't chasing you; you’re running from shadows, probably haunted by "ancestral sins."

Look at great Africans like Muhammad Ali, Osimhen, and Achebe—global icons who conquered the West. They aren't advocating for us to walk around in animal skins. Burna Boy and Rema are shutting down the O2 Arena like it's their father's compound, and the world loves them for it. The West celebrates our culture, hosts "Igbo/Yoruba Days," and studies Fela’s legacy.

Yet, here you are in your bungalow, feeling so "low" that you think wearing animal skin makes you superior.

Let’s look at how deep this hypocrisy goes: You woke up, went to a modern market instead of a forest, used your hard-earned money to buy a cloth (without being forced), and wore it just to "insult" the West. You couldn’t even kill a leopard yourself!

If you love the "ancestral path" so much, why aren't you in the forest? Oh, I forgot—your ancestors hunted those animals into extinction, and your laziness is all the proof we need that you’re just glorifying a dead past. Your ancestors used up the resources, and your laziness is the only thing you’re actually preserving. Stop using your "tradition" as a cover for being stuck in the past.
STOP COPYING AND PASTING NONSENSICAL. RESPONSES FROM AI CHATGPT or GROK.

USE YOUR OWN HEAD AND BRAIN TO RESPOND.

BY THE WAY, THOSE GUYS WERE NOT NECESSARILY WEARING ANIMAL FUR. THAT SEEMED TO BE A COTTON DESIGN WITH THE TIGER SKIN LOOK. SO TELL YOUR AI GROK RESPONDER THAT, SINCE NOTHING YOU ARE TYPING IS COMING FROM YOUR OWN BRAIN.

WITHOUT BLACKS INVENTING AI, HOW WOULD YOU RESPOND?
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Nobody: 6:33pm On Apr 29
Kemetian:
STOP COPYING AND PASTING NONSENSICAL. RESPONSES FROM AI CHATGPT or GROK.

USE YOUR OWN HEAD AND BRAIN TO RESPOND.

BY THE WAY, THOSE GUYS WERE NOT NECESSARILY WEARING ANIMAL FUR. THAT SEEMED TO BE A COTTON DESIGN. SO TELL YOUR AI GROK RESPONDER THAT, SINCE NOTHING YOU TYPE IS COMING FROM YOUR OWN BRAIN.
🥱🥱🥱🥱

Let’s go deeper. I really want you to bite dust😂 it seems, okay we’re moving…. Why aren’t you wearing them or creating yours? You’re wearing a white man pattern to curse the white man, you’re clearly ungrateful. Go meet a tailor and sew your own cotton and leave us that don’t want it. I have the same design at home as an old window curtains. I can waybill that to you so you can use to practice your new madness scratch that, way of life☺️ change your mentality or you might never be different from those in sambisa forest. That’s enough lecture for the day.

Shalom😜

Assignment: Stop using modernized phones (sorry seun) but it’s actually for our benefits. We don’t need someone still living in 16th century here in 21st century. Next time kemetian, use a pigeon. That’s where your ancestors ended.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Nobody: 6:43pm On Apr 29
Kemetian:
MORE AI-GENERATE RESPONSE.

CAN'T YOU USE YOUR OWN BRAIN TO TYPE?
You’re so low. I typed that myself but I’m guessing because you can’t type proper English, you expect everyone to be like you 😂😂😂 I did English education as second degree so I can type with or without ai. You can take it to chatgpt and if it shows you it’s AI generated, then I’ll believe I’m a pro. You’ve gone so low, you’re discovering oil again🤣

I don’t have to use all caps, jabs or insult to prove a point. That’s what we call intellectual superiority.

I’m actually flabbergasted that my responses seems AI generated. The pleasure is all mine.

Have a nice day with your pigeons, ape-man.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by jazzman7711: 6:46pm On Apr 29
SpencerForbes:
You’re so low. I typed that myself but I’m guessing because you can’t type proper English, you expect everyone to be like you 😂😂😂 I did English education as second degree so I can type with or without ai. You can take it to chatgpt and if it shows you it’s AI generated, then I’ll believe I’m a pro. You’ve gone so low, you’re discovering oil again🤣

I don’t have to use all caps, jabs or insult to prove a point. That’s what we call intellectual superiority.

I’m actually flabbergasted that my responses seems AI generated. The pleasure is all mine.

Have a nice day with your pigeons, ape-man.
This na AI response. Baba go rest. Anyone can do what you are doing. Modified with bad diction to make it seem human..
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Nobody: 6:48pm On Apr 29
jazzman7711:
This na AI response. Baba go rest. Anyone can do what you are doing.
The pleasure is all mine☺️ hope I’m not smelling jealousy🤣 I just love when my write up properly proofread. Maybe I’ll go into proper publishing. But sometimes I might be lazy and tempted to work with AI.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by jazzman7711: 7:02pm On Apr 29
SpencerForbes:
The pleasure is all mine☺️ hope I’m not smelling jealousy🤣 I just love when my write up properly proofread. Maybe I’ll go into proper publishing. But sometimes I might be lazy and tempted to work with AI.
Another AI response with deliberate diction error. Tell your programmed-to-talk-crap AI assistant that the African outfit it called "ape-man" was worn by pyramid building Black Pharaohs whose grandeur and role in world civilisation is unmatched till date, and therefore cannot be mocked or dehumanised.

https://share.google/ZeYVR4kwBtzvi7hnZ
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Truvelisback(m): 7:54pm On Apr 29
So, to dress like bush man dey hungry.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Nobody: 8:08pm On Apr 29
jazzman7711:
Another AI response with deliberate diction error. Tell your programmed-to-talk-crap AI assistant that the African outfit it called "ape-man" was worn by pyramid building Black Pharaohs whose grandeur and role in world civilisation is unmatched till date, and therefore cannot be mocked or dehumanised.

https://share.google/ZeYVR4kwBtzvi7hnZ
Lmao 🤣 I almost thought I’d need a herbalist to translate this your response. I know you’re hating your thumb for typing all this English. I feel your pain, man.

Let’s go back to the original point (the one you’ve been trying to bury under plenty rubbish). This wasn't about whether your ancestors invented airplanes or AI or pyramids. I’m sure if your ancestors had invented airplanes, you’d have asked us to go back to creation were they wore nothing.

The question is simple: Why are you using modern gadgets—which you bought with your own hard-earned money without anybody forcing you—to hate on modernization? You’re busy advocating for the Stone Age just because you feel "colonized." Look, it’s simple: Either you lead, or you keep quiet.

If you love the Pyramids that much, feel free to go and pack in with the mummies. Don't act like living in the past is some kind of achievement. Even your ancestors will be disappointed to see their great-grandchildren refusing to move forward.

This is the problem with you and many Nigerians: always shifting goalposts, gaslighting, and dodging direct questions with emotional blackmail. We see it in our politicians and we see it in you.

My dear Kemetian, if you prefer Zulu cotton curtains wears and rubbing stones to strike fire instead of using matches, go ahead! Nobody is stopping you. Just stop attacking innovation just because you want to sound "woke."
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Kevineleven(m): 8:56pm On Apr 29
There is nothing wrong with the dressing o, OP you can start dressing like that, be the change you want to see, others might follow you.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Moveittothem: 10:56pm On Apr 29
Kemetian:
SHUT UP THERE.

USE YOUR BRAIN.

DID I SAY I HAVE THE ATTIRE IN MY WARDROBE?

SIMPLY ASKING WHY WE DON'T DRESS LIKE THAT.

SO USE YOUR HEAD AND DON'T RESPOND WITH IDIOCY.
You should have first asked yourself why you don't wear it, before asking others, Hypocrite.

Without the white man, where will you be?

Better start using your ancestors mode of transportation and attire. Chameleon
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by jazzman7711: 11:56pm On Apr 29
Such an intriguing topic.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Kemetian(op):
Moveittothem:
You should have first asked yourself why you don't wear it, before asking others, Hypocrite.

Without the white man, where will you be?

Better start using your ancestors mode of transportation and attire. Chameleon
WITHOUT THE BLACK MAN WHO INVENTED SPEECH, MATHEMATICS, WRITING, MEDICINE, ARCHITECTURE, PHILOSOPHY, COMPUTING, AND AI, WHERE WOULD THE WHITE MAN BE?

IN A CAVE WITH YOU!

THIS IS THE PAPYRUS OF MAIHERPRI, DATED TO 1550 BCE.

NEARLY 4,000 YEARS AGO.

DO YOU SEE ANY WHITE MAN'S FACE THERE?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Maherperi.JPG

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLlNC6AWsAATEV5.jpg

BLACK AFRICANS INVENTED WRITING.

WITHOUT BLACK AFRICANS INVENTING WRITING, YOUR WHITE MASTER WILL BE IN A CAVE IN THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS OF RUSSIA FROM WHERE WE PICKED THEM UP AND TRIED (UNSUCCESSFULLY) TO CIVILISE THEM.

OKAY?
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Kemetian(op): 2:09am On Apr 30
Our next door neighbours, SUDAN, the land of Ancient Nubia, built more pyramids than anywhere else on Earth, with advanced mathematics, algebra, and geometry.

Pyramids aligned to STAR MOVEMENTS AND CONSTELLATIONS.

Thousands of years before any building in EUROPE OR AMERICA.

https://i.redd.it/tdwzftnzwzh71.jpg

So what ''civilisation'' did colonial invaders bring?

They brought DE-CIVILISATION.

REGRESSION.

REVERSE.

IGNORANCE, AND THEIR RELIGION TO CONFUSE YOU AND HAVE YOU WORSHIP THEM AS YOUR ''LORD AND SAVIOUR''. 🙄
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Kemetian(op): 6:20am On Apr 30
THE PHARAOHS WHO BUILT THE MIGHTY PYRAMIDS AND TEMPLES OF EGYPT AND NUBIA, WHICH TILL TODAY DEFY ALL ENGINEERING LOGIC AS TO HOW THEY WERE BUILT.... THE PHARAOHS AND ENGINEERS WHO BUILT THOSE STRUCTURES USING ALL SORTS OF ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL AND GEOMETRIC CALCULATIONS WEREN'T WEARING SUIT AND TIE OR SHIRT OR JEANS THAT YOU FOOLISHLY THINK IS THE HALLMARK OF CIVILISATION.

HERE'S WHAT THEY WORE:

https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/2d/d7/9f/2dd79fd0f5c80882eb514fa0b2d5c393.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cc/dd/9b/ccdd9b4afae089c33150473c291b1a56.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/68/44/4b/68444b4c1cba75ee716f58cee60bdea5.jpg

As you can see, it's identical to the original outfit OP posted and asked why we don't dress like that again.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Moveittothem: 9:37am On Apr 30
Kemetian:
WITHOUT THE BLACK MAN WHO INVENTED SPEECH, MATHEMATICS, WRITING, MEDICINE, ARCHITECTURE, PHILOSOPHY, COMPUTING, AND AI, WHERE WOULD THE WHITE MAN BE?

IN A CAVE WITH YOU!

THIS IS THE PAPYRUS OF MAIHERPRI, DATED TO 1550 BCE.

NEARLY 4,000 YEARS AGO.

DO YOU SEE ANY WHITE MAN'S FACE THERE?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Maherperi.JPG

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLlNC6AWsAATEV5.jpg

BLACK AFRICANS INVENTED WRITING.

WITHOUT BLACK AFRICANS INVENTING WRITING, YOUR WHITE MASTER WILL BE IN A CAVE IN THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS OF RUSSIA FROM WHERE WE PICKED THEM UP AND TRIED (UNSUCCESSFULLY) TO CIVILISE THEM.

OKAY?
I didn't even know I'm arguing with a kid, Possibly a school drop out?

Look at the lies you are saying.

I'm done with you.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Kemetian(op): 3:25pm On Apr 30
Moveittothem:
I didn't even know I'm arguing with a kid, Possibly a school drop out?

Look at the lies you are saying.

I'm done with you.
WILL YOU SHUT UP THERE.

YOU THINK I'M YOUR MATE?

DO ANY OF YOUR MATES KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT AFRICAN HISTORY?

NAME ONE HISTORY BOOK YOU'VE READ.

HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE LEBOMBO BONE, THE WORLD'S FIRST MATHEMATICAL CALCULATOR DISCOVERED IN DR CONGO?

SHOWING EVIDENCE OF MULTIPLICATION AND KNOWLEDGE OF PRIME NUMBERS, AND DATED TO AN ASTONISHING 25,000 BCE?

OF COURSE YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF IT!

SO GOOGLE IT!

OR YOU CAN VISIT CHATGPT AI AND ASK "WHICH CONTINENT INVENTED MATHEMATICS?"

IT WILL REPLY "AFRICA, SOUTH OF THE SAHARA".

WITH FULL DETAILS.

YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT AFRICA'S HISTORY.

THE DETAILS OF EVERY CLAIM ARE IN THOSE VIDEOS I POSTED.

GO AND HUSTLE AND BUY DATA SO YOU CAN AFFORD TO WATCH IT.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by budaatum: 3:41pm On Apr 30
You might be the oldest on Nairaland, but the way you communicate shows you are the most immature too.

A mature person would communicate facts without the insults, but hear yourself!

Kemetian:
WILL YOU SHUT UP THERE.

YOU THINK I'M YOUR MATE?
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Topman7: 4:53pm On Apr 30
budaatum:
You might be the oldest on Nairaland, but the way you communicate shows you are the most immature too.

A mature person would communicate facts without the insults, but hear yourself!
You're a hypocrite. He just called the op a school dropout, and you didn't see that one, just the OP's response.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by budaatum: 4:55pm On Apr 30
Topman7:
You're a hypocrite. He just called the op a school dropout, and you didn't see that one, just the OP's response.
Go start at the beginning of the thread. It might help you see I'm not basing my opinion on just one post.
Re: Why Don't We Dress Like This Anymore? What Exactly Is Wrong With This Dressing? by Samantha125(f): 11:22am On May 03
Are Malawi's Ngoni, Mozambique's Shangaan, and Zimbabwe's Ndebele men xenophobic?
Mercury12:
that some xenophobic maniac dress style.
No way grin
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