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Diamond098454:
That doesn't make him a simp. He's a real man and a great father

I don't know that it makes him a real man but I don't think it necessarily makes him a simp

So sorry folks, we just need more votes and more comments. Here are some comments so far below. LordReed, as an atheist (are you still an atheist?), what say you?

Diamond098454:
That doesn't make him a simp. He's a real man and a great father

ariesbull:
That's a lie....I can't live a lie! If the child isn't mine biologically that child isn't yours biologically ..if you want to adopt ..adopt and make it clear

femi4:
He is not a simp. People go for adoption, uses sperm donor and nature the kids to be a great personalty

Joke Silva that we all celebrate today was adopted from a foster home

One of the reasons she kept the family name even after marriage to honor them in agreement with Olu jacobs

DiarisGodoo:
For him to refuse DNA test means he already strongly suspects the child is not his. I will say he is a simp only because he is burying his head in sand instead of being man enough to want to know for sure no matter what.

CanadaOrBust:
I'd say him not wanting to know is simpish behavior. There is something not manly about it. Different if he knew for sure but decides to raise the child anyway

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POLL! POLL!! POLL!!!

Folks please don't be very angry, we just instituted a POLL!
PLEASE GO AND VOTE!
The Poll Question is:
If a man refuses DNA test because he loves the child too much does that make him a simp?

Also comment here on the thread if possible, as to your reasons why or why not!

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Also please help me welcome our resident Louisiana Creole who has never been anywhere near Africa and therefore thought Africans lived on trees. He has now repented and has accepted he has African blood - after reading what I wrote him below:

From QuinQQ to Secretbloodline:

Granpa, let me spell it out for you so you don't stay confused, so you face REALITY and stop living in La La Land
1) You ARE an African-American. You are also a European-American but that part of you is not recognized in your country, USA.
It would be recognized if you were in, say, South Africa, but you're not!
2) All those dead people you keep hanging unto, De Frank, De France, De Clarke, De Gaul, St Louis, NONE of them would have accepted you if they were alive, just as American Whites will never accept you.
3) You are Secretbloodline, a mixed-race Creole from New Orleans. You have almost nothing to do with Europe or Europeans.
4) You are NOT from any tan people anywhere. Your mixed-race is from a series of mixed-race liaisons all through your ancestral line.
5) Your designation as African-American is NOT from Blacks but from Whites, as are all injustices meted to you. So direct your anger towards Whites NOT Blacks.
6) You'd be recorded in history as an African-American, as a Black man, no matter what you do.
7) Black is very powerful and contains all the colors including white. Black is a very powerful and noble color - but "black people" are NOT black, just as whites are not white.
8} White people, including the French, perpetrated the most odious evils in human history and you really don't want any part of them
9) You are accepted by African-Americans as one of their own. No other large group will accept you like that - even Moroccans! You really have no where else to go.
10) in view of all the above you'll do well to adopt this advice below as it best serves you and your descendants.
All this is about facing reality instead of wishful thinking. About doing what's best for you and your descendants!

Secretbloodline:
The one drop rule was making European people of color into Black. Now there is nothing wrong with being an African but Black is used as a spiritual language term. It has a different meaning than just the ancestry label placed on Black. In the Middle East white is used as a symbol of purity by sayings that Prophet Muhammad had a white glowing face, this isn't a racial term but a spiritual term that means the Prophet Muhammad was a spiritually, righteous and moral man. Black was considered spiritually, morally dirty just as a traveler would be after being in the desert for a few days. The Arab had no concept of race they judged only by father's bloodline.

So what Malcolm X pointed out in the Webster's dictionary that white carried connotations of pure, good, clean and moral, whilst black meant impure, evil, dirty and immoral. So the Anglo-Saxons or British people created the binary system where pale skin was considered white and darker skin considered black. Now let that sink in.

Since Anglo-Saxons were a Protestant people they rejected the Catholic Church or protested the ridding of pagan traditions that conflicted with monotheistic doctrine they despised Catholics. My forefathers were the Catholics and they were darker skin or tan skinned people. Owning slaves conflicted with Christian doctrine so some people used the Curse of Ham to justify their owning slaves. Ham was supposed to have been cursed Black but its taken out of Middle Eastern concept of spiritual language and recreated into skin color. The Basques of Spain also helped craft these made up color race terms, or caste by denoting the lack of good spiritual qualities based solely upon skin color. Black became brutes and Browns became Savages. Anglo-Saxons began using black to define people of darker skin as spiritually impure and people with pale skin as white or spiritually pure. So instead of making the inner transformation by following the true Catholic doctrine Anglo-Saxons pivoted the meaning of good and evil around skin color. Everyone pale skin became suddenly good/white and everyone darker became black/evil.


This is where the One Drop Rule comes in right after the Civil War and the emancipation of African Americans. Now Creoles have been free people the entire time for centuries, even freeing Africans and integrating them into Catholicism and the community. Suddenly Anglos became aware that Creoles were the true Christians because our ancestors freed slaves out of religious piety just like benevolent Arabs who freed Africans by Islam. Anglos and so called Abollishonists only fought and ended slavery purely out of economic reasons not due to religious piety. So casting Creoles into the category of Black was a way of denying us our honor of being spiritually moral and righteous.

Robbing Creoles of our French heritage and turning us into pagan Africans that benevolent white people freed. It's called destiny swapping. King Louis becomes white or pale, the Franks become white or pale Germans, the Templars become white or pale. George Washington the founder of the United States becomes white or pale although he was tan skinned and had French ancestry. An abundance of history is rewritten and fake artwork created to complete the destiny swap.

Stop describing yourselves as Black because its being used against you. That's what Mr. Gani Adams the commander pointed out and other Yoruba leaders who figured out when they publicly rejected the Black Lives Matter. Black and White is a binary trick with black on the bottom as the burden bearer and scape goat for the white on top. Every time we use the classifications of race we empower those who benefit at the top. There is no such thing as race.

Granpa, let me spell it out for you so you don't stay confused, so you face REALITY and stop living in La La Land
1) You ARE an African-American. You are also a European-American but that part of you is not recognized in your country, USA.
It would be recognized if you were in, say, South Africa, but you're not!
2) All those dead people you keep hanging unto, De Frank, De France, De Clarke, De Gaul, St Louis, NONE of them would have accepted you if they were alive, just as American Whites will never accept you.
3) You are Secretbloodline, a mixed-race Creole from New Orleans. You have almost nothing to do with Europe or Europeans.
4) You are NOT from any tan people anywhere. Your mix-race is from a series of mixed-race liaisons all through your ancestral line.
5) Your designation as African-American is NOT from Blacks but from Whites, as are all injustices meted to you. So direct your anger towards Whites NOT Blacks.
6) You'd be recorded in history as an African-American, as a Black man, no matter what you do.
7) Black is very powerful and contains all the colors including white. Black is a very powerful and noble color - but "black people" are NOT black, just as whites are not white.
8} White people, including the French, perpetrated the most odious evils in human history and you really don't want any part of them
9) You are accepted by African-Americans as one of their own. No other large group will accept you like that - even Moroccans! You really have no where else to go.
10) in view of all the above you'll do well to adopt this advice below as it best serves you and your descendants.
All this is about facing reality instead of wishful thinking. About doing what's best for you and your descendants!

CanadaOrBust:
Non of those has to do with the soul. You can't compare any of those to trying to alter the very DNA of man

Removing harmful and disease-causing DNA is not altering the soul

Secretbloodline:
Creole People listed as slaves to family members were de facto free but lacked the freedom papers.

This is a lie. Read this below again carefully. Her own parternal grandfather had to be paid all that money to buy her freedom!

DiarisGodoo:
sercretbloodline if she was already free why did they pay so much money to buy her freedom? And how can you say a code that forced religion on people was good?

Exactly. Our guy is totally brainwashed, to the extent he sees black as white! Suppose the English monarch had mandated that all in their colonies must convert to Anglican?? People would been forced to leave their beloved churches including Roman Catholics! A code that says you can't marry who you love, etc. An English monarch would not have enacted such. The worst he did was taxation, he didn't go meddling in people's private lives and faith!

Secretbloodline:
Creole People listed as slaves to family members were de facto free but lacked the freedom papers. It's like People living in US without citizenship papers. These Creoles were free but not bonded. This especially happened after 1803 when the Anglos took over and wanted to prevent the growth of the free people of color communities. It wasn't the Code de Nior which created this predicament it was English law. The Code de Nior was a strict conversion to Catholicism which granted freedom and the English only cared about money. The English were anti Catholicism early on but later many slave owners converted when the Church got behind White Supremacy.

Once again, I want you to clearly agree with my points before we go further. Here they are again:
1) You do have African blood
2) You are NOT from mysterious tan people from France or Palestine or anywhere else.
3) You were manufactured right there in Louisiana through white folks basically raping African women
4) The original 1685 Code Noir was the most evil legal monstrosity ever actually put to paper by a monarch. If you know any other legal document more evil, let's hear it.

After that we'll then discuss Creole freedom. But bear in mind, this below mirrors the ancestry of just about all Louisiana Creoles!

Toolegit123:
Good day everyone.

There's this question I want to ask. Please can a woman choose a man whom she want to marry? Because there was a time I kept chasing my ex and she told me that I shouldn't pressure her,that shes the one who has the power to choose but I think she was wrong. From my own perspective so far,I think and believe it's a man who has the ability to choose the kind of woman he wants to settle down with and the time to do so.


So ,my brethren,what do you think about it ? Does a woman has the ability to choose the kind of man she wants to settle down with?

Nlfpmod obembet Dominique mynd44 Seun

It is "Does a woman HAVE" NOT "Does a woman HAS"

When it comes to sexual relationships it is young women that choose. They have all the power.

When it comes to marriage, it is men that choose (unless the man is in a hurry to get married)

Secretbloodline:
In all of these cases, just like in Louisiana or the Caribbean, the existence of a "Creole" space naturally fostered a distinct, highly resilient middle tier of free people of color who operated outside traditional indigenous or colonial structures.

The one huge difference between you and them is that they embrace their African heritage. They don't foolishly say they're from some mysterious tan people from Palestine, or try to turn King Louis olive and have him living in New Orleans!😅

Secretbloodline:
Those Creoles that claim Black aren't Creoles. A Creole is a Frankish or Spanish male born in the New World, specifically J2 and G2a haplagroup. We are typically very light skinned although dark skin and fair skinned Creole males exist. And you are correct the Anglos enforced the binary and inclusion of African Americans who are males of African E1b1ba and R1B Anglo into Creole communities. This is because of the shared family with the women. If the mother is Creole but the father is African American because of the matriarch culture of African American primary the child is labeled Creole. But trust me they're not Creoles and their spiritual inheritances are different from us who have the male lineage back to the Mediterranean Middle East. My forefathers have been Christians for almost since the time of Bishop Arias who lived in the 3rd century. My forefathers never raided and enslaved other people. That's the clear difference. Its not the look that I'm debating it's the spiritual bloodline. You clearly haven't understood my point that idolatry doesn't exist in my spirit and I have nothing against the physical qualities of West Africans.


You apparently have issues with light skinned men. And this can be summed up as your ancestors were idolaters just like the British people whose ancestors judged people upon appearance alone.


Dark skinned men and women aren't Creoles by standard and they don't look like our French ancestors but light skinned men and women do. Fair skinned Creoles are not standard Creoles and don't look like our French ancestors. Once you get out of the lying mindset and accept that the image of France isn't white you'd understand. Until then keep your bloody oath.

Below is the image of France, what French people look like, exactly as his contemporaries described King Louis IX: pale skin, blond hair, blue eyes. They don't look like you because they have no African mixture like you!
Stop claiming what is NOT yours while rejecting what is!

Secretbloodline:
Dark skinned men and women aren't Creoles by standard and they don't look like our French ancestors but light skinned men and women do. Fair skinned Creoles are not standard Creoles and don't look like our French ancestors. Once you get out of the lying mindset and accept that the image of France isn't white you'd understand. Until then keep your bloody oath.

Most idiotic and ridiculous of lies!
When even white couples do have black babies and black couples do have white babies - due to things like recessive ancestral genetic markers!

Stop claiming what is clearly NOT yours while rejecting what is!

Secretbloodline:
Those Creoles that claim Black aren't Creoles. A Creole is a Frankish or Spanish male born in the New World, specifically J2 and G2a haplagroup. We are typically very light skinned although dark skin and fair skinned Creole males exist. And you are correct the Anglos enforced the binary and inclusion of African Americans who are males of African E1b1ba and R1B Anglo into Creole communities. This is because of the shared family with the women. If the mother is Creole but the father is African American because of the matriarch culture of African American primary the child is labeled Creole. But trust me they're not Creoles and their spiritual inheritances are different from us who have the male lineage back to the Mediterranean Middle East. My forefathers have been Christians for almost since the time of Bishop Arias who lived in the 3rd century. My forefathers never raided and enslaved other people. That's the clear difference. Its not the look that I'm debating it's the spiritual bloodline. You clearly haven't understood my point that idolatry doesn't exist in my spirit and I have nothing against the physical qualities of West Africans.


You apparently have issues with light skinned men. And this can be summed up as your ancestors were idolaters just like the British people whose ancestors judged people upon appearance alone.


Dark skinned men and women aren't Creoles by standard and they don't look like our French ancestors but light skinned men and women do. Fair skinned Creoles are not standard Creoles and don't look like our French ancestors. Once you get out of the lying mindset and accept that the image of France isn't white you'd understand. Until then keep your bloody oath.

Stop LYING. See below

Secretbloodline:
It wasn't just the Europeans whom were mostly Anglos, but Sub Saharan Africans sold their own kind to Arabs, Moroccans and Ottomans. Sub Saharan Africans sold slaves like gas stations sell gas today.

At least they had no choice. If someone has guns and you have arrows, you have no choice. What was the excuse of the totally evil, soulless Europoeans for compelling and facilitating it, middle passage, and horrific conditions of slavery itself? And stop shamelessly trying to cover for the most inhuman of them all - the French. If it were entirely up to the French slavery would never have ended. They were hoping against hope it came back - only repealing the monstrousity called Code Noir May this year!

Secretbloodline:
**Genetic Profile of Creole Populations: Paternal (J2/J1/G2a) & Maternal Lineages (Lx/L3/European/Indigenous)**

### **Paternal Haplogroups in Creole Men:**
- *Dominant Mediterranean/Middle Eastern lineages*:
> - **J1/J2**: Common among Sephardic Jews, North Africans, and Levantine groups…
>> - **G2a**: Found in Greek/Turkish regions.

### ***Maternal Haplogroups in Creole Women***
A mix of:
> - *Sub-Saharan African* origins (**L0-L5**, especially L3): Traced to West/Central Africa…
>> With smaller percentages showing *European maternal DNA* (**H/V/J*) or Indigenous American markers! *(Source: Caribbean Genetics Studies)*

What is this gibberish? We're talking Louisiana Creoles of color like yourself. Why are you lyingly posting Caribbean??

Your people, Louisiana Creoles of Color, were
mostly created through the coercively oppressive concubinage system (basically legalized rape system) instituted by the French, called Placage! Whereby whites have unlimited access to the private parts of black women without ever having to marry them!

DMCA:
delulu good morning
what colour is it today?

Top of the Morning to you Yaba.
My panties today are a bit above you.
Turquoise. Do yiu know what is turquoise?

Secretbloodline:
Now who is upset? Yet when using the same AI generated answers against Creoles you don't mind.

Yet I know and you know that these facts draw credible conclusions.

Who is upset? Upset about what? Just stating a fact doesn't mean you're upset. European slave traders were obviously evil and soulless.
About Creoles, all I said is they all have African blood - an obvious fact

DiarisGodoo:
I transferred to LSU, a white college, from our Southern University which was black. I started dating white girls and we eventually drifted apart.
Yeah, people tend to believe anything in print without considering for a minute that something in print can also be a well-crafted lie, or that the writer doesn’t know the truth himself. The funny thing is that they will see polished people from same Africa here in America yet still continue to believe they live in trees in Africa. Such is the power of the printed word.

Like I said, lucky guy, you. Keep projecting a good image for us. As for Secretbloodline, he has a totally warped view of things. Do you kmow he has never been anywhere near Africa. Everything he's misinforming about he got from print - print of the most dubious kinds!

Secretbloodline:
Stop lying.

I'm not you that has no African blood - the mother of all STUPID lies!

Secretbloodline:
Here are the specific facts about the Badagry slave trade and the items housed in its historic museum, as documented by the museum's chief guide:

### The Exchange System (Barter Trade)
Before the slave trade escalated, Europeans originally arrived in West Africa seeking gold, ivory, and diamonds. As the transatlantic slave trade developed, it operated heavily on "trade by barter"—the direct exchange of properties and goods.

European traders brought foreign items to Africa and bargained using a strict valuation system for human souls:
* **One Umbrella**: Exchanged for **40 human lives**. Enslaved individuals were forced to carry these heavy umbrellas for hours; if they misplaced or dropped them, they faced immediate execution. The museum houses the only surviving umbrella from this trade.
* **A Bottle of Gin**: Exchanged for **10 human lives**.
* **A Bottle of Wine**: Exchanged for **10 human lives**.
* **Long Cannons**: Exchanged for **100 human lives**.
* **Short Cannons**: Exchanged for **40 human lives**.
* **Ceramic Bowls**: Ten ceramic bowls were traded for **10 human lives**.

### Living Conditions and Confinement
* **The Cells**: Captives were held in the "Brazilian Barracoon" (meaning a slave prison/sale store) while awaiting the arrival of white slave masters. The compound contained 40 cells.
* **Extreme Crowding**: Each cell measured just **9 by 9 feet** with a single, tiny window providing virtually no ventilation.
* **Total Capacity**: Exactly **40 captives** were packed into each tiny room, bringing the compound's total capacity to **1,600 people**. Because there were no facilities, captives had to relieve themselves inside the cells. Many quickly suffocated and died from the extreme heat and stench.
* **Rations**: Captives were only granted access to food and water **once a day**. Up to 50 people were forced to bend down and drink simultaneously from a single open water basin. In the desperate struggle to drink, captives would cut themselves on the sharp edges, spilling blood into the shared water, which they had no choice but to keep drinking.

### Methods of Control and Torture
* **Neck Locks**: Captives wore heavy iron neck chains and were forced to labor on farms with them for **18 hours every day**. They also wore these heavy neck chains continuously for **3 to 4 months** while traveling across the Atlantic.
* **Mouth Clips / Padlocks**: To prevent captives from talking to one another or eating the cash crops while working the farms, traders used iron "mouth clips" that pierced and parlocked the upper and lower lips together.
* **Ankle Iron (The Anno)**: Heavy iron shackles bound the legs of two captives together—the right foot of one to the left foot of another—forcing them to walk and work in lockstep at all times.
* **Slave Branding**: Captives were stripped of their names and forced to take their master's name. For permanent identification, iron branding stamps were heated in open fire and pressed directly onto the captive's back to burn the master's initials into the flesh.
* **Suspension Torture**: For stubborn captives, an iron cuff was forced onto their hand—often breaking the wrist bone in the process. The mechanism used a screw system attached to a tall platform or tree to suspend the captive completely off the ground until they died.
* **Attack Dogs**: High-ranking domestic slave overseers used trained attack dogs taught to tear out the throats of captives who resisted. If a captive managed to kill a dog, masters simply released more dogs to overpower them.

### The Point of No Return
Captives were marched from the slave port across the Badagry River (Lagos Lagoon) to a peninsula known as the **Point of No Return**. From the seashore, small canoes ferried them out to massive ships waiting in the high seas.

Out of pure greed, captains heavily overloaded the ships. If a ship became bogged down in the high sea, or if sharks began trailing and disturbing the vessel, crew members would **throw living tied captives directly into the ocean** to lighten the weight or distract the marine predators.

These are things brought by evil, soulless Europeans. Things that were NOT in any way indigenous to Nigeria nor in existence before their arrival! These are the people you praise and defend, instead of being disgusted that they contributed part of your DNA!

CanadaOrBust:
666 is not just about putting marks on people. It is about thwarting the natural order of things

So why do you thwart the natural order of things by wearing clothes, limiting number of births, flying in planes, etc. Why do we do things that enhance humanity??

Secretbloodline:
Why you say us, like everyone there supports your lies? When you say that there's no corruption in Nigeria then you silence the voices of those who suffering injustice from corruption in Nigeria. That's what your ancestors did they silenced any voices that slave raiding was wrong until darkness consumed the land and colonialism happened.

U ok? Who said there was no corruption in Nigeria? I said there was never American-style slavery anywhere in Nigeria!

Dennisochampa:
Is that so??
Eyah
Trump made USA look weak.
The war was unnecessary but ego and pride no to let am stop the madness.
Now American people have to pay for yet another needless war.....
American lives are lost....
This is sad to be honest and I feel so sad for the American people.
U Wan follow pigs like Iran fight?
People wen no first value lives....
What do you expect? A walk in the park without getting ruffled?

Stop switching accounts!!! Nobody cares! It's not that serious!

Secretbloodline:
### Confronting the Shadows of Prestige: A Re-examination of the Igbo Slave Trade

History is rarely a neat tapestry of heroes and villains. More often, it is an intricate web of human ambition, cultural blind spots, and uncomfortable truths. This complexity is precisely what Nigerian journalist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani brought to light when she courageously opened her family archives to reveal the life of her great-grandfather, Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku—a man of immense stature, cultural reverence, and a prolific trader of human beings.

In the late 19th century, within the hinterlands of southeastern Nigeria, the acquisition of human cargo was not viewed through the lens of modern moral tragedy. Instead, it was treated as the ultimate metric of power. When a trader successfully captured or sold a captive, it was treated not with shame, but as a triumph of the highest order. Local praise singers would weave the trader’s exploits into song, celebrating his cunning and strength much like they would a warrior returning from a victorious battle, a wrestler who conquered the arena, or a hunter who felled a lion.

> "In that era, human trafficking brought immense riches, which funded grand community feasts and elevated family legacies."

While the specific mechanics of these transactions relied on agents and networks spanning from the interior to coastal ports like Calabar and Bonny, the cultural landscape surrounding it was steeped in local tradition. Major business successes and celebrations of status in Igbo society were inherently communal events. They were marked by the rhythmic pulse of traditional music, the gathering of elders, and the sharing of palm wine. The wealth generated from this trade did more than just line pockets; it purchased European luxury imports, funded elaborate title-taking ceremonies, and cemented a family’s aristocracy under the administrative gaze of the British Royal Niger Company.

Yet, this prestige carried a devastating human cost. Those who were not marched to the coast to fill the hulls of ships bound for Brazil or Cuba remained as domestic laborers—or worse, became ultimate status symbols, sacrificed at religious rituals or buried alive to serve their masters in the afterlife.

By pulling back the curtain on how effortlessly cruelty can be wrapped in the garments of cultural celebration, Nwaubani’s reflections force a vital dialogue. They remind us that history must be examined with an unyielding gaze, recognizing that the systems we celebrate today may become the reckonings of tomorrow.

Please research diligently and come tell us where the slaves were hiding in Nigeria pre-colonial times.

Because we know for a fact:
There were no slaves in Hausaland
Tere were no slaves in Igboland
There were no slaves in Yorubaland

So please, go to the library and do serious research and come tell us where these slaves (and homosexuals, according to you) were hiding!

Secretbloodline:
### Confronting the Shadows of Prestige: A Re-examination of the Igbo Slave Trade

History is rarely a neat tapestry of heroes and villains. More often, it is an intricate web of human ambition, cultural blind spots, and uncomfortable truths. This complexity is precisely what Nigerian journalist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani brought to light when she courageously opened her family archives to reveal the life of her great-grandfather, Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku—a man of immense stature, cultural reverence, and a prolific trader of human beings.

In the late 19th century, within the hinterlands of southeastern Nigeria, the acquisition of human cargo was not viewed through the lens of modern moral tragedy. Instead, it was treated as the ultimate metric of power. When a trader successfully captured or sold a captive, it was treated not with shame, but as a triumph of the highest order. Local praise singers would weave the trader’s exploits into song, celebrating his cunning and strength much like they would a warrior returning from a victorious battle, a wrestler who conquered the arena, or a hunter who felled a lion.

> "In that era, human trafficking brought immense riches, which funded grand community feasts and elevated family legacies."

While the specific mechanics of these transactions relied on agents and networks spanning from the interior to coastal ports like Calabar and Bonny, the cultural landscape surrounding it was steeped in local tradition. Major business successes and celebrations of status in Igbo society were inherently communal events. They were marked by the rhythmic pulse of traditional music, the gathering of elders, and the sharing of palm wine. The wealth generated from this trade did more than just line pockets; it purchased European luxury imports, funded elaborate title-taking ceremonies, and cemented a family’s aristocracy under the administrative gaze of the British Royal Niger Company.

Yet, this prestige carried a devastating human cost. Those who were not marched to the coast to fill the hulls of ships bound for Brazil or Cuba remained as domestic laborers—or worse, became ultimate status symbols, sacrificed at religious rituals or buried alive to serve their masters in the afterlife.

By pulling back the curtain on how effortlessly cruelty can be wrapped in the garments of cultural celebration, Nwaubani’s reflections force a vital dialogue. They remind us that history must be examined with an unyielding gaze, recognizing that the systems we celebrate today may become the reckonings of tomorrow.

He doesn't even see he's contradicting himself.
How is this PRE-COLONIAL Nigeria? Though these are mostly lies impressed upon a young lady, but assuming they are true, WERE THEY NOT CONDITIONS CREATED BY EUROPEANS AND THEIR INSATIABLE GREED FOR HUMAN CARGO?? You have already been shown that conditions of enslaved people with the French were so horrific that they quickly died and they needed constant fresh supplies!

Please watch this video by a White American carefully before responding further (and the truth is, he didn’t even say half of it)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cq6IfPTMHXP/?igsh=MTA1cGFzNG94MzQ0cg==

DMCA:
delulu

Our boy, Mr Yaba Left

DiarisGodoo:
Pure fiction written here in US by someone reading books and has no first-hand knowledge of Nigeria. Or someone deliberately making things up. Lagos became important with arrival of outsiders because it was close to the sea, and everything you written relates to that arrival.

See how in US you talk about whose ancestor was born free or slave, ever wonder why there is no such talk in Nigeria? Because everyone was born free! Nobody's ancestors were slaves! Think about it, all the captured people who were returned to Nigeria at end of slave trade (but not slavery) nobody enslaved them. Ever wonder why? Because it was not in our culture to enslave people and many of them went on to become pillars of society.

Thank you! I'll tag more people, maybe if enough tell him he'll finally get it through his skull that there was zero slavery (defined as American-style slavery) in precolonial core West Africa!

DiarisGodoo:
I am in Southern US right now, very close to where you write about. In fact my very first girlfriend (who almost worshipped me because I was the best in Physics class) was a light-skinned Creole. We met in Physics class and she was the first persin I heard the word "Creole" from. You must be an old person because the current generation don't think like this. She would say almost everything you writing here is a lie.

I saw OP already told you there were no slaves before arrival of Europeans. He is right. Whoever was writing what you posted never experienced Wrst Africa before arrival of outsiders.

Lucky guy. What broke you two up? You still in touch with her?
As for Secretbloodline, he doesn't realize how ridiculous he sounds. It never occurs to him that if any society were half as bad as the liars paint, African societies would not have survived 100 years, talkless of thousands of years

DMCA:
imagine u in d late 1800s working on my father's cotton field.

The crimes that were committed were unimaginable. Which is probably why Secretbloodline is so messed up and caught in a bloodline loop - his punishment for having some of his DNA come from soulless rapist enslavers!

DMCA:
if to say i be white man with u working on my cotton farm, I for been d deposit for ur bank steady too

Of course. That's how Secretbloodline ancestors came about and he just can't make peace with it. He has to manufacture "tan people from Europe"!😅

Secretbloodline:
### Echoes of Èkó: War, Bloodlines, and the Crucible of Modern Lagos

To look upon the glittering, kinetic expanse of modern Lagos is to witness a masterpiece of human convergence. Yet, beneath the vibrant rhythms of Nigeria’s economic heartbeat lies a foundation forged in the alchemist's fire of pre-colonial empires. Long before it was a global mega-city, Lagos—then known as Èkó—was a strategic prize, a coastal theater where the Kingdom of Benin, the Oyo Empire, and the fierce militarism of Dahomey vied for dominance.

In this era of shifting borders, captivity was the raw currency of power. Dominant regional empires systematically subjugated local sub-ethnic groups—the indigenous Awori, the coastal Popo (Egun), and the inland Ijebu and Egba. The stories of these ancestors are woven directly into the biological tapestry of the people who walk the streets of Lagos today.

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### The Gendered Shadow of Captivity: Systemic Violence and Sovereignty

History often records the movements of armies and the exchange of crowns, but the truest, most intimate ledger of pre-colonial warfare was written on the bodies of captive women. While male prisoners of war were frequently routed toward grueling agricultural labor, ritual sacrifice, or the devastating currents of the transatlantic trade, female captives faced a distinct, highly gendered form of systemic vulnerability.

Within the grand compounds of wealthy warlords and the sprawling palaces (Afin) of regional kings, these women were integrated as domestic concubines through what can only be described as a normalized infrastructure of structural rape.

* **The Erasure of Customary Protections:** In traditional West African societies, a legitimate marriage required the payment of a bride price (Owo Ori) to the woman's family. This exchange was not merely financial; it was a sacred legal contract that bound a woman’s birth family to her defense. Because captive women were violently severed from their kin, masters could access them sexually without paying a bride price. This stripped them of all traditional human rights, leaving them with no kinship shield against physical, psychological, or sexual abuse.
* **Reproductive Exploitation:** This sexual violence was highly strategic. The children born of these forced unions were vital to the expansion of a master’s household, inflating both his domestic agricultural workforce and his future military ranks.

THE CRUCIBLE OF LAGOASIAN IDENTITY

[ Benin Aristocracy ] [ Indigenous Awori ]
│ │
└──────────────┬───────────────┘
▼
[ BENIN-AWORI MIXTURE ]
(Modern Lagos Ruling Class)
│
├◄─── [ Hinterland Refugees ] (Egba / Ijebu)
│
├◄─── [ Transatlantic Returnees ] (Saro / Aguda)
▼
【 MODERN LAGOSIAN LINEAGE 】

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### The Distinct Plight: Captive Women vs. Atlantic Creoles

To truly understand the profound trauma of the pre-colonial African slave caste, their plight must be distinguished from that of Free People of Color or Atlantic Creoles.

Across the Atlantic world—from Paris and New Orleans to Sierra Leone and the trading ports of the West African coast—Creoles and Free People of Color occupied a unique, privileged middle tier. Many were born free, descended from European traders and local African elite women. They possessed wealth, formal literacy, international networks, and legal recognition. They were active agents in commerce, often acting as the very brokers who negotiated the sale of captives.

In stark contrast, the internal captive women of the Lagos hinterlands possessed no such mobility. Their reality was one of absolute, unmediated subjugation. They could not appeal to colonial courts, invoke international trade laws, or rely on mercantile wealth to buy their freedom. While a Creole woman might navigate high society with a degree of bodily autonomy and social prestige, a captive woman in a warlord's compound was legally classified as an object.

Her identity was systematically erased, her labor was entirely uncompensated, and her womb was treated as a tool of state-building for the very empire that had slaughtered her original family.

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### The Alchemical Blend: How War Rewrote the Tribal Map

As the 18th and 19th centuries progressed, the geopolitical landscape of the Yoruba hinterland fractured, sending shockwaves down to the Lagos lagoon. The collapse of the Oyo Empire sparked decades of devastating civil wars, setting off a massive migration of displaced peoples and captured souls. This chaotic displacement effectively acted as a historical crucible, blending distinct tribal identities into something entirely new.

* **The Benin-Awori Synthesis:** When the forces of the Oba of Benin secured Èkó in the 16th century, soldiers and nobles settled among the indigenous Awori. Through centuries of forced concubinage and political intermarriage with Awori women, a distinct ruling elite emerged. This explains why the modern traditional aristocracy of Lagos—the Oba and his White Cap Chiefs—retain Benin court customs, royal attire, and titles to this day, even while speaking the Yoruba language.
* **The Fusion of the Estate Communities:** In the vast agricultural plantations (Rinji) and transit camps surrounding the lagoon, captives from rival factions—Egba, Ijebu, Ijesha, and Oyo—were forced into intimate, crowded cohabitation. Stripped of their specific geography, these families intermarried and bore children. The old, fierce tribal rivalries melted away in the shared experience of survival, crystallizing into a unified coastal, metropolitan identity.
* **The Badagry Borderlands:** Along the western corridors, the relentless pressure of Dahomean raids created a highly resilient, bilingual population. Here, Popo (Ogu) and Yoruba lineages mixed constantly through capture and assimilation, creating fluid communities that defied rigid ethnic categorizations.
* **The Return of the Diaspora:** The tapestry gained its final, intricate layers in the 19th century with the arrival of the Saro (Sierra Leonean) and Aguda (Brazilian and Cuban) freedmen. Ironically, these returning Creoles and Free People of Color intermarried with the local population, blending their elite status with the bloodlines of those who had survived domestic captivity on the continent.

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Unfortunately for the liars and twisters of history, through oral tradition and direct experience we now know the approximate truth, we now know they totally manufactured narratives to hide or justify their extreme devilishness and soulless inhumanity.
My friend, your African female ancestor was RAPED (coercive sex is still rape) by soulless enslavers. That's how you came about. Your ridiculous lies impresses exactly nobody.

Your warped view of precolonial Nigeria is not accidental. It was deliberately planted to justify rape of your mothers and how lucky they were!