bushdoc9919:
Here is the amusing thing about this article.....

There is a tendency in African countries to blame the white man.This is best summarized in a story Nelson Mandela told of his prison days. One Sunday, Mandela and his prison mates had a visit from an Afrikaans preacher. (This was not the first time said cleric had preached to them). The cleric in the course of his message jokingly stated that the difference between the Blacks and the Whites was that when the Whites have a problem, they sit down and work out a solution; blacks on the other hand...blame the whites.

I find this article very sad....and untruthful.. and unhelpful. Now, I do not like the PDP, and I wish they get voted out this election, but that is not the reason for my hate towards this article.

Recently, I was thinking about four counties....Germany, Japan, Iraq and Libya. All these countries have one thing in common....they were bombed and wrecked by America(in collabo with others) at some point in their lives....then occupied by the same Americans. Ten years later....Germany(both West and East) and Japan....were on the way to development. Iraq is still a mess.

Now, the usual reasons given for Iraq's mess is that it is a CIA plot to destabilse the Arab world...to protect Israel. But something tells me that the CIA does not have a hand in this. Iraq is destabilsed because Iraquis are not a good people. They do not like each other, they hurt each other and they kill and maim each other. All in a bid for power. Somehow.....I raquis are not willing to work together for the common good...unless they are in power. This has nothing to do with Iraq being an amalgam....Germany itself is an amalgam(formed 1871)...yet in the wake of WW2...Germans did not go round killing each other in the name of resisting the occupation the way Iraquis and Libyans are doing.Neither did the Japanese. It isn't because the world powers favored white nations; German reunification almost did not happen because many of the same world powers feared a united Germany, and Japan, on the other hand is not a white nation....they are Asians.

The problem with us Nigerians, and Iraqis and Libyans is that we do not like to take responsibility for our mistakes. We think that we are OK. The fact of the matter is that we are not. Key to Germany and Japan's rebuilding was an acceptance of the fact that they were wrong. The average Nigerian on the other hand blames others....including his own countrymen for his misfortunes. Recently, one man and his wife were arrested for abusing their child. Reason for abuse.....the child was held responsible for the man's lack of sucess in life. Now....if that man had been white...he would have blamed his lack of knowledge .....and would have sought out knowledge to become rich....even going back to school to acheive his dream, or putting himself under a mentor who has made it. But in Nigeria....we blame other people. Apparently it is the fault of the witch/the enemy tribe/etc that we are not prospering.

I am going to close by offering my advice to the OP......and to everyone reading this. We are not a good people. We are a bad people. Boko Haram and the economic disaster we find ourselves in are collectively our fault.It is high time we started doing solutions.....like revamping our education system, by spending more on power and mass public trrasport, by realisng we are a bigoted people...and taking steps to end that bigotry, and by refusing to blame the other guy.

This goes beyond politics my friends.....it is time we stopped blaming America....and blamed ourselves. It is time we stopped blaming other tribes...and blamed ourselves. We have brains....I suggest we use them.