₦airaland Forum

salford1:
Watching from Canada
Whatever goes on down south affects us.
Our PM taking the knee.

my admiration for justin Trudeau,he is one of the few gentlemen in power. calm and smart even his policies are equally nice.

EdiskyHarry:
This is the biggest problem we have in Nigeria, we are always talking about the next election, forgetting about all the problem we are facing now

you know it is shameful because if the leaders are the ones having this conversation,it won't be surprising because Nigerian leaders have always been self centered and useless,but when the masses who are suppose to know better are the ones fighting for who should be their next oppressor,then you know just how hopeless the nation has become.

FarahAideed:
Only a fool will think Tinubu can ever be president , he doesn't even look presidential... Tinubu should be grateful fortune favored him in Lagos and not ask for more

most times I see world leaders the way the talk and act you'll know they have something to offer, only in Nigeria will you see people who feel entitled to power, not because of their contribution to growth or knowledge.I don't think tinubu can lead Nigeria too, buhari has failed why can't we just put all this shameless men aside and just do what is right for once.

Dpharisee:
This is the picture of Felix Terungwa Dav aka MANNABBQGRILL from his Facebook page.
His annoying posts made us to expose him

so nah manna whatever be this.always kissing buhari's ass

salford1:
More...

I know he is far from perfect, I am not saying he doesn't get things wrong,but every time they always focus on what is wrong about him,but the same standard was not been used on his predecessor.Obama had many flaws too but people rarely talk about that,I am not a big fan of him,I just want people to keep same energy when the discussion is centered around their favs.

salford1:
He is using his hands to destroy the country by himself. He would tweet violence then go and hide inside white house bunker. When he comes out, he does so with a battalion of cops and secret service.

Difference between a President and a Dictator below. Whose side would you be on?

your photo description does not truly illustrate the reality,Obama was a black man who was highly supported by the black community, he has his flaws have you ever seen black people criticise anything about him, but with trump its not the same,they hate him even before he became president,you don't expect him to march alongside protesters.I agree with you that his words should have been carefully curated.

Anazp:
Why do Nigerian youths like to celebrate their oppressors? I mean in a sane Country this man would have been in jail

Nigerians are some of the most hypocritical people on earth,when you stand for nothing you'll fall for everything, if you open another topic now about the growth of say china, their next tune will be "God punish all Nigeria leaders" and then you post another topic of a Nigerian leader they'll begin their usual hailing,then after that it goes into a tribal warfare.see what makes Nigeria a little bit hopeless is not even the government, but the stupid and Stockholmed masses.

laiperi:
You guys are so ignorant it is unbelievable.

The same Diaspora Africans helped you write and brainstormed on independence and constitution from Ghana, Nigeria to East and South Africa.

Ask about Dubois in Ghana and Alexander in Nigeria.

look there is nothing morally wrong in protesting injustice, but Nigerians don't even speak up enough on any of our national issues, but when you see them speaking up about something from the outside world,you need to question the motive,is it truly for justice? or just to be a part of the bandwagon.

TruthHurts100:
Because no be your brother or papa dem kill.

look as much as it is tragic some of this people are private citizens you can't just go about destroying their businesses you can talk about govt establishment because the govt has money and you want to pass a strong message, not everyone may have insurance.

how will they be caught,don't offer false hope to people, how many of our streets have CCTV,where there any eye witness, do you have any DNA evidence or fingerprint evidence?do you even have the tech for such?if yes do you have a database to crosscheck result? do we have an emergency call line?what is the average response time of the police.

buhari would be very pleased with this comparison, but the truth is it is blasphemy to compare trump with buhari,please trump has not fallen that low to be compared to buhari

TheGodlessGod:
i know bro I'm just teasing, nigeria is a very useless country and I'm so ashamed very ashamed

thank you,we need to be ashamed as a country,most people don't even know what has been stolen from them,shame catch me too

TheGodlessGod:
those are tiny compare to nigerian universities

bros please you can't even compare, that's you bringing sticks to a gun fight,let's focus on our failed govt and stop making excuses for them.

Elipsis:
Nairaland thrives on ethnicity and tribal bashing.

Seun loves it, that's why he doesn't censor these comments.

Sadly Seun has failed to realise that there is only an extent to which Nairaland can grow. For a forum that started since 2006, it should have been coming close to Facebook and others.

But this is 2020 and we are still arguing which tribe is better over a post that doesn't even have the slightest coloration of tribalism.

its really terrible, we can do better,how do we move forward as a nation?with such mindset.

martowskin1:
Funny enough this are young men who are suppose to be leaders 2moro...

Its a pity... Seun u need to do something about this tribal issue in ur forum... Ur forum is disuniting young people

do you know I never knew Nigerians were this divided and tribalistic until I came across nairaland,its safe to say this forum is their safe heaven. its shameful to see grown men engage in something so shameful as ethnic hate,in a world where young individuals are changing the universe,only individuals who have little or nothing to aspire to in life engage in something so shameful, you know even the individual they are fighting about I saw an article where he talked about being nigerian.not being Igbo or Yoruba,seun needs to step up because the ethnic hate is so predictable and tiring

AkataWoman:
Here's a VIDEO of Trump saying that BLACK AMERICANS BUILT THIS NATION THROUGH GENERATIONS OF BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS.

Even white people in America know we built this. By this way, this video is from THE WHITE HOUSE.

Now build your nation.

https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/videos/president-trump-african-americans-built-this-nation/420043458869755/

I am not saying that African Americans didn't contribute to the growth of America,as an outsider when people talk about America the major perception that comes to mind aside racism,slavery and all that,they talk about Hollywood, silicon valley,wall street, the moon landing ,capitalism,the nations military,Harvard and other ivy league colleges,we all know who are the major players in these industries, even the nations economy is a a result of sound economic policies of founding leaders.

imhotep:
1. Return the land you stole.
2. Pay the reparations you owe African-Americans.
3. Support race-mixing and diversity.

Then you can come and tell us about your superior NAZI genes

Cc khia

hmm you got some nice points but I don't think they can return the land.but they can always promote equality and fairness.

ModestGal:
Sorry, it was history that said it not me. Please read about criteria for buying a slave

I don't think the criteria could have been based on iQ

imhotep:
America belongs to the Native Americans, it was never a "White" country.

but the white immigrants built most of america to what it is today,what makes a nation is it just the landmass or the institutions?

ModestGal:
I love the Black People so much, they have this ve strong spirit, they fought so many battles and won, they fought for their rights.
This has made me believe that the slave trade took the best of the best from Africans.

slavery did not take the best of the best of anything.blacks in America are not better than Africans,morally or intellectually.

annex1:
Did you read the original article and how he cited the most recent racial abuses of AAs in America in first few paragraphs? Advise the Boss Gerrard to re-dissect his opinions and create seperate threads accordingly for what Africans face abroad and what AAs face in America. That is if you speak for him.

I cant comment on incidences regarding sufferings of Nigerians in China, Italy or indonesia for example because I dont have the facts or truth. Maybe in those cases, his "development of Africa and "RICHNESS" of Africans race" might be a solution.

But telling AAs who have God knows how many mixed Asian, European, American, Jamaican and African Genes in their geneology but just because their skins end up being and looking black to return to develop Africa to remedy Anti-Black Racism is absurd. People whose fore generation have owned properties and businesses for generations and generations in America who fought and died for Black American rights on American soil to return to Africa? My brother think again.

I understand your argument.

annex1:
When and where have people been shown extreme Racism because their race / people is generally poor? As in the case of Africans that you speak of. I know of religion, I know skin color, taking up all the jobs etc as reason but poverty? Provide a link I'll love to be educated.

Building a developed African continent is primarily Africans in Africa's business and how doing so will command respect for them, and it is a welcome idea.

But it has no relation whatsoever to the struggles and the Anti-Black Racism AAs in the united states undergo. They have contributed equally to the development of America as a country and continent as any other race in the United States has and so they must reap.

I am not just talking about African Americans in America but also about other blacks like the Africans who were discriminated in China recently,I get the fact that the African American struggle in America is different from other discrimination blacks face,but we if we as a continent grow to become developed I believe it will provide a positive collective image

annex1:
African American poverty rate is 20% while Native Americans have 25.4% with Hispanics at 17.6%
https://www.povertyusa.org/facts

Yet we see Native Americans enjoying peace with the police and dont end up being treated with contempt unlike AAs.
Can you provide me one single case of Racism where wealth exacerbated it.
The Jews have always been hardworking and wealthy yet endured anti semitism (racism) even in America.And no holocaust denials as 96% of Americans are aware of the facts of the Holocaust. Yet Antisemitism abound. How did the wealth help?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_United_States

Armenians had lived in Turkey and achieved status and wealth in the Ottoman Empire, as a community but they were never accorded more than "second-class citizen".
By 1915 over 2 million were massacred in the Armenian genocide.
Again I ask, how did their wealth save them?

Please point me to any repository and instance where the wealth of a people's race or ethnicity saved them from already established Racism.
European Americans have also experienced racism is America. Has Europe ever been poor?

Racism is pure hate. No matter how rich you are, you are not wanted. You are to be prejudiced. Never to be seen as "entirely equal" That is what AAs face.
Discuss the importance of development of Africa but dont suggest it as a panacea for Anti - Black Racism in America.

I get your point but people hate for different reasons some just by the colour of your skin others based on other factors,I think building a developed continent will go a long way in reducing discrimination against blacks,yes it may not completely eradicate racism but it will greatly improve our image and we get a developed society which is a win win.

annex1:
Racism or profiling has nothing to do with wealth.

Kanye west said this
"You see its broke nigga racism, that's that - Dont touch anything in the store"
"You see its rich nigga racism, that's that - Come back please buy more"

Needing the money and nothing more.

Christian Cooper who was potentially accused by a white woman who instantly knew to evoke centuries of caste privilege as a white woman and endanger the life of a black man is a Havard graduate who has worked as a comic writer and editor for Marvel. Nope doesnt sound like a poor individual.

There is also a footage of Florida’s only Black state attorney Aramis Ayala being pulled over by police for no reason because she was racially profiled.

Also realise there is anti-black racism, anti-asian racism and anti-Arab racism. Yet, historically, it’s black people who have most often found themselves at the bottom of the pile - maybe because of the days of massa and picking cotton on plantations.

In Brazil, black people (not immigrants but black brazilians) are treated as second class citizens.
Also in India, students of african descents are also persecuted.

According to the UK government’s race disparity audit, relative to whites and Asians, black defendants at crown court were the most likely to be remanded in custody. Between 2017 and 2018, black people in Britain were approximately 10 times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police than white people were, and three times more likely than Asians. (That is from the guardian no be me talk am)

I also wish to not remind you that black Americans from various economic classes in America having also American passports are at the receiving ends of racism and police brutality.

If you have a black skin, you are not racially abused because your social status is lower cadre or from a poor country. Nobody knows this until you are spoken to. YOU ARE RACIALLY ABUSED BECAUSE OF SKIN COLOR!

So except you are a very rich and popular black person which I'm sure you know all cannot be, expect good reception, politeness from people prolly because of your money. But like I said, racism has nothing to do with wealth.

I believe the op countered your argument when he said that for blacks to gain respect a minority of the population need to rise above poverty, he also made reference to Botswana having a better economic stats to Brazil,but Brazil gets more respect in the global community.

ednut1:
different history. Chinese and arabs were not slaves for 400 years like black Americans. How can blacks be rich when its a whites man's world

there are so many people who have had it worse,when you talk of slavery in this day, its partly due to the fact that we haven't lived up to our potentials, the Jews suffered more damaging discrimination but today they are Jews are some of the most successful people on earth and when they talk about the Holocaust,it from a historical perspective, but when blacks talk about slavery and colonialism, its like we have found an excuse for our collective failure,you say it is a white man's world but some of the world's largest economies are in asia, while the Arabs are making use of their resources in building nice cities,everything the op said is true,we can be better as a nation a continent,and a race.

Goldenheart:
I am still looking for who to teach me how to ride bike

me too lol

2special:
The one l watched, that won #10 million used all the 3 options...the last question he answered was about a Nobel prize winner which he called his uncle and the uncle gave him the correct answer....such a brilliant guy

yes I think the question was about matai wangari the Kenyan Nobel prize winner.

Hoephase:
Grading Buhari is like grading the examination script of a nursery 3 pupil that chose to sit for GCE exams.

lol nah straight f9

ledamaster:
who dash monkey banana, Haiti was founded by rebelious slaves that took over the tiny slave out post and rebelious slaves that took over slave ships and stired them to the tiny island. Yoruba slaves are not known to be rebelous, Igboloid groups frm South East are legendary for that. A substantial number of folks in the caribian carry igboloid genes, admit their Igbo ancestary and still have igbo words incorporated to their street lingua. Words like Unu, which means you all in Igbo is still used in the caribeans.

u funny sha lol @igboloid gene.is there any thing like that,and BTW wetin Yoruba people do you

Ayo8:
For how long will they keep fighting the american system..? from sitting at the back seats in a bus, to right to vote, to police brutality etc... Nothing is impossible, they know their origin... the only reason why they will keep holding back is because of the bad media projected about Africa. They need to safe their future generations from these unpleasant experiences...
Majority of them don't even know that Africa is a continent and not a country...

but are we any better in africa? while there is racial discrimination in the west, we have much more issues to deal with here,I feel for them,we can all do better.

psyco:
It seems South Africa is the only African country on their list, they just managed to include Nigeria

def jam is a majorly hip hop/rap record label, and south Africa has the best rap industry in Africa

Charmingrascal:
Casper Nyovest is positive energy
He is one of the few South Africans that genuinely love Nigeria acts


Papa Ifeanyi to the World
Papa Ifeanyi the real Odogwu
Wizkid the only International star boy


Burna Boy baby giant, Fela wanna be.

true I love his pan Africanism dude is always celebrating African art irrespective of nationality, max respect to Cassper nyovest and davido too