[b]It seems no one informed some of you young people making statements such as, "you are ashamed of being Nigerians because of the behaviour of these girls ", that it has been established in the Black Movement, and well known in most Nigerian cultures(Tribs) that it is  inferior sentiment to want to tailor your behaviour in order to be liked.  The type of people labelled COONS were just such people who in the plantation economy acted in ways that attempted to please the plantation owners. Now, while it is good to obey the laws of the country where you reside and good to try to be as neighbourly as you can be, there is a fine line to walk between law abiding and Coonish behaviour. 

It is within the culture of most Nigerian tribes to be true to ourselves and not be mindful of trying to please people so that we can be patted on the heads like good Coons. This is the difference between Nigerians and Ghanaians. This is why Nigerians tend to appear forthright somtimes. Unfortunately, what is happening is that Nigerians are beginning to forget their cultural heritages this is why more and more young Nigerians are sounding apologetic.[/b]


I think the behaviour of those girls is appalling and unladylike but that is they. I am proud of being a Nigerian because of our unapologetic spirit, Nigerians will always be the Africans who create something new because we’ll never wait around for the permission of whites.

@JomoGbomo2

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The story seems unlikely. However, the very idea provides an opportunity to discuss a few issues regarding how for the first time in the history of mankind a group of persecuted people, Nigerians, are major contributors to their own dehumanisation.  It is unparalleled. Humans, except us Nigerians, have learned from history that labelling, stereotyping and dehumanisation, precedes the mass exterminations of a victimised people. What labelling and stereotyping does is that it provides justification for mass murder. For example, you stated:

JomoGbomo2
The Nigerian govt should also make a statement, as long as these guys weren't tracking drugs then they shouldn't just be killed like a goat.

Well because racists and some so called “Nigerians” have successfully labelled Nigerians as thieves, rapists, rubbers, fraudsters, drug traffickers and so many other names including, on this board, Devils, the Libyans could kill any number of innocent Nigerians and claim that they were drug traffickers and few would bat an eyelid.   The upshot of this our “Abi na true now culture” is that your mum, dad, siblings aren’t really safe anywhere in the world that they travel. Anyone who is Nigerian and perhaps feisty can be picked out of an airport line (like the Nazi used to point at Jews) and commanded to step out because "we have reason to suspect you of drug trafficking". 


Personally, I have never believed that any person deriding Nigerians and saying something like, “we are the most corrupt people in the world” is a Nigerian. No one in the world, literally, can be that stupid. No nation of people dehumanises themselves and certainly no black nation assist white people to perpetrate racists’ stereotype on them or their nations and I see no reason to believe that Nigerians are stupid enough to do so either.
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[b]No one.


Vague ideas:



1. Get rid of national elections and replace with state elections:

   State citizens should be presented with candidates fighting to be elected for two major posts. That of Governor and (SR) State Representative. 


2. Replace the current legislature with a tripartite house.
     
First House:
(The most powerful) should be run by a cabinet made up of State Representatives. They should be the ones that elect the chairman. The Chairman therefore is the most powerful man in the country. However, under this new system, naturally because he is only chairman of the ruling house his power will not be as powerful as our current president.

Second house:
Should be inhabited by traditional leaders who give advice and have collective power of veto.

Third House:

Should be the house of the people, however, ideally it should be inhabited by media people, student heads, teachers union, labour etcetera.


The judiciary would form an auxiliary body with enhanced powers.
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I think those guys actually have the ability to build a car based on their own concept and design. Cars can be small-scale, hand-made manufacture to begin with. 

If I were wealthy, I would make research, hunt the most talented, build a small factory in Nigeria, tie some of these types of people to a contract, house and pay for their upkeep for a year and see what we can do together.




The African American Nigeria company.

Building:

X CARS


ALL X cars would come in one colour:

black




However, I am not a businessman so attribute all flaws in my thinking to this fact.

Demonic:



Agent Orange

[b]To everyone, I’d like to say there’s no point insulting people whose opinions differ from yours. On this issues it seems to me there are no easy answers. My worry continually is our tendencies as Nigerians to act as if Nigeria is out on a limb on all issues. I do not think, like some do, that it is helpful and will bring about change for the better by over-exaggerating all the flaws in Nigeria. I think that it is counter productive. Indeed, the act of exaggerating highlights one of the flaws inherent in doing so. In order words, the laws of diminishing returns.


I suspect that most people including those happy with the action of security services would be happy had the security services made arrest, kept people alive and otherwise complied with what the experts on law and due process  argue is the ideal procedures  for law enforcement to follow in a “civilised society”.  Even those who you may think are unreasonable in their support for the security services actions do have their equivalent in those societies to which some of you want to run way to in order to escape Nigeria society.  In Europe or America, more people than you would be comfortable to admit repeatedly clamour for summery executions of paedophiles, rapists, murderers and terrorists. Therefore, when some Nigerians point out that they are happy with the actions and outcome of the security services they are not doing or saying anything different from the world norm.

As for me, while I would be the first one to call and fight for self-help, I think that a developing country like Nigeria need the presence of international organisations, and countries that can show themselves to be above patronage and show themselves to be even handed, and peerless in what they do, to keep check. If not then no country has moral authority to dictate to developing countries except by force of might. It seems to me that very few people understand that we are (the world) living in probably the most dangerous period.
  [/b]

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Our president just looks like an unwell human being but I’m sorry Lula of Brazil looks like an ewok:


[img]http://nurnana.files./2008/02/ewoks.jpg[/img]
   

                                EWOK

These things happen because America no longer has moral authority



Guantanamo:

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Oscar-grant



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-rucker/justice-for-oscar-grant-i_b_157572.html

[b]Jees it’s more like a village hut in here than Nairaland, with old men mumbling rubbish in the twilight. one minute, you guys argue that the military weren’t moving fast enough or killing enough Northerners  unlike in the delta but now that the military has massacred these Islamic zealots you all turn around and moan that its is a plot to prepare the ground to massacre deltans.

The way I see it, there are two causes here for which I have sympathy but have doubt about the real intention of the people doing the crusading. Firstly, Delta state has been exploited and damaged environmentally, and its cause needs championing but I do not believe the current people in the bush are helping anyone but their bank balance.  Secondly, these Buko Haram people have a point about western education. There is a huge debate to be had about the real effect of western education on the third world but these Buko Haram people are not interested in that debate they are more interested in the wider militant Islam movement.

This is all tragic but I fear the military has no alternative but to do what it is doing.


And in the name of whatever omnipotent being you worship stop hounding the northerners----
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Thor

You are probably right, it will be abused by the local people, that is why it needs to be controlled by respectable NGO's

And there you have it why Nigerians are being taught to hate their country, it is because Oyibo is not yet in charge so he has his propaganda machine working full out, levers and gears worked by his organ grinder trained black monkeys. When he has made you hate yourself then he will sell you something.


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Who’s the man? I’m the man, who’s the man? I’m the man lol

Ghana








being Nigerians we don’t gloat at others.  Therefore, in that spirit of my people  I say well done Ghana,  don’t worry, with your electric power this will soon be a thing of the past unlike in India where having had electricity for decades the slums remain.




                             India

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The smile on the boy in the picture seems even brighter. Maybe he is laughing at your pathetic rejoinder, thor, or maybe nok

This one is better


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG8o5y5BmGs&feature=channel

Manila Philippines



A creek






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Gee, but is this boy happy ---- unlike his parents

happiness is informed by perspective

Stupid and vacuous reply:

Stupid, because your glib reply informs anyone who has an once of brain that in posting the picture you posted a metaphor and you do not even know that that was what you did and the best that you could have done.


Vacuous because I think you really meant that picture literally.


Finally, if you had any brain, you would realise I was challenging you to quantify happiness.

On the other hand, it is possible that you are not so much stupid as suffering from youth and inexperience or just being oyibo




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I have lived like this once.

Back then, I did not have socks and shoes (samada or whatever they call it) like the boy in the picture and periodically suffered from parasites the like of which most of you cannot imagine. Looking back, I think those were the happiest days of my life.

Think carefully before replying because I have noticed you have a tendency to be glib and vacuous.



I like this picture and will keep using it in future.