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Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by idu1(m): 7:49am On Aug 06, 2014
Blackchampion: Who cares about dis Oyibo racism, if any think its easy to change his/her skin colour, let him/her try darkening his skin.
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*******LAST BULLET*********
Am black, Am Comely cos black is beautiful.
# Blackchampion
U r not making sense.
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by TheMasterpiece(m): 7:49am On Aug 06, 2014
tonychristopher: In the past years the state of the Black person globally has become paramount on my mind. I have observed that wherever Black people are, whether it is Australia – among the Aborigines, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, or North America, we seem to belong at the bottom of the pile,or the bottom of the pyramid, economically, socially, physically, mentally, etc. It makes one ask several questions:*.What is responsible for these 2,000 years of “Black backwardness”?*.Why do we seem to fail even where we arein the majority?*.Is the Black man victimized; and is he a victim of his own circumstances, pathologies, or of other people’s opinions and decisions?*.Have Blacks always been this way?*.Are we descended from “Kunta Kinteh” or from kings?*.If Blacks are not cursed, what did they do to deserve almost 2,000 years of oppression, lack, etc?*.What is responsible for Africa being the richest continent and yet inhabited by the poorest people?*.If Black means only one sixteenth of skin, why are Blacks un-able to overcome the “victimitis” or pressure that comes with it?*.Is there a conspiracy to keep Blacks at thebottom?*.Why do Black nations constitute the biggest borrower nations?*.If Blacks are not cursed, is their land cursed?*.Africans are religious by nature, and where they have become Christians they have been committed. Why are they still not making progress?*.Why is there such a gap between White dominated and Black dominated nations?*.What are the pathologies responsible for the state of Blacks in different settings?*.Can there be healing to the atrocities committed against Blacks in the past?*.Some African nations have the highest number of educated citizens, yet Africa in modern times has not contributed significantly to discoveries or inventions.*.What is the future of the Black person?*.If there is a future, what is the key to that future?*.When will the Black man’s day of manifestation come?
Hello, you copied Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo's book, "What is wrong with being black?" verbatim and you failed to acknowledge him in your post? You are asking what is wrong with being black, meanwhile you're appropriating someone's work as yours? Seun , Mukina2 , Obinoscopy , this is plagiarism and shouldn't be encouraged.

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Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Fash20: 7:51am On Aug 06, 2014
No kill pesin wit laf naw. Hahahahahaha
engineerd:

Look at your head like agbalumo....Agbaya!
your upper-lip like croissants....
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by neohitler(m): 7:51am On Aug 06, 2014
engineerd:

are u done phucking your sister?
So much freedom for a n!gga. I'm done talking with a trash like you.but before I go I have some banana for you.come and have some don't be shy you little monkey.
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by mayoroflag(m): 7:51am On Aug 06, 2014
Basically selfish leadership and lack of alignment between the interest of the elites and that of the masses...
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by idu1(m): 7:52am On Aug 06, 2014
PrettySleek: There is nothing wrong with it. Being black is a very unique thing, God blessed us with everything but we have destroyed it. I believe you should speak for yourself as a person and not your race because you can only be sure of yourself. Your skin does not define who you are,your actions do.
u dont get what the Op is saying. Black race is moving backward. Is better we realise and find solution to our problem.
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Blackchampion(m): 7:59am On Aug 06, 2014
idu1: U r not making sense.
#Ignored.....
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by idu1(m): 8:01am On Aug 06, 2014
pak:


I don't see the difference between what you have said and the OPs opinion,
you just expressed the same sentiments in different word.
bottomline, There is a problem somewhere that's holding us back
yes is true. Look at the ape comments this noble thread could generate. It means, no average nigerian youth is thinking intellectually. What do u expect fr those from people. Am black and i must admit we ve a problem.
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Nobody: 8:03am On Aug 06, 2014
neohitler:
So much freedom for a n!gga. I'm done talking with a trash like you.but before I go I have some banana for you.come and have some don't be shy you little monkey.

Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by claremont(m): 8:08am On Aug 06, 2014
I think some black people should stop using their skin color to justify their inability to succeed in a white-dominated environment. As much as I would agree that racism exists in most developed societies, we should learn to have as role models blacks who have succeeded in these environments regardless of presence of racism.

There is nothing inherently wrong in being black, but there might be something wrong in the way blacks perceive themselves.

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Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Sohvid: 8:08am On Aug 06, 2014
Mr poster nothing is wrong with being black, why don't u go round the world and see blacks inventing great stuffs, or try have a look at the latest version of the Guinness book record. It's only those who live in the 50s would think blacks are still backward. Take the Hollywood or the American music industry as an example, how many white would u see. Or even in the Uk. #saynotoracism. Chilean.
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by neohitler(m): 8:10am On Aug 06, 2014
engineerd:

Go to hell.stupid racist n!gga
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by emotional(m): 8:14am On Aug 06, 2014
@OP.
for better understanding, swap continent with d Europeans in three years we will be knocking at d doors of their embassies for a return visa to African soil. Some call it mental slavery l call it evil mindset.
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by technophile(m): 8:14am On Aug 06, 2014
neohitler:
Maybe because you are too dumb to read with your banana head.

Hey Mr. white guy, before I say anything where are you from??
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by chucky234(m): 8:19am On Aug 06, 2014
9jahubcom: hmmmm..am i really that black

Ignoramus

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Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by ogaju007(m): 8:27am On Aug 06, 2014
1supremo: Being black smears your shirt, making you spend a sizable lump of your income on Hypo(c): an expense that your Caucasian colleagues with equal earnings don't have to make- less money for food for you- POVERTY.

D. A. F. T
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by mickyarams: 8:29am On Aug 06, 2014
donnypool:

Op you are totally wrong in some aspect, economic wise Black countries are poor but mentally body is equal, there is no curse anywhere, its not due to slavery or any other thing, but it is due to greed. The mind of an average African mind is filled with greed, the average African man want to be better than the rest, so therefore he careless to provide jobs just so that the man he tagged poor will not be richer than himself tomorrow. Dangote is a billionaire, but what has he done to help Nigeria?, Abacha stole billions, where did he keep the money? James Ibori went and bought estate in UK with investment, why didn't he build the estate here?

I don't blame our leaders but even the people ain't good either. Blacks are succeeding every where in different countries but the ones in the black govern countries are suffering. Go to Winnipeg Alberta Canada and see how those greedy leaders spend money on their Kids?, you will broke into tears.

My friend, the problem with Black African's is greed..


You just hit the nail on the head. Our problem is greed, white people take advantage of that greed to gain access to our natural resources. Unfortunately our youths are too tribalistic to realise this and it will remain like this for a long time judging by the comments I read on African forums on a daily basis.
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by pro2010: 8:32am On Aug 06, 2014
By merely perusing through the comments that this scholarly and intelligent question has generated, it is evident to all who had doubts before now that something is seriously wrong with the way Black man reasons.

Human beings are born blank, they learn to imitate their environments, what they do repeatedly soon becomes a part of them; if you raise a white kid in a Black country, he would most definitely behave like a Black kid so the skin color is not the issue; or why do our BIG men in Africa stand in cues and behave properly when they are outside Africa? or the white man caught on camera urinating on a bridge in Lagos that he ordinarily would not try in his country? INSTITUTIONS!

Of the different development theories that have been postulated by scholars, the INSTITUTION & GEOGRAPHY approaches to development explains best why some countries are faring better than others. A lot of African countries are favored by Geography (rich in natural resources) so the culprit in African has been weak INSTITUTIONS.
An institution is any structure or mechanism of social order governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given community. Institutions are identified with a social purpose, transcending individuals and intentions by mediating the rules that govern living behavior. This tells you that strong Institutions dictates the way a people must live.

A lot of Nigerian's wish that the British (our colonial masters) had stayed longer than 1960, they believe Nigeria would have looked more like South Africa (which seems to be the only organised country in Africa) this situation is possible today in South Africa because their colonial masters where around to nurture there INSTITUTIONS to maturity. The laid down INSTITUTIONS were still very tender when the British left Nigeria, the new set of leaders reset the values of our INSTITUTIONS and this is the reason we are in this mess.

If we cultivate STRONG INSTITUTIONS with the right values in Africa, things would get a lot better as man would always conform to the dictates of its environment.

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Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Oduduwaboy(m): 8:37am On Aug 06, 2014
neohitler: Blacks belong in the cage. Give us Africa and we'll make it another heaven on earth in five years.oh yes go ahead and call me a racist but you know it's the truth. you people can't manage your resources. I think you govt. should adopt chinese one child policy. We are tired of cleaning your sh!ts

I will respond using the self-declared racist post because it actually contains some truths and not the pathetic 'am black and proud' posts i have been seeing.

I believe the first problem of the black race first and foremost is the inability to institute good leadership.
Why will Nigerians be fighting to elect in 2015 a GEJ that had no vision for the country before he luckily got there in 2010? This is where it all starts from----leadership! Any group of people who consistently encourage and tolerate bad leadership is doomed!!!
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by ogaju007(m): 8:38am On Aug 06, 2014
Hmmm OP, these are good questions... Even at the world cup, how many black brazilians did we see at the stadium compared to the ones rioting on the streets. Personal Opinion

We need to understand the fundamentals of life. (Help one another)
Education is key! This might not affect us now but we need to educate our kids so there can be a turn around in their generation.
Dumb Corruption! There is corruption everywhere but atleast do something meaningful while you're in power.
Enlightened people with vision need to go into politics so they can have direct impact on the direction of the people. Most politicians in Nigeria are stack illiterate without vision nor concept.
We need to stop the attitude of expecting handouts.
We need to free ourselves from religious slavery... (There is no manna anymore)
We need to see ourselves as humans and stop the self pity. Not only black were enslaved even the westerners were once slaves to some people but they have moved on. The Indians were slaves to the English but they have moved on.
We need to make people believe in themselves... I can go on and on but i will stop here.

I am proud of the Black African guys in the UK as they are competing well with the best in the world (Come to Canary Wharf, you will be proud to be a black man.) but we need to lift the others. grin grin

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Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by neohitler(m): 8:39am On Aug 06, 2014
technophile:

Hey Mr. white guy, before I say anything where are you from??
Germany. mr. Black guy
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Ghyft(f): 8:49am On Aug 06, 2014
Being dark-skinned is as a result of excess melanin content in the skin...but for the low progress rate is due to inferiority complex and misappropriation of resources..... Senghor started his saying of Negritude and we are following that map allowing ourselves to be mistreated......
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by HARDDON: 8:49am On Aug 06, 2014
tonychristopher: In the past years the state of the Black person globally has become paramount on my mind. I have observed that wherever Black people are, whether it is Australia – among the Aborigines, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, or North America, we seem to belong at the bottom of the pile,or the bottom of the pyramid, economically, socially, physically, mentally, etc. It makes one ask several questions:*.What is responsible for these 2,000 years of “Black backwardness”?*.Why do we seem to fail even where we arein the majority?*.Is the Black man victimized; and is he a victim of his own circumstances, pathologies, or of other people’s opinions and decisions?*.Have Blacks always been this way?*.Are we descended from “Kunta Kinteh” or from kings?*.If Blacks are not cursed, what did they do to deserve almost 2,000 years of oppression, lack, etc?*.What is responsible for Africa being the richest continent and yet inhabited by the poorest people?*.If Black means only one sixteenth of skin, why are Blacks un-able to overcome the “victimitis” or pressure that comes with it?*.Is there a conspiracy to keep Blacks at thebottom?*.Why do Black nations constitute the biggest borrower nations?*.If Blacks are not cursed, is their land cursed?*.Africans are religious by nature, and where they have become Christians they have been committed. Why are they still not making progress?*.Why is there such a gap between White dominated and Black dominated nations?*.What are the pathologies responsible for the state of Blacks in different settings?*.Can there be healing to the atrocities committed against Blacks in the past?*.Some African nations have the highest number of educated citizens, yet Africa in modern times has not contributed significantly to discoveries or inventions.*.What is the future of the Black person?*.If there is a future, what is the key to that future?*.When will the Black man’s day of manifestation come?

it's all a state of the mind: for as he thinketh in his mind, so he is!

i know alot of dark skinned folks who rose above the stigmatization and all that the african skin affords, to the pinnacles of sumbline career.

I know alota african folks who are helping out the western world, u become what u think about most times.

think poverty, and poverty would follow u. apply your heart to how u can be at the very prime, nothing can stop u.

Africa needs to wake up from its mental slavery and taste the royal coffee, tis latter than she thinks!

U were born an eagle Oh mother AFRICA! arise and soar and stop living like a chick!
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Nobody: 8:53am On Aug 06, 2014
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Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Haywhymido(m): 8:55am On Aug 06, 2014
Well, u can only c something wrong in been black if u av been brainwashed dat been black is ok n gud or av suffered racial abuse.Am proud to be frm d black race.
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Johncuppa(m): 8:59am On Aug 06, 2014
Matthew Ashimolowo's book- "what is wrong with being black" will answer u well. Beside, do we stil need to be asking such questn. Taking Nigeria as a case study, wat do u expect 4rm a nation wt an unenabling environment for progress, bad leaders/politicians, rice and money political followers, half baked graduate (as a result of strike, increament in sku fee, among others), unemployment etc. We are nt black in intelligence bt we are made black by d environment we met ourselves, let a Nigerian be train since his childhood day and compare him wt any white child, an example are Dr. Ben Carson (black American though), Matthew Ashimolowo , Sunday Adelaja among others and u wil knw wat we are up to. God bless the blacks
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Oduduwaboy(m): 8:59am On Aug 06, 2014
lilprinze: d only tin i c wrong wit us d blackz iz jz corruption, greed and lack or organization
these very things are very toxic to the advancement of any race or culture!
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by ReubenAbati: 8:59am On Aug 06, 2014
martolux: black don't crack!!!


This is one of the problem with blacks. At 28 (or probably 29) you still dey take selfie share for Nairaland.
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Biggybountz: 9:03am On Aug 06, 2014
neohitler: Blacks belong in the cage. Give us Africa and we'll make it another heaven on earth in five years.oh yes go ahead and call me a racist but you know it's the truth. you people can't manage your resources. I think you govt. should adopt chinese one child policy. We are tired of cleaning your sh!ts

If you are a racist, good luck to you!. You do have some sensible points, but you don't have to come across as a racist. Next time, argue with some degree of intellect.
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by wheesin(m): 9:06am On Aug 06, 2014
neohitler:
So much freedom for a n!gga. I'm done talking with a trash like you.but before I go I have some banana for you.come and have some don't be shy you little monkey.

o gini ka onya ne ku kita..oye ara ki bu-igbo

ta ni were yi to tun soro bi aja - yoruba

you are just a toothless white dog..fvck u and ur inventions.. i am african..go fvck hitler and his taste for over a million souls lost during WWII in his grave..may ifa strike ur white peniz with leprosy - english
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by henryobinna(m): 9:06am On Aug 06, 2014
neohitler:
Maybe because you are too dumb to read with your banana head.
fuc.k off son! I can't waste my beautiful morning attending to a retàrd.
Re: What Is Wrong In Being Black? by Oduduwaboy(m): 9:10am On Aug 06, 2014
If the Asians can successfully ensure technology transfer from the West , why cant the black Africans ensure same to the betterment of their societies?

Tell me about the quality of mind of leaders of the African countries presently ruling.

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