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Homeless 8 year old breh wins NY State Chess Championship update:(Trevor Noah produced movie coming)
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Bullshyt. His pops is teaching him the value of working for what you got, planning for the long term, helping others, being grateful, trusting God, and not overvaluing money.
Only 10% went to the church, but they sound like great thinkers to me.You don't know who that money fed, since it was given to the Church. I'm glad the boy has a home, but is parents are clearly poor thinkers and a bad influence that may leave his potential unfulfilled as he ages.
It was basically an unasked for lotto win, and the majority of people who win the lotto see their lives get worse, not better. Money and selfishness corrupt, values last forever.
Oh no! Why they being so divisive??!
This isn't it.
He is being taught to be a Church Pawn but OKBullshyt. His pops is teaching him the value of working for what you got, planning for the long term, helping others, being grateful, trusting God, and not overvaluing money.
Only 10% went to the church, but they sound like great thinkers to me.
It was basically an unasked for lotto win, and the majority of people who win the lotto see their lives get worse, not better. Money and selfishness corrupt, values last forever.
This isn't it.
They used Missionaries to Infiltrate communities then convert us and preach pacifism. All over a sudden the church is reformed like that never happened.
I value the teachings of the bible and spirituality not religion... fukk that bullshyt. Invite me to your church and I'm taking 10%
You literally have no idea what he's "being taught." You're talking like no one can appreciate their church and what it does in their lives just because you have a negative impression.
And the vast majority of churches who were on that bullshyt were preaching militarism, not pacifism. Name the pacifist church that you're pissed off at?
preaching militarism in the colonies?
nikkaz put down their weapons and converted then lived under colonialism.. the missionaries went back with a lay of the land and a the trust of the people that they used to subjugate them. if you can't shake white jesus that's on you..
That's why they giving away 10% and filling his mind with idealism
Feeling young people's minds with idealism is a good thing, it's a hell of a lot better than filling their minds with cynicism and the rest of societal bullshyt.
Again, that's bullshyt. Give me the name of the church that was actually preaching pacifism that you have a problem with, with receipts.preaching militarism in the colonies?
nikkaz put down their weapons and converted then lived under colonialism.. the missionaries went back with a lay of the land and a the trust of the people that they used to subjugate them. if you can't shake white jesus that's on you..
The actual pacifist missionaries were almost always the advocates of the Native peoples. When Columbus was on his slavedriving bullshyt the ONLY person who objected and stood up for the rights of the local people and exposed Columbus's violent bullshyt was the missionary priest on the ship (Columbus didn't give a fukk about religion, he just wanted money). When the Spanish invaded South America looking for gold, the ONLY place locals were protected from slavery was in the Jesuit reductions, which only ended when the king expelled the Jesuits. The FIRST movement to oppose slavery in the USA were the Quakers, and they ended up banning slavery in most of their regions before the USA even became a country. Who led the nonviolent movement in the Philippines that toppled their dictator? Pacifists in the Church. Who led the nonviolent movement in Poland that helped topple the Soviet Union? Pacifists in the Church. Who went to South Africa to help organize revolution against Apartheid rule? Pacifists in the Church. Who led the Civil Rights Movement in the South? Pacifists in the Church. Who led the Base Communities in Central America which opposed US intervention and militarism? Pacifists in the Church.
Not all missionaries were good, possibly not even most. But the a$$hole colonizing churches were almost alwasy preaching a militaristic gospel. It wasn't pro-revolution because only the "proper authorities" were supposed to conduct war, but it was pro-military and pro-violence as hell. And they preached that same bullshyt on every continent, not just in their colonies.
The main place I know where duel gospels was being preached was on American plantations, and that wasn't by missionaries, that was by slaveowners who could have given a fukk about church (they were descendants of the British Cavaliers who were about status and power, not faith). The actual hardcore religious colonialists who preached pacifism, like the Quakers and the Mennonites and the Amish, were also among the first to ban slavery.
if you call out militaristic and nation-building church bullshyt for its part in colonialism and destroying the world and fukking up Black civilization, I'm all with you. But when you call out pacifists you lose the thread. The pacifists have been allies in the struggle more often than not for hundreds of years now.
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I speak of the history of what happened. Missionary came and spied while preaching... converted people so they didn't fight European invasion and sold the knowledge they acquired including mapping out our territories and security when they returned to Europe. We didn't fight because Christianity was their weapon...Feeling young people's minds with idealism is a good thing, it's a hell of a lot better than filling their minds with cynicism and the rest of societal bullshyt.
Again, that's bullshyt. You're acting like the church had this special "colonial gospel" and "colonizer gospel" and that it was using different catechisms and different bibles or some shyt. Receipts? Give me the name of the church that was actually preaching pacifism that you have a problem with, with receipts.
The actual pacifist missionaries were almost always the advocates of the Native peoples. When Columbus was on his slavedriving bullshyt the ONLY person who objected and stood up for the rights of the local people and exposed Columbus's violent bullshyt was the missionary priest on the ship (Columbus didn't give a fukk about religion, he just wanted money). When the Spanish invaded South America looking for gold, the ONLY place locals were protected from slavery was in the Jesuit reductions, which only ended when the king expelled the Jesuits. The FIRST movement to oppose slavery in the USA were the Quakers, and they ended up banning slavery in most of their regions before the USA even became a country. Who led the nonviolent movement in the Philippines that toppled their dictator? Pacifists in the Church. Who led the nonviolent movement in Poland that helped topple the Soviet Union? Pacifists in the Church. Who went to South Africa to help organize revolution against Apartheid rule? Pacifists in the Church. Who led the Civil Rights Movement in the South? Pacifists in the Church. Who led the Base Communities in Central America which opposed US intervention and militarism? Pacifists in the Church.
Not all missionaries were good, possibly not even most. But the a$$hole colonizing churches were almost alwasy preaching a militaristic gospel. It wasn't pro-revolution because only the "proper authorities" were supposed to conduct war, but it was pro-military and pro-violence as hell. And they preached that same bullshyt on every continent, not just in their colonies.
The main place I know where duel gospels was being preached was on American plantations, and that wasn't by missionaries, that was by slaveowners who could have given a fukk about church (they were descendants of the British Cavaliers who were about status and power, not faith). The actual hardcore religious colonialists who preached pacifism, like the Quakers and the Mennonites and the Amish, were also among the first to ban slavery.
if you call out militaristic and nation-building church bullshyt for its part in colonialism and destroying the world and fukking up Black civilization, I'm all with you. But when you call out pacifists you lose the thread. The pacifists have been allies in the struggle more often than not for hundreds of years now.
you go to church. I won't derail anymore...
For the most part that's a bullshyt narrative made up generations later by White atheists to attack White non-atheists. The timing wasn't even like that - the invasions often happened before the missionaries were even there, and when the missionaries were there first they didn't have a magic wand that made people suddenly not want to fight. Like I pointed out receipts for, often enough the missionaries even directly opposed the colonizers (though only rarely did they have any power to stop them). There were a$$holes who profited, just like there are a$$holes from every profession that profit, but they weren't the norm. You're giving missionaries WAY too much direct influence over geopolitics compared to actual history.
But yeah, this is way derailed from a good story. I'll stop off too.
That's from my family and tribes encounter with Europeans and how we were colonized. I can even get the name of the Missionary from my mother...
it's not a story. this was repeated all over the world smh
No wand we invited him after a long time of distrust and he lived within the community was indoctrinated and a part of the tribe. Learned all he could and then converted people. Went back to England and sold out a tribal kingdom that hadn't been penetrated by even Slavery with a book and some bullshyt. If you wanna go further make a spin off I won't derail this..
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Blackrogue
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That part was probably a finesse but I'm not knocking the parents for trying to get their family into a better situation. Easiest way to get a visa. Claim regugee status because of persecution. Realistically why wouldn't they just move to another part of their country if that was the case? It's not like as if naija is unstable as a whole.
Blackrogue
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I wouldn't normally tithe but this case makes sense to give back to the church that was helping them while they were homeless.. In fact they have made in my mind very good gestures all around
Rell Lauren
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I'd come in here in make this up? They said his last name was a dead giveaway as to where he's from. I'm American. I know nothing about Nigerian surnames and it being indicative of the tribe and region you reside from. Nigerians are elite finessers. Judges here don't know the geography and politics of a region. All it takes is a good story like our Central American "friends" have been doing for decades.
Breh, some of that shyt sounds straight from MAGA talking points. What's this bullshyt about Central Americans making up stories for decades to get refugee status?
There are lots of good reasons to be a refugee from Central America - the USA sponsored several civil wars there, put dictators in power, trained death squads, and imported MS-13 to El Salvador. But almost no one has historically gotten refugee status from Central America.
I just looked up the numbers by continent and of the 76,000 refugees/year the USA has accepted from around the world, only 2,800 come from ALL of Latin America and the Caribbean combined. That means you're talking probably only 1-2% of refugees coming from Central America. The vast majority of refugees come from Asia, Africa, and the former USSR.
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No sir.
If you read my post, I called BS on what "Nigerian twitter" was saying....the same way "Nigerians on social media" got their bluf called when there was a story circulating about a Chinese restaurant in Lagos that reused to serve Nigerians. That story got traction with not a SINGLE picture of the inside of the establishment taken....even in 2019 with most people owning smartphones .
I did not accuse you of lying nor did I call BS on you.
As far as what those people are saying about surnames and locations, with a country the size of that country with it's population...I don't think there are any hard rules about who lives where. That family could very well be from the Northeast of the country..or an area where BH has recently attacked.
The Nigerian members here have posted stories about people from different ethnic groups living in areas that are heavily concentrated by another.
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If you don't mind weighing in, what's your take on this?
get these nets
Veteran
UPDATE
Homeless 8-Year Old Nigerian Chess Prodigy Who Won NY State Championship Checkmates Paramount Movie Deal With ‘Daily Show’s Trevor Noah Among Producers
November 1, 2019
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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has acquired an untitled film project built around the Adewumi family. Living in a homeless center on religious asylum, 8-year-old Tani won the 2019 New York chess championship, despite only being introduced to the game two years earlier. The drama will be culled from three books on the family that have been set up at the HarperCollins imprint W Publishing.
Producing are Day Zero Productions’ Trevor Noah and Haroon Saleem, State Street Pictures’ George Tillman Jr. and Bob Teitel, and Mainstay Entertainment’s Norman Aladjem.
The drama will tell the story of a Nigerian family that escaped terrorism in their home country, sought and received asylum in America and — against all odds — found a welcoming new home in New York. It’s a story of love, peace, community and faith and the lengths parents will go to bring their family to safety and provide them a better life. Tani’s accomplishment went viral and the family’s story became an inspiration to many. The books will publish in spring 2020.
Noah, host, exec producer and writer of the Emmy and Peabody-winning The Daily Show, and his Day Zero partner Haroon Saleem are already in business with Aladjem’s Mainstay on an adaptation of Noah’s bestselling memoir Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood. That one is set at Paramount Players, and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o is attached to star. Day Zero and Mainstay are in prep for Noah’s untitled series for Quibi, which he will star in and produce.
State Street’s Teitel and Tillman most recently produced the acclaimed drama The Hate U Give, which Tillman directed. Jay Marcus will be exec producer and will oversee the project for State Street Pictures.
Homeless 8-Year Old Nigerian Chess Prodigy Who Won NY State Championship Checkmates Paramount Movie Deal With ‘Daily Show’s Trevor Noah Among Producers
November 1, 2019
Shutterstock
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has acquired an untitled film project built around the Adewumi family. Living in a homeless center on religious asylum, 8-year-old Tani won the 2019 New York chess championship, despite only being introduced to the game two years earlier. The drama will be culled from three books on the family that have been set up at the HarperCollins imprint W Publishing.
Producing are Day Zero Productions’ Trevor Noah and Haroon Saleem, State Street Pictures’ George Tillman Jr. and Bob Teitel, and Mainstay Entertainment’s Norman Aladjem.
The drama will tell the story of a Nigerian family that escaped terrorism in their home country, sought and received asylum in America and — against all odds — found a welcoming new home in New York. It’s a story of love, peace, community and faith and the lengths parents will go to bring their family to safety and provide them a better life. Tani’s accomplishment went viral and the family’s story became an inspiration to many. The books will publish in spring 2020.
Noah, host, exec producer and writer of the Emmy and Peabody-winning The Daily Show, and his Day Zero partner Haroon Saleem are already in business with Aladjem’s Mainstay on an adaptation of Noah’s bestselling memoir Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood. That one is set at Paramount Players, and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o is attached to star. Day Zero and Mainstay are in prep for Noah’s untitled series for Quibi, which he will star in and produce.
State Street’s Teitel and Tillman most recently produced the acclaimed drama The Hate U Give, which Tillman directed. Jay Marcus will be exec producer and will oversee the project for State Street Pictures.