This is why I have
no problems with any of my Nigerian or West Africa friends and find it funny that so many AADOS do. Once you demonstrate that you have an awareness of their own societal problems back at home, that are like our issues that we experience here multiplied by 1000, they are humbled and shut up quickly.
They will make the excuse that they had colonialism. But we had slavery. They tell us we don’t understand the history of colonialism in their countries as if we didn’t experience much worse away from our native countries. They at least were able to keep their names, language, land, history, sense of place, identity. We were stripped of all of that shyt and still had to thrive in a foreign land.
They may stereotype us based off of the way we speak, but when you question why they speak that ghastly pidgeon, they shut up.
They may stereotype and think that we don’t take education seriously but once you point out that the fact that there use to be over 121 Black universities in America (20 have since closed) and there is a population of 35-40 mil Aframs and most were founded at the turn of the century or right after the civil war, compared to there being only 99 accredited universities in Nigeria according to this list
Full List of Universities in Nigeria (Accredited, 2017/2018)
And the population of Nigeria is 190 million (4x the Afram population) and most were founded in the 2000s. Point this out and they shut up quickly.
They stereotype us based off our poverty and drug use but point out the fact that 75% of Lagos is a shanty town and half of the population of Nigerian is on lean, they shut up.
Point out that segments of their population are still practicing barbaric acts such as cannibalism, or practicing witchcraft, they have nothing to say.
And on and on....
I’m not trying to be divisive because my closest friends are actually West African (Nigerian and Ghanaians) and I have so much love for them, but you have to check them once in awhile and when you do they get over whatever complex they imagined in their minds quickly.
At least with me they do.
You see they bank off of us being ignorant about what’s going on in their home countries.
