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Originally Posted by Dsampler
Sure.
Simply put. Compare your peeps' worst nightmare during the colonial days to your peeps' worst nightmare today.
Get it yet?
Bottom line: Your peeps are not well disciplined enough (collectively) to govern themselves. Truth hurts? Don't feel too bad, we're all feeling it.
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right.
and when exactly do you estimate that my peeps will become "disciplined" enough?
how many years of colonialism do you suppose would finally instill this level of "discipline"? or is it an indefinite thing, that we should be colonized forever because, say, we're pretty much inherently inferior and just lack the latent ability to govern ourselves?
and by the way, i don't buy into that "collectively" nonsense. i believe that
individuals effect change... not groups.
that's one tenet upon which your beloved white man built his society, and a huge part of the reason that his society works and ours does not.
that "collectivist" mindset is an impediment to progress.
the answer is not to beg the white man to come and govern you again and be your father. the answer is in looking at the white man's culture, examining it to see the elements that have caused his society to thrive, and integrating them into our own culture.
but let anybody critique traditional Nigerian culture and everybody will say "no-oooooo! this is our culture! this is the way our people have done things for 100s of years! we can't change it! we must keep everything the same!"
and then you wonder why your yard is messed up and the white man's is so pretty.
the problem is that a lot of Africans are really resistant to the idea of using their brains. they'd rather appeal to traditional culture, or pray to some imaginary Jesus or pray to their God on earth, the white man, to save them.
it makes me sick.
and then you have the nerve to call
me ignorant because i refuse to buy into your self-defeating attitudes.
*shakes head*