Nigerian Times

Below is an exchange between Chinweizu of Nigeria and me on who is to blame for the national oppression of Nigerians. Chinweizu blames white people; I blame Nigerians, especially their leaders. This conversation is relevant to African Americans in that there is a tendency among us to blame "white supremacy" for all or most of our problems. My view is that that perspective is inadequate, for many of our problems should be partially placed elsewhere, either on our leaders (in all stations of life) or on our regard for those leaders or on ourselves (individually and collectively). We cannot blame that which has already been conquered, or is dead. -- Rudy Nigeria and White Supremacy Rudy, Like Neely Fuller, Jr. said, "If you don't understand white supremacy--what it is, and how it works -- everything else that you understand will only confuse you." The picture painted by Franklyn, though illuminating as far as it goes, does not go far enough. It is like a picture o...

Two Nigerian police officers were killed by a mob of Muslims in the Northern state of Kano last Friday. The mob atttacked a police station when a religious riot broke out in Sumaila Local Government Area of Kano State. The The Times of Nigeria reported that the crisis began from the Government Secondary School, Sumaila, when a Christian student (names withheld), now in hiding, drew a caricature of Prophet Mohammad." More details . Nigeria is largely populated by uncivilized people and the majority are Muslims located in the North. These Muslims should be more concerned about helping the millions of poor Muslims than looking for innocent non-Muslims to lynch over childish and foolish religious arguments. How can a cartoon of their prophet be offensive when none of them knows what Prophet Muhammad looked like? Hello Imams! Can you show me any photograph of Prophet Muhammad? What an uncivilized nation of religious zombies! Nigerian would have made great progress in modern civilizati...