tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post113311206340849749..comments2016-08-20T19:14:01.630+01:00Jeremy[email protected]Blogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1133170532509158302005-11-28T10:35:00.000+01:002005-11-28T10:35:00.000+01:00I have nothing to say about the whole racism thing, I've experienced it before, and in Sweden of all places, and it wasn't funny. But then truth is we have such behavious among ourselves as Obokun rightly pointed out...<BR/><BR/>Now back to the Alams issue... http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-11-28T082552Z_01_FOR826491_RTRUKOC_0_US-NIGERIA-ARMY.xml&archived=FalseChxtahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10417662222871620594[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1133118387728473022005-11-27T20:06:00.000+01:002005-11-27T20:06:00.000+01:00Jeremy this is on Tejus point and at the risk of sounding trite; subconsciously or consciously I think we all live in a world of unearned privileges.<BR/><BR/>Lets take a trip back home to our own mothership and consider the manner a Yoruba man/woman would report an event involving the death of 2 yoruba men/women and 1 hausa man/woman. <BR/><BR/><I> <BR/>He would say: eniyan meji ati hausa kan </I> meaning <B> 2 "people" and 1 hausa </B>!!! Is the hausa not "human"?<BR/><BR/>So I would say there is nothing inherent in most forms of statecraft where it emerges in such a fundamental way. What I think we need to see in Nigeria (as this is what concerns me) is the government promoting an agenda/program on diversity that I could expunge ourselves of racism (the very essence of our dilemma) and accept all people.the flying monkeyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00294875520555839146[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-1133114714948027272005-11-27T19:05:00.000+01:002005-11-27T19:05:00.000+01:00You know how they always say that the Devil's greatest trick is convincing people he doesn't exist? Well, that's kind of like white privilege.<BR/><BR/>White privilege is so great precisely because no one believes it is there.<BR/><BR/>I think the story of the black kid who's not allowed to crop his hair close is an excellent example, particularly because it is so slight a situation. I bet you'll get readers who think, "Hey, what's the big deal, rules are rules." Insidious, subtle shit.<BR/><BR/>My favorite (if I may use that term) example of white privilege is the way newspapers in the UK and the US say "a man" when they mean a white man, and "a black man" when they mean a black man. White, by implication, is normal. What a mindfuck. (And, natch, we see the same thing in the gender divide- "a doctor" vs "a female doctor", etc). Language is power.Teju Colehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16775553841439495820[email protected]