Our fore bearers had already created a divisive society even - TopicsExpress

Our fore bearers had already created a divisive society even before the arrival of western conquistadors. We, their descendants, have only consolidated on them because we have chosen to maintain ethnic and religious superiority over our weak brothers by citing one fallacious history. Take, for instance, the popular well-decorated fallacy among the Igbos and Niger-Deltans that we are the forgotten Jewish race! Why cant we embrace something higher than that? Historically, we have never accepted the truth behind our socio-cultural evolution when it appears not to favour the continued dominance by other ethnic group; we only agree with the ones that wield us with unproportional ethnic and religious powers. An average black man believes his immediate adversary is his fellow black man, not those who immorally invaded us hundreds of years back, stole our treasured artefacts, and arrested and sold our fore-fathers for daring to challenge their authority. Even at that, it took the effective participation of blacks against fellow blacks for pecuniary interest, before slavery could become the booming trade during the 17th, 18thand 19th centuries. It is very funny when I see blacks fight and kill themselves over boundaries that were drawn by the colonialists. We hypocritically accuse the whites of racism, while we sink in tribalism against our fellow blacks because of our primitive quest to dominate and gather all for ourselves! Please if you doubt it, explain to me why even as a country, it is a taboo of the century for Igbo man to contest for the position of governor of Sokoto State, or why an Hausa/Fulani man can never contest for the same position in Yoruba land. Explain why it is an abomination for a Yoruba man to become an elected governor of any state in Igbo land? The answer is simple, people will remind you of many atrocities ( real and imagine) that your kinsmen have committed against their Saint-like folks! In Benue State, the office of Governor is an exclusive preserve of Tivs because they are the majority! Do you mean to tell me no Idoma man possesses the moral and intellectual wherewithal to become the governor? If so, then logically, it is morally unjustifiable for a Tiv man to aspire to rule Nigeria, since his majority status ends in Benue State! We say we want to be like US and Uk, but we forget that our biggest impediment to that dream is the uncritical acceptance of barbaric history and culture. That is why we feel at home when visiting Europe or US; but when we come home we fear because of the monsters we have created