WHITE MANKIND: WONDERS OR NOSY PECKING GNOMES?

When the white man makes a fart in your mouth, he simultaneously puts some salt in it. Typically, you can’t spit out the salt because of the foul smell and also the salt is very sweet. Yeh!!The white man has been creating good and bad and sometimes evil things that have impacted gravely on the sustainability of the earth and its inhabitants.All the things that make the world what it is today were made by and continuously produced by them. Many people however believe that if the white man had left the world alone since the time of civilization we would all have found our own way of solving what world evolution faces us with. NO!!The white man is an inquisitive or sometimes a nosy pecker by nature. That is why they did not sit their bums down in Europe and say that things will take shape as God Almighty had probably planned them. They help the Almighty with execution.They went deep into discoveries of many things that would be useful to us and explained it off as "necessity is the mother of invention".All the Michael Faradays, David Livingstones, Louis Pasteurs, Graham Bells, Benjamin Franklins and so on. The name list has become too numerous with time. So also are the inventions. In their vintage form, they decided on their own volition to see what the earth and lately other planets look like. They made us know that the earth is round and made their footstep on the sand of the moon 40 years ago.Amerigo Vespucchi headed to what is now called the Americas, even before Christopher Columbus made the voyage and discovery popular.The white men are terrific; they come to your village, ask you for directions or ask you to take them around the place and before you realize what is happening they turn round to say they discovered the place and give it a name; their own name.Would you believe that the Bushmen of Southern Africa are the first to put on G-Strings underwear that the white man has now brought to commercial success? The poor Bushmen could not popularize them. The situation is the same all around the world.The Kwakultt Indians amongst the large tribal group of people who were original owners of present day United States of America were subdued and their land taken away from them by white men. Same with Australia, the Aborigines were forcefully removed from their land because there was no "Mandela" to fight for them over there.In South Africa every other place has been laced with the Dutch "burg" or "berg". In Nigeria, they said Mungo Park discovered River Niger-our own very river, with its source in Fouta Djalon in Guinea. Mungo Park was taken on a trip by a couple of villagers when he was lost on the very River. Wonderful!! The white man later looked around and in the absence of a veritable name to give to this new land bordering both sides of the Niger River, called it the Niger-area and later became Nigeria. The same applies everywhere. They come from all fronts-name it; economic, religious, trade, cajoling, force.Once they gain a foothold on the land they employ their most lethal weapon-"divide and rule". They turn the people against themselves and perpetually rule over them. The Southern Nigerians up till today still curse the day that the then colonial Governor-General of the Northern and Southern protectorates of Nigeria, Mr. Injustice Lord Lugard amalgamated the North and South of Nigeria.Even though I wake up every morning and thank God for creating the white man for us, I still bother a lot not knowing which is greater, the negative or the positive contributions of the white man to the world.Okay! Take the case of slave trade, the most singular horrific mental and physical harm inflicted as white man’s inhumanity to man and woman for that matter. Because the white man still holds the world, especially Africa captive by plundering our natural wealth and carting it away to their own land, the Africans are still tied to their apron strings economically.Unbelievably, a multitude of African people whose forebears were forced into slavery and cheap, degrading labor, now sell their belongings just to be able to get into Europe and America. And once they arrive with their portmanteau on their head, they announce the arrival of another "slave" willing to do any degrading job the white man would never do.Look at apartheid (Apart hood), a crazy baldhead’s means of locking our people behind bars in our own fadaland just to steal our gold and diamond. Thank God a Mandela was around to rescue us from the Lion’s den.Their latest tact of ruling over the world is Democracy-˜Dem-all-crazy”, “Demonstration of Craze”. In theory maybe practice, it is the best form of Government. But it’s also used as an avenue for perpetuating their hold on us, as the Government people especially in Africa have gone crazy believing it is the ˜Government of the Governors, on behalf of the people, against the people, for the benefit of a few”. Crazy isn’t? Crazy-dem-all!!Culturally, they colonized our conscience into believing anything made or formed by us is inferior. They sold their own set of names to overwhelm the whole world. In the process my father of blessed memory became John Joseph and my darling mother, Comfort Stevens. WOW!!In Nigeria, it’s particularly hip to have an English surname, the Pearses, Johnsons, Bank-Anthonys, Braithwaites, Lawsons, Phillips, Josephs and so on. It shows that you’re from yonder or a ˜Tokunbo”.On the religious front, they sold us the names of their ancestors and their sainthood. And we bought into it. Why wont we? Which of own ancestors or deities can we market to the world? None? I dare say yes. Who will dare call the name Saint Orunmila or Saint Ogun? God forbid. Tufiakwa!So, they paint ˜bene spiritus”, good angels such as ˜Archangel Michael” white and paint ˜mal spiritus”, bad angels such as ˜Lucifer” black and your subconscious buys into that belief. Would it be possible in modern times to paint a good angel black and a bad angel white? Well, wonders shall never end. I am waiting.Alright, say all you can about the cruelty of the white man but you can never dispute the fact that they have made almost everything that we have on earth today possible- electricity, transportation, education, astronomy, geology, communication, telecommunication, and so on; even my ability to write this missive that you read at this time. How would foreign tongued people be able to understand my ˜ngbati, ngbati” language?Some argue that we own all the natural resources of the world: crude oil, gold, manganese, diamond, and so on. Fine, I totally agree. It is the truth. But the question is what would we do with them if the whites have no use for them-would we even know they existed beneath the earth?Remember the Oil glut of the 1980s, when we were told to drink our crude oil. We couldn’t. We are headed that way again.Oftentimes, I get carried away with the idea that really when the heavenliness said ˜let’s now create man in our own image”, they were actually talking about the white man. Don’t quote me.Be it as it may, I stand firm in my conviction that if you chase the white man from your land, you lose the whitetitude! We need these beings. Serioussssssss.

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