Is it tribalizing or trailblazing?
One step forward two steps backward
Is it head following tail or could it be the tail
Between his legs following his tribal head?
When Nimi Wariboko the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston tells some uncomfortable truths, some people, especially those who are feeling most guilty, just can't take it.
Notes For A Speech from Amiri Baraka : S.O.SThere's the racist White-Black tribalism in which apart from a few uncle tom/house negroes who have never, not even once complained about racism in their new habitat, perhaps in their own eyes seeing themselves in their very elevated new status as the boss white man's new African mascot - like Man Friday and thereby an extension of White privilege - Big English & bowtie etc, while at the other Black tribalist abroad ( not a tom) conveniently takes a position similar to Malcolm X at that Oxford Union Debate, Dec. 3 1964
Is there tribalism among African-Americans - as distinct from. e.g. johnny-come-lately first and second-generation Nigerian-Americans who only recently arrived in the United States, some of whom I suppose still retain some of the old cultural affinities, loyalties, food habits, traditional animosities/ hostilities, etc towards those they believe to be lower than the vermin they left behind them in s-hole country?
I ask because of this Richard Pryor joke :
"I think that niggers are the best of people who were slaves, and that's how they got to be niggers 'cause they stole the cream-of-the-crop from Africa and brought them over here. And God, as they say, works in mysterious ways, so he made everybody a nigger…he brought us all over here — the best — the kings and queens, the princesses, the
Invocation To Mr. ParkerStill tribalising Nigeria/Africa?On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 at 1:57 PM, Nimi Wariboko <nimi...@msn.com> wrote:Dear Colleagues:
This is an article I published in Punch Newspapers Nigeria yesterday, Friday, November 4, 2022. It is about majority-tribe privilege in Nigeria.
Wazobia Republic: The majority-tribe privilege in Nigeria
Majority-tribe privilege is the advantage the Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba enjoy as members of the three big ethnic groups in the country. The mighty advantage of belonging to one of the Big Three, the Wa-Zo-Bia groups, is both unconscious and conscious. For those who enjoy being part of the big tribes, the advantage is unseen to (majority of) them, but it is highly visible to the rest of us that belong to the minority tribes. When national public officials and the media list ethnicities in Nigeria and routinely name Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba, without bothering to mention even one minority tribe, you are reminded that Nigeria is wazobia and the country does not regard your existence. Minority-tribe persons grate under their skin when they hear Wazobia, a portfolio word that reminds them of their exclusion, marginalisation, and irrelevance in the general description of what Nigerian citizenship means. With the way the 2023 elections have become a three-tribe affair, you would be forgiven for thinking they are the only ones in the country.
For more, please click the link below:
https://punchng.com/wazobia-republic-the-majority-tribe-privilege-in-nigeria/
Nimi Wariboko
Boston University
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