[liloldlady]

Originally Posted by eire

Sir,

The article is an intelligent, lucid and well thought out commentary to ethnic bashing in Nigeria and among Nigerians, but I have to be honest with you.

It will be naive and inept not to highlight those parts of the Nigerian cancer that eats at the soul of every single Nigerian anywhere in the world. Let it be known that every single Nigerian is not responsible for the negativity that beclouds us all.

There is a cancer at the fore of our problems, that cancer comes from some Nigerians, government, politicians, some ethnic groups and some criminals.

The problem of Nigeria is fear, laziness, lack of honesty and political correctness has ensured we continue to put up with the same issues from nearly 5 decades when these matters could have been identified to certain persons and institutions; name them, shame them and then proceed to cut that cancer out.

What I am trying to say is that in the US for example, the mostly likely drive by shooter is an African American but when the crime is reported it is called a black crime (that is any black person from France to Timbuktu), whereas if it had been a white crime the western media might call it the Detroit motorbike gang or white trailer park trash from West Virginia.

Nigeria is being placed in the list of terrorist countries (axis of evil) because the Northern part of Nigerian(our Muslim brothers) have decided to behave like some middle eastern terrorists who they have more ties to than the southern part of Nigerian.
So, should we keep quiet and not name this as a northern muslim problem and then proceed to deal with it using local and international support because we want to be politically correct?

I have just returned from a holiday to Thailand where quite a number of Nigerians of the Igbo ethnicity who want to get rich quick and make name in their villages using drugs money, have been incarcerated indefinitely while some are awaiting death sentences. Now, should we highlight the fact that these men are igbos mainly? If we do highlight it without raising ethnic sentiments could we then perhaps use such a highlight to address the issue among igbos leaders and among the community?

There is in the Huston area and other parts of the US, and from what I saw in the United Kingdom most Nigerian frausdsters have some sort of Yoruba or Benin name, it is not co-incidence that credit card and bank fraud is persisitent among the South western Nigerian population, perhaps we should keep quiet and call it a black or Nigerian crime rather than reach out to our brothers of that extraction on how we can change the mentality.

I think we all get the message here; I am not going to be quiet with any issues so as to be politically correct. Most Paedophiles and serial killers are white caucasian males, many muggers are western born blacks, many 419 persons are nigerians from the south and the likely Islamic terrorist in Nigeria is a hausa/fulani muslim.

We cannot resolve these issues if we keep our mouths shut all in name of ethnicity. That is why Nigeria is having problems moving forward!

Wow!! you do paint with very broad brush strokes, don't you?
The hoodlums who snatch bags Under the Mary land bridge in lagos, are western born blacks.
The just defeated Tamil Tigers are from Sokoto.