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10/25/2007: "Nigerian echoes Watson's sentiments"

Since then, some of us cannot hear anything else but the outrage of black people who feel demeaned by what Watson has said. So many people have called the man names. To be expected, some have said he is a racist.

Why are we blacks becoming so reactive, so sensitive to any remarks, no matter how well-meaning, about our failure as a race? Why are we becoming like the Jews who see every accusation as a manifestation of anti-Semitism? I do not know what constitutes intelligence. I leave that to our so-called scholars. But I do know that in terms of organising society for the benefit of the people living in it, we blacks have not shown any intelligence in that direction at all. I am so ashamed of this and sometimes feel that I ought to have belonged to another race.

[ The problem in Africa is the same as elsewhere: the smart people like this guy aren't in control because what they're saying isn't popular. The LNSG believes in nationalism not out of a desire to style blacks as inferior, but because we want to live according to European standards and heritage for the sake of completing what our ancestors started. It's a different way of doing things, and vive le difference! Scorn and racism are not nationalism. ]

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