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This is from the same school of non-thought as "China is more racist towards black people than the US." The reason why these arguments are wrongheaded and stupid (and the reason why Elon's algorithm is enthusiastically pushing them) is that they remove attention from the systemic issue that has the ability to end your civilisation, and focuses it on petty problems. Whatever African Americans are guilty of against Africans, the fact remains that they have ZERO systemic ability to oppress Africans. The absolute worst they can do is call you "African booty scratcher", or maybe shoot you during a dispute. And avoiding that is easy - you just need to not be around them. The other group of people in question don't need you to go to their country before they can do anything to you. They literally install your governments. They use their giant soft power machine to write your laws - we're currently fighting against the passage of one such law in Nigeria which wants to turn a Bill Gates-funded NGO into a federal institution governing food and agriculture. The last I checked, there is not a single Black American in the history of the world who ever looked at a map and thought "I should cross the ocean and go to this land whose name I can't pronounce, subvert its institutions, take over its government violently, enslave its people, and turn it into my private resource mine with laws forbidding African people from moving around inside their own country." Some people did that and literally renamed the entire African country they conquered after a British paedophile (Rhodesia). They literally launched Project Coast in South Africa where they used Africans as test subjects for biological experiments of all kinds (Google it, it's not illegal to learn new things yet). A European settler farmer literally fed 2 South African women to his pigs last year. How did Elon Musk's dad come to have ownership of an emerald mine in Zambia? Was it the locals that generously gave it to him? Or did Musk and his people spend the 19th and 20th centuries fighting brutal wars of occupation where millions of Africans died? What exactly did the "Black Americans" do that is so terrible in comparison? They called you a slur and they shot a kid? You people should honestly touch grass please. There is never any excuse to say something this unconscionably stupid.

"The presence of brown, runny human excreta with flies buzzing around it on the plate served to me by a restaurant raises serious questions about its presentation, hygiene and best practices. My jollof rice is at stake here!" Una still dey speak plenty grammar with people that are not speaking English with you. E say na "our democracy is at stake." Which yeye democracy do we have? Is our president democratically elected? Which election did he win? Whenever una tire for all this performance artistry sha.

The thing about imperialism is that it is ubiquitous and impossible to avoid. Nigerians who think they can have intelligent discussions around politics, economics and business without acknowledging imperialism are just like a castrated man who wants to marry a wife and have kids, but doesn't want to acknowledge his condition. I'm sorry, but just because you're in denial, or the subject makes you uncomfortable, or you don't want to upset your white friends and investors by talking about it does not mean that this 800-foot elephant in the room is going to disappear. The imperial system you live under is why you eat imported rice and your bread is made with imported wheat, while your own agricultural land is used for industrial monoculture plantations growing export crops you can't eat like cocoa and cashew. Imperialism is why your kid goes to school wearing a neck tie, a wool sweater, a thick blazer and cotton socks while the temperature outside is 33⁰C. Imperialism is why you put on your TV news and the presenter is chewing her tongue desperately trying and failing to mimic the accent of a public school headteacher from Abingdon-on-Thames, whereas literally nobody in the history of her watching audience has ever sounded like that. Imperialism is why your central bank interest rate is always double digit, which means that consumer credit is literally nonexistent. No amount of roundtable sessions, seminars, and breakfast meetings with the bankers committee and PhD economists can change that basic eternal reality of your economy. Imperialism is why despite having double digit central bank lending rates, your currency somehow manages to always face inflationary pressure and regularly posts double digit percentage losses in a single day. You can do all the clever economic chart drawings and financial engineering you want, but they are completely useless in the face of imperialist decisions like Structural Adjustment Programs, which you experienced by other names from 1986 to 1988 and from 2023 to 2025. Imperialism is why you can have all your lovely ideas for leadership and governance, and a young population that is hungry for good leadership, but everytime you go into a "democratic election", you end up coming out with Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu. You can read all your "Why Nations Fail" and do all your "PVC sensitisation drives" and do all the "protect the votes" on election day, and at the end of all the wahala, the INEC chairman will announce that a crippled goat with craw-craw has won the election and if you don't like it you will go and meet Kekere-Ekun in court. Imperialism is why when you are having sex with your partner, you moan in English and make American noises even though you've never left Owerri before, and your sexual encounters always happen with a specific sequence that starts from oral and culminates in doggy - it's because all the porn you have ever watched in your life has been hosted and curated by American platforms, and you have over time taken on their sexual personality as your own. Imperialism is why you build with cement blocks plastered with concrete in your 34⁰C climate, even though concrete generates vast amounts of heat as it cures, and it can take years to fully cure, during which time it slowly cooks you in your own house - but rammed earth which your ancestors used is only just becoming a thing once again because white people have "discovered" it and put a brand on it that makes it desirable after they once labelled it as 'primitive'. I could go on and on. As long as you're determined to avoid confronting the ubiquitous and all-pervasive reality of imperialism in Nigeria, you're not really ready to confront whatever problem you are facing, from food to healthcare to education to public policy to poverty. If you're not acknowledging that underlying reality, you're just another Nigerian wasting their whole life performing the appearance of thinking, and creating useless content.

Zelensky's repeated outbursts against Trump would appear suicidal and counterproductive until you recognise the reality that neither Trump nor Zelensky make any of the real decisions.