Well done @Chris as this is an excellent political speech to rouse the masses.
But if we cut out the rhetoric and focus on how we can be ‘wiser’ against this particular ‘white man’, what’s the worse he’s done to us? Free Basics. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. I mean he’s done lots of great things, but who cares about that, right? Let’s just focus on the evil white skin. But we’ve discussed free basics like India Vs Nigeria and Free Basics and A review of Facebook’s Free Basics in Kenya.
Matter of fact, do a search for ‘Free Basics’ like below - and you will find my dissenting opinion on the negative impact this will have on Nigerian Tech scene. I’ve taken the time to show why this is bad for us - consistently.
Now, what you will realise is that Facebook’s policies (or any policy at all) are not necessarily bad for us - because of white skin. It’s bad for us if it doesn’t align with our long-term interests (whatever that means to us), and we shouldn’t look at things with the narrow prism of race - like below quote.
Let’s not rely on race baiting. Because at the end of the day, how old is this ‘white man’ again? He caused all of Nigerian problems? I thought Nigeria has existed before he was born. Throwing words like ‘slavery’ and ‘slaves’ instead of thinking through that most of our problems have been self-inflicted. By people with exactly the same skin colour like you and I.
I repeat our greatest problem is that - we give too much space and value to shallow thinkers. This starts from our leaders but as evident, affects us as people as well.