? It is bigger than me.

Am jumping right into it people and it is serious. YES! i am concluding for you, This is serious. I want you to forget that it is a human being writing this, I want you to view this as your own thoughts. This topic is bigger than me, than my dad, than anyone of us that has ever lived. I want everyone in the world to read this, because I am angry. Even as I am typing this right now I am punching the keyboard and I am afraid that I am going to ruin my precious computer.

Before I get into it, I dare you! if you are a sane human being with a mind, I say(write) it again I dare you to finish reading this post. If at the end of it you find out that there is nothing useful in this post, leave me the worst comment ever.

My email is Checkmachuks@yahoo.com----send me an email cursing my whole generation. YES! this post is that serious and I don't think I will feel fulfilled except I write my thoughts and experiences down.

Now into the post proper. I know you must be wondering why this affects me so much and why the aggressive tone. YES OOOO. I am aggressive about this issue.

First question:- what is the greatest sporting event?

Answer:- olympics or the world cup. It is hotly debated between the two. I want you to note one thing though,soccer or football is also played in the olympics too! Sadly, the phenomenon is everywhere.
I am going to start with an incident that happened to me during my freshman year.

I was a naive boy from Nigeria and it was my first time in the US. I came in early for the orientation program because I wanted to get used to everything thing quickly. During my orientation week, I met an American, funny i am in America, why would I not meet Americans. But, this one stands out in my brain as a different type of American. I have come to see that there is also a great deal of diversity within the American thinking. We just started talking to each other and we were both excited about being new college students. we had this conversation.

I will call him A.

A- how did find out about this school?
me- on the internet.
A- you mean on a computer?
me- (feeling odd) Yes why not, how else would i be able to access the internet?(phones lol)
A- so you have a lot of computers back home in africa?
I knew where he was going, i knew he was surprised that i found out about the school on the internet and that i was quite up to date on current issues especially the
American war in Iraq.
me-yes we do. (i left him).

Another discussion with the same person.
we were both in the same programming class so we got to see a lot of each other the first year. I kept noting each time how he kept changing our discussion to the present state of Africa.
he was trying to put me in my place. I was sorry for him. but this one day, i had had enough of his 'fucked up 'conversations.

I will skip to the main part of the conversation that will intrigue you. We were talking about sports and suddenly i get this "why is there a lot of aids in Africa?" at first i did not know it was me he was referring to. i just kept quite. I left.
One of my friends that was also there came to my room after the incident to tell me the concluding part of their conversation.
he said the other American with him said "Because African women sleep with monkeys a lot." and the other one concluded it for him "and they sleep with their husbands too" My friend said he objected to what they said and suggested that they apologize to me. To late!. The damage was already done. I smiled when i heard the statement. i just smiled. I am the kind of person that smiles when angry and believe me i am not trying to sound badass!

To say the statement hurt me is an understatement! It is the main thing that led to this post.
I am African and a proud one. I have a mother and a beautiful sister. To have described African women like that, the fool just reduced all the good women i knew to nothing. All i could mutter was 'oloshi' , 'oloriburuku' and 'were'. 'waka' iya ee ni monkey' my native languges.(abuses, more or less curses).

I went to my friend's room to visit him one day and lo and behold i met him again and this time guess what, they started filming me.IMAGINE THE INSULT. am i an animal?. it was surprising. i never again talked to them. just for the record, these guys were no match for me academically. In this same programming class where they were struggling to get a 'C'. I had an easy 'A'.
I am an honor student right now. It surprised them so much because they felt that as an African i should be less intelligent.

It is these kinds of incidents that make me stronger, and i have made a promise to my heritage that i will do anything within my power to help lift the image of Africa.

I asked a question about sports at the beginning of this post, you must be wondering where that fits in.
Here it is on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQv4aIXaGQ4&feature=related

I won't tell you what it is. You watch it.

All over Europe, African players are being victims discrimination. Samuel Eto'o was once an unfortunate victim of such attack. This is just one of the many cases. The spanish coach called Thierry Henry a monkey. In is words he said "show the black shit that you can do it."
Thierry Henry of all people! Discrimination has no boundaries nor respect.

I am not going to blame the Europeans or the Americans. i am going to blame africans. YES! I am.
This might surprise you! but i am. In my country(Nigeria) people prefer to buy gucci shoes, wear dolce and gambana shirts and all sorts of foreign wears, yet they pay no attention to the locally made (ABA MADE) materials that last longer. We prefer to go to countries where we would be called apes other than stay at home to develop our motherland(me included).
Some of these people acquire all the MBAs in the world yet coming back home is a trouble for them.

To all africans in the diaspora. I appeal to you, please let us shed the big boy and big girl image that we acquire or give ourselves whenever we go back home to spend these foreign currencies.
Please let us find something to do to make our homes better. Let us stop running away. The grass is not always greener on the other side. Please stop striving to get yourself this London or Yankee image in Nigeria. Let us be Nigerians. We face a lot in these so called "developed countries" for us to then be going back home to be local champions. Please let us raise the image of the WAZOBIA nation. The African image. I am tired of people asking me if i have a lion in my backyard!

MY OWN OPINION.
After I finish my degree and get the necessary qualifications I am going back home to set up a business that does what i have studied. I am going back home to contribute my quota to Nigeria. The same goes for you whether you are Nigerian or not.
A white guy comes to Nigeria and we are quick to label him as an expatriate while we in their country are unskilled labor.

I asked a friend recently, what type of girl he wants to marry.
his reply."I must to marry half caste ooo! " Even the term half caste is derogatory to biracial people. It is very offensive. Please, biracial people do not fall for these stupid guys that are after you because of your skin color and please correct anyone that calls you an HALF CASTE. It is just like "NIGGER" to African Americans. jut for the record i am not biracial, i am just concerned for them.

Finally, i have promised myself, the rest of my life would be devoted to promoting the image of the African people. Africans, please stop scrambling for those foreign passports. You are accepting defeat by scrambling for it. To those of you who already have it, you are at a better position to help the country. HOME IS HOME. LONDON OR AMERICA IS NOT HOME. I hereby charge every African out there who is reading this post or has read this post to write what he/she would do to uplift the African image immediately after reading this post. I am not begging you to, I am telling you to!

If you think this post is useless and should be removed, send me an email.
If you liked it, tell me what you feel.

NOTE
It is only a small percentage of Europeans and Americans that are like these fools that i described. Americans are generally happy people and welcoming people. All all foriegners are like these black sheep.