In practice, affirmative action is consonant to the concept of equal treatment. The whole point of equality is to give everyone an equal opportunity to excel and not try to equalize outcomes. Equality means, every athlete, starts the race from the same
Do you remember how humanity has come to realize that segregation and discrimination based on the racial background might be a bad idea through history? The good ol days when we seem to be fighting that segregating people based on color is
A tweet came from the official FBI twitter account about wanted suspects for a business email crime. It had six photos of Nigerian nationals in its first six passport photographs for identification, and naturally, the tweet read: Help the #FBI find six
A bizarre and gory scene unfolded on the streets of Brooklyn. A video surfaced on twitter that showed some young men seemingly parts of the ongoing protests on the streets of Brooklyn. The video starts with one of these boys lighting
It didn’t take long for the protests and narrative surrounding George Floyd’s murder to turn into an election campaign ground mostly used by the democratic candidates to canvas black votes. Implying the death of George Floyd is somehow an indictment of the
Few days into the protests about the brutal and unfair murder of George Floyd, I came across a video of his six-year-old daughter saying, “My Daddy Changed the world.” Her naivety to what is going on is apparent. She had a fair
I have often had to remind people I am discussing with on the internet that I am an individual first; they should stop approximating me as a sum of my sexual, racial identity. I have always found this practice to be grossly
It is almost common to look around a protest about black lives and social issues affecting black people as a result of their race and see a white woman who deems it appropriate to base her argument around the genitals of the
All over the 50 states of the United States, there have been massive protests against racism and police brutality. Due to the death of an African American man who was killed in Minneapolis by a police officer. Despite that he was
I grew up hearing the word “Ekwensu” used by my Igbo family and friends to represent the Igbo interpretation of the Christian Satan. If someone did something terrible, they would be called a child of Ekwensu, who is bound to go to
By most accounts of today’s world, the Igbo culture of the West African Niger basin is one of the most progressive, or simply put, egalitarian cultures the world has ever seen. Starting from its very simplistic and highly inclusive political
People in the 21st century seem to have quite a shallow idea of the slavery enterprise, especially as it concerns the black race. When people talk about slavery, they tend always to mean the Transatlantic slave enterprise – this isn’t just shallow
“Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized – the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty, and live almost like animals.” On its own, someone would not readily attribute the quote above to the figure we have all been endeared to
When discussing the racial disparity and systematic racism as a major set back for the black community in America, there is a reason why the likes of Thomas Sowell nearly always never leave the comfort zone that reinforces their narrow arguments about
There have been arguments that suggest the independence of African nations from European imperialism atones for the gracelessness of the colonial endeavor. The idea that setting a people free from your unfair authority imposition somehow absolves one of the sinful nature of
Africa is a vast continent with thousands of ethnic groups and subgroups, cultures with varying traditions and spiritualties. Praying the African way as used in the title of this piece, is not to imply that this one way represents the totality of
