RACISM ISN’T BORN by Obidike Chukwuebuka

RACISM ISN'T BORN by Obidike Chukwuebuka

RACISM ISN’T BORN by Obidike Chukwuebuka

 

Racism is taught, inherited and passed on in groups and families. It is one of the most dangerous crimes in our society that can stay hidden for several years without anyone suspecting because the core offenders know how to pretend and hide their crime in-between a joke and an insult.



Like some other vicious crimes, racists know how to collude, recruit and create more of their fellow racists. The only reason some of them deal with black people is either because the black person is doing for them a job which otherwise a white person can’t do. Or the black person is a good customer in a shop owned by a white racist who otherwise would have nothing to do with a foreigner. Or perhaps he’s the landlord who needs your regular weekly rent, and he doesn’t live in same building.

 

On the other hand, there are so many white people out there in the world, who truly and genuinely appreciate the company of foreigners no matter the pigmentation of their skin. These are white people who have travelled far and mixed with different races of people during their journey in life.



You will know the difference when you meet a white man who has never travelled out of his little island, and the one who has spent the last 35 years working with NNPC in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, or running a Construction Company in Dubai or a Coco Processing Company in Ghana or shipping containers to numerous customers in Ariaria, Aba. You will surely see the sincerity in their tone.

 

You will know when French President Emmanuel Macron visited Nigeria, and insisted on visiting Fela Kuti’s shrine in Lagos. He loved African music of course. You will know that you are dealing with a genuine human being when the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Nigeria and was happy to deal with our local diet called Pounded Yam. But you will also know, when Stephen Lawrence was murdered in the UK by a group of white boys and the crimes was covered up for several years by white police officers. You will know, when a Nigerian young boy Damilola Taylor was murdered by a group of white boys, and again covered up.



Nobody is born a racist – society created them and continued to cover up their crimes in certain parts of the world. They don’t know that we know, but we know that they don’t know that we know.

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