I mean, look at these people:
Now, correct me if I am wrong, but does black plus white not equal mixed anymore? In most parts of the world, black plus white still equals black, but I guess where oil is concerned, they are willing to make a concession. And what these newspeople seem to think is important is not that children are now being used by rogues to make money, but that they would use "foreign" children to do such a thing. And so now they're reaching for little white lies in order to get their scoop - at the dismissal of other kids who, being fully black, don't matter quite as much. They get to be the footnotes in this saga.
Her mama genes strong o! But, fine, young British Margaret Hill (who has lived in Nigeria her whole short life along with her parents who have lived there for most or all of theirs, and one of whom is so Nigerian as to not be confused with anything - anything - else) is free and the expat community in Port Harcourt is breathing again. But the whole thing is leaving me with a bitter taste in my mouth, and I'm not altogether pleased.
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The British media have turned selective citizenship into an art form. Linford Christie was a Jamaican born sprinter until he became a British silver medallist. When he tested positive for drugs he became Jamaican again.
It is a self parody and goes back to Imperialist times when one was granted British subjugation.
Glad the girl is back but it really does amaze how teh media decides to be selective over one case, ignoring the hundreds of others.
I believe I have talked about the media on more than one occasion before. My dear, if you bother yourself with those people you will end up with a migraine...
Don't hate the foreign media, hate the Nigerian government and local press! She is British and the British embassy stepped up to the plate! What did the Nigerian government/media did regarding the Nigerian that died on the plane after being deported, beaten and gagged? Please!
i was thinking the same thing
i mean Yahoo news had it on the Top Ten list of news stuff on sunday or monday
and i'm thinking SO WHAT
isn't she naija
what's the story
then i saw her papi's face and it made sense
and then to add insult to injury
Time on July 6 i believe had the father's comment on their dealing with the grief in their quotable section and i was like
WHO CARES
MERCY
so yeah
i feel u
10 times over
@ atutupoyoyo: you talk true! and i'm feeling this your name.
@ caretaker: what exactly did the british embassy do? i'm asking in part because all i've read in the news is about what the nigerian officials were doing to get the girl back. the only people making noise are the british journalists as they lie through their ethically dodgy teeth...
@ kafo: let's not say we don't care, because these are kids after all and it's not right how they're being exploited. but we insist that ALL children should be accorded the same kind of care and attention, because magret (as i'm sure her mother calls her) isn't more special than any of the other kids that were kidnapped. i'm getting pissed all over again...
I WAS THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING. AT FIRST, I WAS LIKE, THESE PEOPLE HAVE SUNK TO A NEW LOW, ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT THIS IS KIDNAPPED CHILD NUMBER THREE IN SIX WEEKS.
WHY DID I NOT HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT THOSE CHILDREN? ARE THEY ANYLESS IMPORTANT NEWS THAN A MIXED CHILD? CAN U IMAGINE, RACIAL PROFILING IN MY OWN COUNTRY?
NONSENSE.
it is amazing when children have to get involved in these issues of race, but we Nigerians are the ones that brought it upon ourselves- for example I am a Nigeria but I happen to own an American pasport, can u imagine that in the Nigerian house, the people that were there for visas for Nigeria were attented to first and people like myself that came for passport renewal had to wait till the end. I asked the nigerian gentleman why Nigerians were not attended to first, and he stated that I am thinking like an American..... So does that mean Nigerians put ourselves last or what????? Maybe I should have gotten a visa instead.
The man ugg o!!!
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