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2022-07-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

40 Americans Trace Ancestry To Nigeria, Adopt Igbo Names

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Posted by Fred 2022-07-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Uh, why?

Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-01 00:11|| 2022-07-01 00:11|| Front Page Top

Neanderthal nostalgia. It was a better time, a better place.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-01 00:12|| 2022-07-01 00:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I've been watching a "Nollywood" historical film set in the Medieval Islamic kingdom of Zazzau called Amina. I'm kind of into it: violent, sordid, with a kind of budget Game of Thrones feel to it. Slavery is depicted as not only normal, but the basis of the kingdom's economy - and the source of the protagonists' wealth. There are absolutely no white people in the movie.

It's not exactly made for the delicate sensibilities of a Western audience. To put it mildly.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-07-01 00:51|| 2022-07-01 00:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh look, literally dehumanizing Africans. How unusual.

I've met a ton of Africans and most are fine, upstanding Christians who go to church, practice charity and actually try to live their lives according to the Ten Commandments.

But hey, Neanderthals, right?

Posted by Albemarle Snerert7268 2022-07-01 02:59|| 2022-07-01 02:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Is there an Igbo equivalent for Barry Soetoro? Just curious.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-07-01 04:57|| 2022-07-01 04:57|| Front Page Top

#6 How many Muslim Africans have you met, Albemarle Snerert7268? How many animists? How many Communist atheists? Did you meet your upstanding Christians in situ, or had they emigrated to your part of the world, wherever outside of Africa that might be? What do they say about their fellow Africans who are not Christian?

For information: according to the CIA World Factbook, Nigerian society breaks down ethnically as follows:

Hausa 30%, Yoruba 15.5%, Igbo (Ibo) 15.2%, Fulani 6%, Tiv 2.4%, Kanuri/Beriberi 2.4%, Ibibio 1.8%, Ijaw/Izon 1.8%, other 24.7% (2018 est.)

And religiously:

Muslim 53.5%, Roman Catholic 10.6%, other Christian 35.3%, other .6% (2018 est.)

The native Jews of Nigeria are part of that 0.6%, but unless you spent time among the Igbo, also known as Biafrans, or certain other communities, you’ll not have met any of them to bear witness that they’re also fine, upstanding citizens— they are content keeping to themselves.

Separately, you’ll want to note that Sahara Reporters is a Nigerian effort — Nigerian expats tweeting reports from somewhere safer than the Ould Sod, I believe. But do go on accusing them of racistically dehumanising their fellow Nigerians.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-01 04:58|| 2022-07-01 04:58|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ What you have experienced Ab, and what many of us in the South and elsewhere have also experienced is cultural assimilation. The assimilation of diverse cultures and peoples is what this country is all about.

The changing of family names, street names, schools, and military installations is simply the casting off of colonial roots, history, and unity found in cultural assimilation.

When people like Ben Carson, Clarence Thomas, Susan Rice, Sean Combs, or George Foreman adopt Igbo names, call me. I will relook the issue.

Until then, the adoption of tribal names will represent a tool of separation and division, not unity.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-01 05:02|| 2022-07-01 05:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Reparations preparations

Posted by Frank G 2022-07-01 06:50|| 2022-07-01 06:50|| Front Page Top

#9 I was referring to comment 2 which is literally dehumanizing Africans.

Yes, it's completely racist. They are characterizing an entire race/nation based their extremely limited experience consisting of internet articles. 216 million people live in Nigeria. What percentage of them did they personally interact with? Whatever the number is, I'm fairly certain we can safely round it to 0% without losing much precision. Grow up.

Posted by Albemarle Snerert7268 2022-07-01 07:57|| 2022-07-01 07:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Neanderthal were not African. It's you doing the linking. Get over it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-01 08:02|| 2022-07-01 08:02|| Front Page Top

#11 based their extremely limited experience consisting of internet articles.

You mean Besoeker? You’re missing the wrong target with that shot. I notice that you still haven’t answered any of my questions about your own experience, my dear.

comment 2 which is literally dehumanizing Africans.

Neanderthals are literally humans. Scientifically so — Homo neanderthalensis is sometimes referred to in the literature as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. If you are a Homo sapiens sapiens you contain Neanderthal DNA. More if you are caucasian than if you are a sub-Saharan African, somewhere in between if you are a typical African-American or a North African.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-01 11:14|| 2022-07-01 11:14|| Front Page Top

#12 :Heh: On my mom's side there is Hugenot French and gentry English (Mayflower colonist no less!). On my dad's side there is recently German while the family name if Norse settlers in Scotland...

All of which makes me an ...American. Maybe I should legally change my name to James Pierre von Bloodeaglesson...?

Posted by magpie 2022-07-01 13:26|| 2022-07-01 13:26|| Front Page Top

#13 If you are a Homo sapiens sapiens you contain Neanderthal DNA.

Perhaps he's content just being a Homo.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-01 15:00|| 2022-07-01 15:00|| Front Page Top

#14 Were the Igbo the people enslaved or the people taking slaves? Because...

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-01 16:16|| 2022-07-01 16:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Both, according to Wikipedia, Rob.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-01 16:20|| 2022-07-01 16:20|| Front Page Top

#16 I think this is a sweet tourism grift thought up by some tribal elders. Kind of like becoming a "lord" by buying an inch of land in Scotland.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-07-01 16:37|| 2022-07-01 16:37|| Front Page Top

#17

Remember it is about "color" not race.

Because "Science" has told we ALL originated from Africa via "Lucy". Therefore, we all have African lineage.
😮

Posted by NN2N1 2022-07-01 16:45|| 2022-07-01 16:45|| Front Page Top

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