MAKE FRIENDS NOT ENEMIES by #Sheundam If the leaders of the country had used the country’s enormous wealth judiciously to cater for the welfare of their citizens, even the rich white people would be sending their children to school in Nigeria. They will be looking for jobs in Nigeria. They will respect Nigeria and Nigerians, whether such Nigerians are at home or abroad. But the whites are not doing that because they don’t see why ,with all their enormous wealth, African citizens would be coming to do menial jobs in their countries. Why would they respect us? Seriously, do we Africans really deserve their respect? Your guess is as good as mine. After-all, charity begins at home. Whether we are white or black, real pride can only come from what we can do for others, not what we can do for ourselves, or worse still what others can do for us. I have said it before. The only meaningful way to confront our self-hatred as humans is by being useful to others at every given opportunity. The point being that whether we are white or black is not a guarantee that everything is OK for us as human beings. Whether black or white, we still lack, we still need. We still struggle to better our lives. We still hassle. The bottom-line is that there are things that go beyond the colour barrier into the realm of humanism. And we need to seize every opportunity to be useful to our fellow humans. We need to make friends, not enemies.......
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 12:46:58 +0000