If a racist gets the statistics of how black folks kill themselves annually and the degree of how a black man hates another black man, he will be quick to repent and show black folks around him love.
As Nigerians, before we get so concerned about the movement.”BLACK LIVES MATTER”, let’s do our homework on this, “TRIBE DOESN’T MATTER, WE ARE ONE NIGERIA”.
Let’s be conscious that tribalism among us has more roots than racism acts our fellow negroid get to experience oversees. Yes! We must voice out about the evil of racism, but we should be louder about the evils tribalism has initiated among us.
Our silence about tribalism and being loud about racism at the same time is like endorsing the evil among us and exerting our displeasure against the evil from afar even when we know the one among us has higher ripple effects.
For me personally, I can’t breathe when I realized there are some universities and other tertiary institutions where admission cutoff marks and tuition fees favour some tribes.
I’m losing my breath to know that there are political appointments and nominations that are only reserved for some tribes irrespective of merit and credibility. I have been in a state in Nigeria where I was told no one from another tribe in the state has ever become governor as a particular tribe which is the majority has momentarily ruled.
I get short of oxygen anytime I hear stories of folks telling me their parents refused to endorse their marital progress because their supposed spouses are from tribes their parents are not comfortable with. We thought we had seen enough growing up when our parents told us we shouldn’t play with the neighbour's children and eat at our neighbour's place because they are not from our tribe.
I didn’t know how I survived without a respirator after my Sunday school teacher told me and other folks in church that Christians should marry from their tribe to avoid marital issues as it is justified in the scriptures only to realize later that it was an aberration and an error from our Sunday school teacher.
Someone needs to lead me to the intensive care unit after I got to know there are ministries and denominations where pastors of some tribes can’t get to the top of ministerial affairs because the general overseers and top church leaders feel they can’t trust some ministers as their tribe would have corrupted their salvation realities.
How about employment opportunities that favours some tribes and markets where prices of goods varies by tribe with respect to those who can speak a particular language?
How about the different tribes Fulani herdsmen have slaughtered in cold blood?
Are we quick to forget the xenophobic attacks?
To be continued.
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