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Black Brothers And Their White Chics
By
Uche Nworah
Our black sisters in the UK must
still be fuming right now, particularly those from the
Caribbean islands over this latest ‘affront’, which is
like a slap in their faces and a vote of no confidence
on their beauty, womanly virtues, and on the other
characteristics that brothers look for in women these
days.
Ashley Cole’s
marriage to Girls Aloud Singer (Cheryl Tweedy) is
not surprising, it is consistent with the age old habit
of successful black men in the UK, (and in America too I
guess) abandoning sisters from their ‘hood, choosing
instead to cross over the street and find their love
matches amongst white chics. I’m sure some of these
sisters, with their hairs tucked nicely under hair
driers in Peckham’s many beauty shops, the many others
putting finishing touches to their nails, and the ones
waxing their faces in the quest to enhance their appeal
would be cursing and swearing at the same time, out of
disgust and disappointment and thinking out aloud ‘damn,
another one taken, what’s with these brothers?’.
Such outbursts may not be surprising
as black sisters would normally regard brothers like
Ashley and his likes that prefer white chics to their
black sisters as lost causes and tormented souls. This
habit usually surfaces whenever the going gets good for
the brothers, that is when they suddenly realise that
their black sisters ‘goods’ aren’t good enough anymore.
But do you really blame brothers like
Ashley, and Sol Campbell, his friend and former Arsenal
team mate who also had his current white girlfriend
(interior designer
Fiona Barratt) in tow at the Ashley Cole
wedding. This despite his previous weird experiences
from his off-and-on liaisons with 44 year-old celebrity
interior designer (Kelly
Hoppen)
which ruined his 2005/2006 football season and
almost cost him his football career. And speaking about
Sol Campbell, what is it about him and interior
decorators? Oh! Plus older women. Weird isn’t it?
And what is it about white chics that
lure successful brothers like them away, so much so as
to make them forget about all the bootylicious
endowments and soul food skills of our black sisters?
Could this be as a result of low
self-esteem or inferiority complex on the part of these
brothers, a situation where they begin to see the white
chics as their passports and tickets to breaking into
the traditional and ultra conservative English society,
and party circuits, or is it just that the white girls
‘do it’ better than our black sisters?
This is really worrying because it is
our black sisters that should be crawling those Soho
night clubs and raiding those West end boutiques as
footballers’ wives (WAGs), and deservedly too, not these
white chics that would use our brothers and eventually
dump them when the going gets tough.
Maybe these brothers should speak to
Frank Bruno first before getting in on the act of
crossing over. The former heavyweight champion probably
is still suffering from the stress of separating from
his ex-wife who seemed to have jumped ship when Frank’s
chips were down. And to think that it is us, the
brothers and our black sisters that rallied round him
when he was going through his
rough patch in 2003.
If you ask me, I think that our black
sisters should stage a walkout and protest match at the
Soho headquarters of the Football Association (FA), they
should also put in their complaints in writing and
demand the FA to launch an inquiry immediately into this
growing trend of brothers abandoning their roots. If not
checked, our sisters would lose all the few good (and
rich) men (footballers) still around.
Thierry Henry is already taken, and
by whom? Sure you guessed right, by a white chic.
Christian Kerembeau, remember him? He was in the
French world cup winning squad of 1998; and has been
long taken by the supermodel
Adriana who now also doubles as his wife. Even young
Theo Walcott, the great black hope, didn’t you see his
white WAG (acronym for footballers wife and girlfriend
invented by the British press, apparently the reasons
for England’s poor fortune at the World Cup) hanging out
with other WAGS during the World Cup in Germany? Even
Jermain Defoe, the petit sized Totenham Hotspurs misfit
also always has a white chic in tow.
In fact, all the available black
footballers are heavily into white chics, now you see
where I’m coming from? This surely is worrying. It is
only our black footballers from Africa who still manage
to patronize the ethnic community as regards their
choice of girlfriends or wives, see how Kalu Nwankwo
cleverly went back to his village to capture Amarachi,
even Jay-Jay Okocha too; he imported his from back home.
I don’t know about Celestine Babayaro, but I sure don’t
trust that brother, every time you run into him in a bar
or club in London, you will find him in the company of
white chics. Sisters, please do us and yourselves a big
favour, go grab him now, don’t let him go the way of the
others. It’s your money after all; help keep it in the
black community. And while you are at it, do a stakeout
at Stamford Bridge for
John Obi Mikel, it’s always better to catch them
young before these white chics capture him too. Afterall,
he is now a Chelsea FC football millionaire.
Look at O.J Simpson’s experience in
America; surely he didn’t think that Nicole
Brown-Simpson was going to be there with him forever,
did he? Who wants to hang around an out-of-pocket,
has-been football player? When O.J. lost his star power
and wasn’t attracting much society gossips and column
inches anymore, Nicole walked. Which white chic will
endure that kind of humiliation? But our black sisters
would, they would always be there, come rain or shine or
am I fantasizing here?
This is not to say that black men are
not capable of loving white women and vice versa, and
don’t you go thinking that I’m racially biased/ No, I am
not. I have been with white chics in the past but surely
like attracts like. I’m down with our black sisters any
day, for reasons that wifey won’t like to see me mention
here. Again, don’t call me a racist, we sure do have
lots of unmarried sisters in our communities, and it
would help our cause if the likes of Ashley Cole do also
look their way, as role models to young black men, they
should set the pace.
Who says black sisters cannot
generate enough column inches and media profile, capable
of attracting sponsorships and increased earnings for
black brothers? The person should
check out Naomi Campbell, a sister like that is
capable of reviving dead careers with her on your side.
That’s what I’m talking about.
Our Nigerian sisters though may not
care a hoot about this because they got it all going and
wrapped up for them by our Nigerian brothers, but the
challenge also goes to them. Despite all their sme
sme and garagara, we are yet to hear of
any of them that have landed a big fish since Regina
Askia’s misadventure when she married the
African-American Rudolph Williams, the marriage has
since broken down because of Regina’s continued
extra-marital relationship with Charles Orie, a close
friend of late Obidiozor Otokoto of the 1996 Otokoto
ritual fame.
Our Nigerian sisters should at least
show some sisterly love; by showing some concerns and
worry on behalf of our Caribbean sisters over the way
white chics now grab the few eligible and rich brothers
still available. It could be them next.
Uche Nworah is freelance writer, lecturer and brand
strategist. He studied communications arts at the
University of Uyo, Nigeria and graduated with a second
class honours degree (upper division). He also holds an
M.Sc degree in marketing from the University of Nigeria,
Enugu campus and obtained his PGCE (post-graduate
certificate in education) from the University of
Greenwich where he is currently enrolled as a doctoral
candidate. His articles have been published by several
websites and leading Nigerian newspapers. He received
the ChickenBones Journalist of the Year award in 2006.
Uche can be contacted through
www.uchenworah.com and
info@uchenworah.com.
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Basil Davidson
obituary—By Victoria Brittain—9 July 2010—Davidson [(9
November 1914 – 9 July 2010) a
British
historian, writer and
Africanist] was enthused early on by the end of British
colonialism and the prospects of pan-Africanism in the
1960s, and he wrote copiously and with warmth about newly
independent
Ghana and its leader, Kwame Nkrumah. He went to work for
a year at the University of Accra in 1964. Later he threw
himself into the reporting of the African liberation wars in
the Portuguese colonies, particularly in Angola,
Mozambique, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. . . . In the
1980s, with most of the African liberation wars now
won—except for South Africa's— Davidson turned much of his
attention to more theoretical questions about the future of
the nation state in Africa. He remained a passionate
advocate of pan-Africanism. In 1988 he made a long and
dangerous journey into Eritrea, writing a persuasive defence
of the nationalists' right to independence from
Ethiopia, and an equally eloquent attack on the
revolutionary leader Colonel Mengistu and the regime that
had overthrown Haile Selassie.
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Basil Davidson's "Africa Series"
Different
But Equal /
Mastering A Continent /
Caravans
of Gold /
The King and the City /
The Bible and The Gun
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Africans writing and accounting for their own history.
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teacher, psychologist, and historian.
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By Basil Davidson
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The Price of Civilization
Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Price of Civilization is a book that is essential reading for every American. In a forceful, impassioned, and personal voice, he offers not only a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills but also an urgent call for Americans to restore the virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity. Sachs finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture, offering shortsighted solutions such as stimulus spending or tax cuts to address complex economic problems that require deeper solutions. Sachs argues that we have profoundly underestimated globalization’s long-term effects on our country, which create deep and largely unmet challenges with regard to jobs, incomes, poverty, and the environment. America’s single biggest economic failure, Sachs argues, is its inability to come to grips with the new global economic realities. Sachs describes a political system that has lost its ethical moorings, in which ever-rising campaign contributions and lobbying outlays overpower the voice of the citizenry. . . . Sachs offers a plan to turn the crisis around. He argues persuasively that the problem is not America’s abiding values, which remain generous and pragmatic, but the ease with which political spin and consumerism run circles around those values. He bids the reader to reclaim the virtues of good citizenship and mindfulness toward the economy and one another. |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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info@uchenworah.com posted 23 July 2006
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