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Could it be ignorance or the weakness that suppresses our zeal to make corrections as regards to what has been perceived to be a wrong practice?





The world has witnessed innovative growth virtually in all human endeavors. Scientifically, technologically, socially and more we have continued to evolve because we accepted positive changes and have kept on connecting to what is good for all.





The world has evolved over the years and has kept evolving that’s why some old practices that were ‘repugnant’ have been expunged by mutual (global) acceptance. This is why the slave trading that led to so many Africans been carried away from their ancestral homes and shipped to plantation sites across the world is no longer a thriving business today. At least not at the surface (publicly). Slave Trading has been exposed and condemned as ‘man inhumanity to man’; a crime. The killing of twins as practiced in some African countries has been prohibited and proclaimed as ‘repugnant’, a crime. Thus, aiding the non-practice of such at the present.





Racism has been condemned by all and despite its scarce practice by individuals; it remains a case that is spoken against regularly by world leaders. Racism is a case that has refused to die a natural death despite the vigorous push for it to demise. Its ability to keep ‘smoking’ can’t be far from the existing tolerance it enjoys. You may ask, how?





Before I drive the nail right into the target point, permit me to digress a little bit. Through careful observations and meticulous following of the human modus operandi in this particular century I've come to realize that “most of us” do not just tell ‘ourselves’ lies but equally promote and enmesh ‘ourselves’ with ‘communal lies’. A lie that you are aware of and yet do propagate and others accept it as truth irrespective of the fact that they knew it is a lie; i.e. communal lie. For instance, you all preach against racism but again use the same mouth to declare a sect of humans as 'people of color'. If humans are of different unique colors why then should “you all” ascribe 'people of color' to a particular race? The use of such words 'people of color’ should be in general terms to describe all humans, not a certain race. That’s the truth; we all know it but chose to label it on a particular kind. Thus, ascribing it to a race could amount to an act of racism.





How do you kill racism when we often practice it one way or another? As mentioned above, the use of ‘people of color’ to address a particular race in itself is an act of racism. So, how do you speak against a thing you are guilty of in strong terms? Consciously or unconsciously we have built a strong wall that has helped racism to thrive and keep staring at our faces.





We need to begin to disarm it and throw it to the trash completely. One way to do that is to figure out all of its traits and abstain from them. Calling a particular race ‘people of color’ is a trait of racism. It means you see them differently and carries derogatory undertone. If you call a race people of color, does it mean your race is of no color? If you agree that your race is a color, and other races are of a different color, then logical reasoning should make it clear to you that we are all people of color. Hence tagging a race as people of color is tribalism is a form of racism. When you identify other tribes with demeaning nomenclatures and often spoke highly against them using what you perceive as their wrong-doings as a defense for your actions, well, you’re a tribalist; a racist too. This is because the spirit or attributes that make one act as a tribalist is similar to that which makes one act like a racist. They're twin brothers; racism and tribalism. This kind is most often practiced in African countries, especially Nigeria. As a house owner/Landlord, you decide not to rent out your premises to a particular tribe. That is tribalism and it makes you a racist.





Therefore, why we condemn racism in the international level and encourage the non-usage of ‘people of color’ to identify a particular race, we equally wish to condemn tribalism. Which has eaten deep in some African countries.



