OPINION: Slave Trade, Racism, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie And The Rest Of Us, By Yemi

So many Africans benefited from Slave Trade as direct participants in catching and selling their likes to Arab and Western Buyers, while others like their wives and children were indirect beneficiaries.

But this surely does not make most or all African ancestors then and their ancestry, even the ones of those who were Slave Sellers, not to be able to condemn Slave Trade.

Now, to Racism, a friend made me know about Chimamanda Adiche's position on it, and I find it so very porous.

Below is like a summary and title of her arguments:

“I am sorry but if you are a white man you don’t get to define what racism is” – Chimamanda Adichie tells R Emmett Tyrrell, editor of ‘American Spectator’

If she thinks racism is about what some white people did and still thinking and doing to Black People, her argument is very porous.

Even her comment of "I am sorry but if you are a white man you don’t get to define what racism is so laced with racism cos she generalized big time.

If she doesn't know many white people in America, Uk, Europe, etc were against Racism even Slave Trade from day one in 2016, to still be generalizing and limiting racism to White against Black, her knowledge of the topic is very faint.

And let me break it down:

"If you generalize to judge Oyinbos to be superior than Africans cos of their skin color, you are also a racist.

If you are so angry at Oyinbos to assume and generalize so wrongly about all their intentions of doing some things to see them as racists, you are also a racist. . .

The moment you judge to generalize by skin color to promote or diminish a race, and not separate the racists from the non racists in the race with phrases like:

"Some or many or few Whites, Arabs, Jews, Africans, you are caught up in Racism."

When Chimamanda, myself and so many billions of people weren't born, there were many Whites, Jews, etc that are not blacks who matched with people like Mlk Jr to protest racism in America and even fought in different ways against Slavery of Blacks in the West".

And like I shared this morning, I grew up to witness daily Nigerians acting racist to mock only a particular type of people often. . . They are the Arab looking parents and children who are called "Kora" that I was told when very young are from Niger Republic but I don't know or haven't confirmed the country they migrated from to Nigeria.