I personally I am unpertubed by what Trump really thinks of us... the truth is that there are more shit hole countries than those which are not. More humans live shit hole lives than those who don't.
secondly.

I usually find it rather predictable when a random foreigner calls us "monkeys" (I think the appropriate word is "apes" but what can you expect from an unschooled chinaman?... "monkey" it is) THEN one who has been monikered a "monkey" thinks... that's not so bad... "we" do much worse things to our neighbours. They don't realise that it's a dignity play... it's one thing to say that we are DIRTY, SMELLY, POOR, FOOLISH people. That we can work on... we cannot work on not being a "monkey"

Who is WE? in the group of WE not being uncivilized... I will create a "we" that is WE without ME and call it "we". So "we" do like throwing bottles of water and soft drinks out of the cars or when just walking then blame "poor" chinese workmanship because they built roads without drainage.
"We" also tend feed animals in game parks - totally disregarding "do not feed the animals" notices. "We" also drive like rude maniacs. I have been around the park a bit and have seen really "uncivilized" behaviour... pooping on beaches and pissing on walls by our african brothers. Heck I heard a story of indians in Delhi who used to piss to much on a university wall despite all attempts to stop them from pissing on it but they only stopped after images of their Gods were painted on the wall. We read about all the rape stories in New Delhi... so it means being "uncivilized" is an aspect of culture - it can change! but can you rescue yourself and your kids from being called Monkeys? look around your house right now.. see all your babies running around and know that the chinaman called them "monkeys"... they cannot do anything in his eyes to rescue themselves from their monkey state... they can do anything but because they were born by monkeys... nothing can change.

I used to be optimistic like you Masukuma and thought that culture can change but the more I live and see and learn the more pessimistic I get. The biggest driver of change of culture was oppression more specifically colonialism and forceful conversion into religion be it christianity or Islam. Now that the whole world has rights every "uncivilized" behavior has its defenders. In the name of diversity anything and everything goes.

Listen to this talk about open defacation in India. Kubadilisha watu ni ngumu.

Black People doing nothing comparative to earn them respect accorded to other races.

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Kenyans need to develop a thick skin.
If you get annoyed or upset every time someone thinks or says something racist or negative of you, you will have a heart attack every 2 seconds. Racism, tribalism, sectarianism and so on are just elements of human nature in a fallen world.
You cannot control what someone else thinks of you.
Like politics, think of INTERESTS and not EMOTIONS. In your emotions, if you chase and close down this company because someone thinks you are a monkey, you may put 1000 people out of work and will not change the young Chinese man's mind about you.
The same thing happened to many African Americans in USA after slavery. They have been crying racism to this day, blaming it for everything including their own poverty, yet funnily enough, young immigrant blacks from Africa and the Caribbean who go there and do not share the same sentiments get ahead very fast because they work hard and obey the law for the most part. And the African Americans end up saying blacks from Africa and the Caribbean are "favoured" while they (African Americans) are cursed by racism! That does not even make sense! Compare also with the Jews who were fried by Hitler in an event far worse than slavery IMHO. They bounced back fast from the ghettos they were confined in, even in New York for Eastern European Jews, rising fast from their own sweat and leaving those ghettos for the blacks who are still there to this day using racism as an excuse for failure.
Sticks and stones break bones, words do not cut or punch unless your skin is not thick and a man can destroy your ego by calling you a monkey or a dragon fly or an ant. If you know you are not those things, why does it bother you so much?

Ni hayo maoni yangu tu

Fully agree. Primitivity, violence and savagery are our forte.

A pointer as to why Nairobi and many Sub-Saharan cities are basically massive violent slums.

The failure ya Mzungu is attributed to the individual and the success to the group. For mwafrica - failure belongs to the group but success is individual

So Dangote is to be considered a monkey until all africans figure themselves out of poverty?


I have written this over and over again


it's time to refuse to put up with this mindset...

A work colleague of mine,the sister went to senegal as a young missionary with the mormom church. Once back,she said she will never ever go back to africa again. I asked what are the reasons. He told me the sister saw things that she would describe as uncivilised

Then stop mixing the two together... being foolish, poor, dirty, uncouth are things we can work on. but being OUR RACE is something we cannot and shouldn't have to work on. Don't swallow the bait and start discussing elements of culture being linked to biology. I am OK with people saying that Africans are generally POOR, FOOLISH, UNCOUTH, DIRTY PEOPLE! those are statistical facts! All elements of culture that are hard to change but possible to change. but don't attribute that to being black or african (a biological fact) or somehow consider black/African as being sub human - I can point to the same issues elsewhere... as we heard more than 50% of people who poop outside are in india...
We are unlikely to solve these issues in my lifetime so I am unwilling to submit myself to be assessed by the marking scheme some races conjured up to determine how me and my kids are to be considered human.
I am black, I am African PERSON... A matter of history and biology... I didn't say I am not a member of a race of people that is statistically poor or dirty or smelly... but I am a member of a race of PEOPLE! I refuse to earn my dignity and the dignity of my children in the eyes of these races by doing things.