It’s easier than you think to get the measure of Kemi Badenoch – just ask around in Nigeria | Nels Abbey
Oluwatoyin Adepoju
Cornelius Hamelberg
- as Nels Abbey
(maybe not exactly a hack writer)
hacks down our Yoruba sister,
with blows more sinister
and more vicious than a
Boko Haram machete
and there’s more of the same kind
Understandably, and it’s no surprise at all, that he’s writing all this something in the main left stream media -The Guardian, a proper, unabashed, no-holds-barred mouthpiece for the Labour Party
That’s what everybody’s saying today 👍
how they love Nikki Giovanni
Nels Abbey, hopefully, no missionary,
postcolonial relation to Westminster Abbey
or to dear Kemi’s sister Abbey Lincoln
has to be suitably pugnacious,
otherwise, if he wants to be decent
and really nice to our Kemi
he knows that it’s going to be “no dice”
from the Guardian Management and the advice
from them would be to take his shoddy goods
and go peddle them elsewhere
like the proverbial House Negro,
the message being yes, Bilbo
you too can go peddle your goods
somewhere else
Mister.
Such fierce , fiery thoughts
That’s how it is with the partisan press.
Every House Negro knows this
Interesting:
“ but for some the talk was of a person “desperately trying to please the conservative white establishment” and “subjugating her own people to make Britain look good in the face of white nationalism”.
I understand where Nels Abbey is coming from (thankfully, he shouldn’t have to change his name either) but this is where it doesn’t really gel and I’m keeping the peace and holding my fire until after Baba Kadiri has weighed in on this matter
“It’s time for a truce. Badenoch could leave Nigeria alone (and Black and Brown people more broadly), and perhaps Nigeria could reciprocate, because the truth is, she has troubles enough. The Tory left thinks she’s too rightwing, the Tory right thinks she is not rightwing enough – and Nigel Farage thinks she and her party, gobbled up by Reform UK, would make a lovely supper.” ?
If Kemi had not travelled to Nigeria on an official goodwill mission as the UK’s Minister of Trade, and if V-P-Shettima had not entered into that kind of unfortunate altercation with Kemi,that she should change her Yoruba name all this tittle-tattle about Nigeria would not have arisen; there was never that kind of tittle-tattle about Kenya when Brother Obama was running for President -twice - or images of India as a punchbag when Leo Varadkar was elected Taoiseach of Ireland
Santana: Caravanserai
Cornelius Hamelberg
Re - ”It’s easier than you think to get the measure of Kemi Badenoch – just ask around in Nigeria” (Nels Abbey)
Whilst waiting for Baba Kadiri’s input, not necessarily in this thread, and true too, Nigeria is not Kenya, nor is race and conflict in United States as volatile as what’s happening and has been happening in the United States, since Marvin Gaye sang “ Inner City Blues” ,I’m left wondering, overall, did Kenyans or a broad sampling of Kenyans’ view / opinions about Barack Obama - or their review of Brother Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) and his The Audacity of Hope significantly impact public opinion or the outcome of the Presidential elections which he won?
"A week is a long time in politics" and much will happen between now and the next general elections in the UK , during which time Kemi could write a biography or publish a vision of how she would like her beloved UK to be. There could be many advantages in her doing so, but the main disadvantage could be that some freewheeling patriotic journalists in The Guardian, could smell out something cooking think there's going to be a feast, take out their knives and forks to do her in, journalists like N. Abbey
There are those who want Kemi Badenoch to go on the campaign trail demanding reparations y’all and free immigration visas for all Nigerians who would like to exodus from Nigeria to where Nels Abbey and compatriots currently find themselves , namely, The New Jerusalem , Merry England, The Promised Land. They would like to see Kemi proclaiming like Emma Lazarus ,unfettered immigration to the United Kingdom and for her to announce, a new immigration policy along the lines of The New Colossus
Of relevance to the Black Diaspora in the UK and in the United States, and Nigeria:
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dr. Oohay
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Indeed Dr Oohay,
BK ain’t Barack Obama
And this is not opium-induced,
"Beauty (Kemi) is truth, truth ( Kemi) beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." -
at the moment
Earlier, I meant to say
nor is race and conflict in the United Kingdom as volatile as what’s happening and has been
happening in the United States, since Marvin Gaye sang “ Inner City Blues”
Specially for a Jazz connoisseur like you this festive season (Hanukkah coincides with Christmas ( I almost wrote “coincides with the Christmas yams”) and the Happy New Year
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