My name is Melissa I am Black I saw a post (video) made by an African and I feel a particular thing she said in the video was wrong and it shows she doesn't like Africa and it implies she doesn't believe in Africa and whatever the white man says is true and final.
Yesterday morning I came online and as usual tried to see posts and interesting videos that people made and I was watching a particular video from a very popular person who I respect and look up to for inspiration. I rarely post video contents maybe because I prefer to write everything. Something very strange happened and whatever is making me talk about II is because I felt very bad. I will not mention anyone's name but I will copy and paste my comment here, I am not giving anyone a link to the post but if you want to see please follow last comment on a ladies post nand watch the video and observe what I said and if am wrong then I will apologize.
Here is my comment under the video I watched. Please help me see if what I said was wrong.
You mean to say there's nothing like snakes in that place and what makes you so sure? Even here in Africa you rarely see animal like lions and monkeys, I can just make a video and say whatever I want to say concerning Africa and how beautiful it is. Always be positive about Africa and Africa is a continent not one country. Where I live people visit places like this and feel comfortable. Africa is beautiful and good things come from Africa. Nice video
And the person response was what made me disappointed and blamed myself for commenting on her post. I gave myself to her so she can insult. If I had so much Hive power HP in my account to vote her, even if I insulted her she could have probably laughed and joked about it. For the sake of transparency and to be sure of what am saying let me copy her reply and paste it here. I felt bad over this.
Here we go
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Huh?
I don't know what you're blabbing about. I never said anything - ve, check yourself. Bye 👋
Thank you @maxsieg for coming for my defense and pointing out her wrong. In her defense she said she's proudly African.
I have benefited from white people on this platform more than I have with any black man. Because of this platform I am able to eat comfortably in my house, I am living in a house of 16 persons and because the system of governance in Nigeria 🇳🇬 is poor and many persons are without food makes most of us to be here and sometimes it leads to scammers collecting money from people and going away with it through wrong means. Many persons left the old platform because they felt without worshipping the whales you get nothing. I have worshipped the whales, I have begged people through inbox in their discord to vote me, I have taken loans and asked for free money and people on this platform have given me money and sometimes free money to do whatever I like and help feed my family. I have spoken about how the condition in my local community is and how much help they need and most persons have contributed to it example @nathanpieters gave me 100 Hive to buy food and share and keep some which I wrote a post thanking him and as a result received the highest vote since I started blogging on both Hive and steem from @trafalgar @maxsieg hired me to distribute food to people and in turn pay me for doing that. @rightwing670 is now like a family member who I talk to anytime of the day, we have know ourselves for a very long time now and he has never failed to assist me whenever I call on him even when he has a problem he comes to my aid. All these people are white people. The likes of @nanzo-scoop started up voting me since steem and even when he was powering down upgraded his auto vote from 10% to 25% so I still get good votes. All this people I came across them on Hive. Sometimes I beg for upvotes sometimes I get sometimes I don't but all this while I was living in Africa, staying under hot and sometimes cool weather and situations.
Why am I saying all of this?
The fact that we have freedom of speach doesn't mean we shouldn't be responsible with what we say. I want to correct an impression. Africa is a continent and not a country. In Africa we have so many countries. We have Eqypt Tunisia Algeria which they all have white skin tone and we have Nigeria Ghana Guinea Cameron, Senegal which are purely black. Within these countries we have countries doing better than other countries and have a wonderful Government system and good hospitals and roads and stable electricity. Some are doing really poor.
How can you say in Africa you can't dare go out in a nature's reserve categorically? That you will find monkeys and snakes and lions behind you. Really? Have you ever visited Nigeria Benue state? No! Do you think is easy to come by just a monkey? talk less of a lion. Every morning I go to the farm with my parents since it raining and we have never seen a monkey. I sit near a forest anytime am hungry and tired and rest and nothing happens to me. How can you say in Africa you dare not walk in a nature's reserve and expect not to see lions and monkeys? I find that statement very insultive and hash. If I do something bad and you call attention to it and I truly did or said that I will apologize and move on.
Let us not kill or sell Africa to others who are not Africans.
We are beautiful and have a very beautiful culture. Anyone who has lived among us can testify to this.
Must you kill your brother or sister or paint him or her black before you get voted? No! I love all my Hive friends and I think if not for them I wouldn't have made it here. The likes of @majes.tytyty @marfonso @nanzo-scoop(who I have been trying to have a little chat with) @theycallmedan @rightwing670 @maxsieg @gregory-f @atma.love @nathanpieters @votebetting and all those who comment and vote me and to @vortac (who voted and followed me this evening. Thank you) Some are Africans some Americans.
In the bid to worship a whale please don't paint Africa in an insultive manner just for your gains, but rather paint us in a way that we can improve and challenge us to improve not call all of us thieves and rapists and whatever black name you think is suitable to condemn a race and be specific because not everywhere in Africa is a dumpster. Africa is beautiful with alot of beautiful places and safe tourist centers and nice buildings and people.
Black is beautiful 🖤
White is beautiful
Let us not destroy ourselves for our own selfish gains or paint another black just for our own selfish interest. Same color of blood runs in our veins.
Hi @melissaofficial
Good and bad in humans doesn't know colour, race, creed, religion, age, gender or anything else for that matter...Good or bad is specific to the person, no matter who they are. That's how it has always been.
There are many good, valuable and interesting people here on hive, associate with them, and simply let the negative ones fall away. We can never change other people, so I always focus on controlling the controllable things, that is myself, my actions, thoughts, attitudes and ethos...i seek to be the best version of myself that I can be and leave it to others to do the same, or not.
For me what you said is a very wonderful philosophy of life and we must all strive to follow this guide lines. Thank you so much I appreciate that.
You're welcome.