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'Racist' Britain & Ngozi Fulani · DidiLawren

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  Hello, and welcome back to my channel.
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  My name is Lorenzo defect and this is Bunty laurentia.
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  How are you all doing a hope you're doing great for today's
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  episode. We're going to be talking about
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  Gaza Fulani? No, it's not involved with
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  Lonnie. No that's not the pronunciation.
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  It is cozy Fulani. Now, if you don't don't go
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  ziplining, Honey, I have never heard of her before until a
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  couple of days ago now, because it for learning was invited to
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  the palace for charity events. She has been doing work on
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  domestic violence. Specific to African and
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  Caribbean Heritage black people. Basically, she was invited to
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  the Palace to talk about her charity and to create awareness.
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  Now, I'm cutting some go see, Fulani, she was approached by
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  Lady, Susan hen. See, or top Palace personal,
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  according to her, she said that lady, Susan, approached her and
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  this conversation ensued. Now let me just read out the
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  conversation according to go. See Fulani.
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  So she said that lady, Susan approached her and said, where
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  are you from? And she said that she's from
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  Sister space and Susan henze said we are You come from.
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  She proceeded to say that we are based in Hackney and Lady.
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  Susan said, know what part of Africa are you from?
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  And she said that, I don't know. It didn't leave any records Now.
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  Lady Susan said, well, you must know where you're from.
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  I spent some time in France, where are you from?
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  And she said, he UK a lazy, Susan proceeded to say that.
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  No, but what nationality are you?
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  She said, I am born here and I am British lady.
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  Susan said, no. Well, where do you really come
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  from? Where do you people come from?
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  And she replied my people lady. What is this?
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  And Lady Susan says, oh, I can see.
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  See, we are going to have a challenge getting you to say
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  where you're from. When did you first come here?
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  He said, the lady. I am British.
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  I am a British national. My parents came here in the 50s
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  when it was. She was trying to explain and
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  she was cut short, by Lady, Susan.
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  Who said, oh, I knew we'd get there.
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  In the end you are Caribbean and of course he said no lady.
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  I am of African Heritage Caribbean descendants and
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  British national and Lady Susan was like, oh so you are from you
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  know so that was the end of the conversation that she mentioned.
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  According to her this was what made her very uncomfortable.
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  Now, when I first, you know her, About this or when I first
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  listened to some of the interviews and comments it was
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  funny to me because I was like, goes, 'you know what?
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  This woman is asking you now before I am going to that
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  because if fool, I need rest, I think she just Googled primitive
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  Africa and she embodied that you know, infinitely myself.
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  If I sit in Gaza Fulani. I would want to know where she's
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  from though. The name is giving Highway
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  because as a Nigerian I am evil and I know that the name in Gaza
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  is evil and Fulani is actually a tribe of people, not just
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  Nigeria, but they're scattered all over Africa because of the
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  nature of their business. What they do is they react our
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  tools and they move from their gypsies.
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  Basically, they move from one place to the other, although
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  some of them have settled in, Nigeria mean, our president is
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  full of irony. So that is no question but me as
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  a Nigerian, I wouldn't. I know that I'm gonna see is a
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  Nigerian name but the way she dressed, I mean, come on, she
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  dressed. I will be curious.
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  I would want to know, you know, where are you from?
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  You know, especially if you're not Nigerian, but just imagine
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  me as a Nigerian, I would be curious to talk to her to know
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  where she's from. So according to her, even before
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  the conversation started lady, henze actually pulled off her
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  hair to see her name tag. She said that was a violation of
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  a space. She said that was abuse physical
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  abuse. That nobody should touch her,
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  especially knowing the culture that she's from, nobody should
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  put her hands on her and all that.
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  And people have this conversation, like, there were
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  so many become a ratio conversation because lady hansy
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  Resigned after the palace, actually, you know, even Prince
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  William's, like, they just throw her to the wolves.
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  Like this is an 80-something years old woman, from a
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  different era. Although we can feel that's
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  okay. We educated on various and
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  everything, but these are people that are not on the internet.
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  I mean, she's 87 80. Something years old, she may not
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  even be aware of all these things.
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  She grew up in a different era where slavery was acceptable.
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  So, I don't, although that is not even an excuse.
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  Like, what I just think is, there is no way you can talk
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  about the, it's a double-edged sword.
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  You cannot defend lady henze because of our age and you
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  cannot totally agree with because the Fulani, because you
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  do it where you worry costume, basically.
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  So in that has to attract some kind of curiosity, if you're
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  going to be Dressed like that. Now this is not talking about,
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  okay, who is wrong and who is right?
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  But there are so many conversations going on in line
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  because there are two aspects of this conversation.
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  Some people supporting and Gaza Fulani saying that, you know,
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  racism the systemic racism in the UK, especially racism from
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  the palace. I mean, if you talking about
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  King Charles, when he was actually, when he became a king,
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  I think during the models, burial, some And lined up trying
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  to, you know, shake his hands. There was an African man.
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  That was they who tried to shake him and he just walked past this
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  man ignored him, move on to the next white person.
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  Like there is racism. There's no reason Under the Sun.
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  Why King Charles should have like skipped that black man and
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  then move on to the next white person that is racism like
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  Nobody's even arguing about the fact that there is racism in the
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  UK in the palace, like the monarchy.
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  These are the people that colonized the commonwealth
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  countries. I don't think the argument is
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  about whether there is racism or not.
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  I think it is the context and it is the intent because we cannot
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  take away. The fact that was afoot He felt
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  that intention of Lady Susan. Hence it was her was racial like
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  she's trying to discriminate her because she starts okay the way
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  you're dressed. You must come from Africa.
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  You must come from you know Caribbean even if you're born
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  here, your parents. What is your heritage?
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  Somebody can look at that and be like, okay, that is curiosity.
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  But if the question is asked seven times, He's trying to get
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  you to say that you are Nigerian, go full-on ego from
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  Caribbean to get to your roots. Then, I think that there is the
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  intention there is what might make somebody feel
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  uncomfortable. And the number of times that
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  question was asked, would I have made somebody feel uncomfortable
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  now, thinking about it? When I first saw this I laughed
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  because to me, I was like Tyson, A simple question.
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  Just answer your dress. You embody what kinda you embody
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  African culture, and every even more than the Africans.
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  So if somebody is asking you about your heritage, that should
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  have been, you know, an easy question to answer but then
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  again I had to kind of you know stop myself on that track.
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  I was thinking okay because I'm a first-generation immigrants.
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  I've lived over two decades in Nigeria before moving to the UK.
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  Yes, I am British. But if you ask me, why you from,
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  I will tell you, I am a Nigerian because even if I'm telling you,
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  I'm British the way I talk, I am not doing any, there's no Amy in
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  my voice. So you are going to know that, I
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  am, no originally British, but then when it gets dicey is,
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  let's say I didn't have a childhood.
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  Here. And I'm telling this child, your
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  Nigerian, even give them chiama. You know, this is my child's
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  name is choma and they know, like, I have told them but they
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  are Nigerian, but they are born. Here they go to school here.
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  Everything they know is British culture, even if I've taken them
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  back to Nigeria to spend one or two weeks, During their lifetime
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  or maybe even yeley, I don't think that will negate the fact
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  that they are British. So even if you ask that child
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  where are you from? There are likely to tell you
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  that they are British regardless of if their name is a formatted
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  UK they are going to tell you they're British then it was are
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  asking them where are your parents from?
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  They can tell you yes my parents.
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  They are Nigerian, you see. So I think there is that
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  elements. The way for me, I thought about
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  it. I was comfortable to say because
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  if you love me you should have just said your Nigerian.
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  But then again, when I listen to Gaza Fulani, when she was
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  talking, she talked about, you know, she been, I think she's
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  Caribbean to be honest with you because I mean, yeah, she's
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  Caribbean but even the Caribbeans, Um, the Africans
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  that were sold as slaves to this place is, and maybe she decided
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  on her name, is not even on Gaza, flan.
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  It. Let's just make that very clear.
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  Her name is don't go ziplining. I don't even want to mention a
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  name, but the reality is, there are still Africans.
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  Even though she's Caribbean, she can wake up one day.
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  Trace her Roots like Megan, Marco, who said, she is 40
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  something percent Nigerian, and We accepted it.
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  Like we are happy to accept anybody who is happy to
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  identify. As us as Nigerian, we are happy
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  with that V. I think one of the problems that
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  I see here is the fact that people are not taking into
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  account the way she looked. I understand that everybody has
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  a right to dress the way they want to dress.
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  Everybody has the right to Change their names to whatever
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  they want to change their name to.
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  But at the same time, if you're going to be a walking billboard
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  to a particular cultural, I think it is only fair for you to
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  understand. When somebody is asking you
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  about. Because it was not about the
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  charity for her to even touch her hair.
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  You know, that it's about the appearance.
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  It's about the way you look. There is this This lawyer is
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  actually son in Nigeria, who dress like a native doctor, you
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  know, to court. And he said, that is right.
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  That is his religion. Everybody has rights of
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  religion, because it was kind of accepted for people to wear.
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  This, is it book or Tobin? We job.
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  Sorry, the job of two schools and two offices.
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  And to everywhere, like, Was now except I think was passed has a
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  law or something like that. So he felt it is also his
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  religious right as a traditionalist to dress as a
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  traditionalist to court. And that was why he was tying
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  red wrappers around his waist. He had white chalk, eyes people.
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  We are curious, I mean, we're talking about in Nigeria, people
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  were approaching him, he did a whole lot of interviews talking
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  about. Why he is dressing that way and
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  why he's identifying as a traditionalist.
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  Now, this is in Nigeria the most populous, Black Nation on Earth,
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  the have bit of Africa and even in that country, because he
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  dressed difference to a courtroom where people is
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  supposed to be a formal dressing.
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  People will curious. He did so many interviews.
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  Talking about this just imagine if he's dressing like that and
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  he was asked why do you dress like this?
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  And if you like yeah you know it is my rights don't be racist or
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  you're being your racially abusing me or, you know,
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  something like that actually. I just think it's kind of, it's
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  a double-edged sword. Like there is no way you can
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  win. I don't think I see any reason
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  why if that question is then, Then put to you in a social
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  context. Should we take that as racism?
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  But then again, I understand that sometimes these people
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  don't know because your parents are from Caribbean and you trace
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  your route and they're telling you you're 40, you're 56 percent
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  Nigerian and then you just Google and be like, okay,
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  Nigerian name Godsey. Okay keep that aside what tribe?
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  Because I have dreadlock what tribe should identify as and
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  you're like Fulani and then you like okay this is it, how does
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  African people dress and then you bought you just mush all
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  those things together and body it and that is your identity but
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  identity is not just about the way you look.
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  If you're going to appropriate a particular Culture, that is like
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  the blaring. I mean every I am very sure that
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  everybody was if I was in that room, I will be looking at him
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  go. See Fulani?
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  And I am a Nigerian I was born in the north.
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  I know more about the Fulani culture than I do about even my
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  own culture because that's was my birthplace, and I grew up
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  there and this that was my reality.
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  So if you're going to embody a particular culture, it is only
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  fair. You know, you're where you're
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  from. And I have never been offended.
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  When somebody asked me. Where are you from?
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  Or we? Are you region?
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  Because I have to tell you, I am Nigerian because I know who I
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  am. I know where I'm from, I know my
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  culture. I know, No, like it is me, it is
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  ingrained in me, but I also understand that let's say, I
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  have a child tomorrow. Yes.
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  I'm telling that child your Nigerian, but what does that
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  child know? It is a British culture and if
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  that child goes out and the ask them, we are you from.
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  And they said, I am British. We are you from.
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  I am from London. We are your parents from if your
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  child is not comfortable. Answering that question.
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  That is fair. I mean, just keep it moving and
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  stop asking people several times even touching their hair.
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  I mean, it's you see there was a video of Kelly's, she was in.
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  I think it was in Vietnam or something where people were
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  just, like, intrigued about her hair.
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  Like they were, have not seen that.
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  She's did box braids. And people do we just intrigued
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  to touch the Hair. Like do we just torturing her
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  hair without even permission because that was the first time
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  they were seeing something like that.
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  So is it curiosity? Is it because you're seeing
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  something for the first time? Or is it just racism?
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  Is it at the end of the day? It is.
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  The intention of why Lady Susan was asking persistent lease
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  actually, seven times trying to get to know where ngozi Fulani
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  is from, at the same time. What is the intention of Gaza
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  Fulani being offended by those questions?
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  I mean, we don't know if it was actually acts 7 times unless you
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  had the tape recorder or Where do I go?
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  I'm going to blame anybody, it is what it is.
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  I think I am just happy that we're having this conversation.
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  We're not just thinking about we as first generation immigrants
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  being happy to provide this information.
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  What about your children? Are they happy to probably say
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  they are Nigerian even though they some of them have never
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  been to Nigeria before. Your name is Faye me, ngozi and
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  Hamza but Are they happy to say that they are?
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  Nigerian, that is where the question come in.
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  That is it? So, thank you very much for
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