Igbos and the Jewish connection

The grouse is that the Igbos are claiming connection with the Jews, and out of sentiment, he started disparaging the Igbos without disproving the claimed Jewish connection.

He started by quoting scientific methods and application. How he has put the Igbos in the scale and weiged them and found them wanting. Yet he made this point and I quote: “and one who says that he sees anything as it is, without his own self affecting what he sees, is talking rubbish.

We cannot know what is going on in other person’s mind, all that we can do is engage in projective identification, that is, say what we think we see in other people”
After saying all this, he did not restrain himself but went on to describe one Igbo as a “palpable fool”. “uncultured, uneducated, a bushman”. Haba Mr. Makinde – what you see in this Igbo may not be exactly what he is. In other words you may be wrong, why not take it easy.

The very brutal way he was attacking the Igbo goes to show that the Igbos and the Jews have indeed this thing in common i.e hatred, envy and despise. There is nothing special about the Jews except, may be, suffering and fighting for survival which is what they have in common with the Igbos.
Their supposed relationship with God did not prevent the Holocaust neither did the Igbo suggested connection with the Jews prevent the repeated pogroms in Nigeria.

In truth, there are many similarities between the two races especially our four market days among other points which have been mentioned here and there. Infact, the name “Igbo or Ibo” is suggested to be a corruption of the name “Hebrew.” What offence have all these caused to the other peoples of Nigeria – especially the Yoruba?
All Igbo political leaders, according to history, have always sought to co-operate with the Yoruba until when they are despised and rejected. Zik embraced the Yoruba from day one in spite of all the treachery until he died.

Ojukwu, through recorded correspondences, has always sought the friendship and understanding of the Yourba up till today-all to no avail.
What are we getting in return? Obasanjo, through his posturing and utterances claimed that he, single handedly, defeated the Igbos and he has continued to defeat them daily till today, 37 years after the civil war. Then, this paricular article from Makinde is intended for maximum damage. To promote intense hatreld toward the Igbos from the other tribes of Nigeria.
I wouldn’t be reacting to this article if the Igbos are accused of being foolish. I would have agreed with that.

Are we not foolish for not having some unity in Igboland? Are we not foolish for not speaking with one voice. Are we not foolish for not resisting police brutality and deprivation. Wherever your see any serious road-block in Nigeria-East, West, North and South, be it Police or Customs, they are there waiting for the Igbo man. They are not waiting for the Hausa man, not waiting for the Yoruba man. These people have Godfathers! As for the Igbos, they are orphans! They have nobody except, may-be, God in heaven and again may be their Jewish blood!

All human beings are basically the same. Good and bad are natural. God created the devil not out of mistake but because the devil is necessary. For God to be all good, somebody else has to be all bad, hence the devil. So what is our problem as Nigerians? The Igbo man and the Ijebu man have many areas they resemble. Yet there is no complaint because the Yoruba has tribal unity. The Hausa has religious unity, the Igbo has nothing except individualism. Instead of pitying his foolishness your rather keep taking of his”pride and delusion”.

The Igbos may be foolish but please do not kill them because they are foolish. Again he went further to describe he Igbo’s as having “delusion disorder”. That Igbos behaviour is reminiscent of Adolf Hilter’s behaviour. That they see themselves as gods or elect of God etc.
All these descriptions are highly unnecessary and a waste of time. Let me tell Makinde that there are thousands of quiet Adolf Hitlers in the world today. We only know of Hitlers when they erupt.
Disparaging the Igbo in a patch-patch country like Nigeria is weakening their postion and that is counter productive.

I remember during the Obasanjo presidency, one Yoruba opposite my office came to me to tell me that the Yoruba are a special race. This was when Obasanjo was dishing it out to Nigeirans as he pleases. I just turned it into a laughing matter. After I had a good laugh at him, he left and I am sure my laughter spoke more volumes than words.
Human beings are the same the Igbos the Ijebus the Jews, the Chinese, the Russians, the Western world – we are all one.

Those who are foolish today may become wise tomorrow. Despite western world’s propaganda- the Chinese are making it today. And who knows tomorrow? Examples are emerging everyday, even here in Africa.