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Daily Archives: March 17, 2025

When Oppression Is Cloaked As Culture

Part of evolving as humans should be examining current practices and asking ourselves “does this still make sense?”. There are many events that occurred in the past that were thankfully stopped because some people had the brave idea to ask that very question. Let’s have a look shall we: You get the drift. At some point in life, we as a society must be willing to evaluate our so-called traditions and “culture” and be ready to update what needs updating. With that said, I am now ready to ask my African brothers and sisters, my Nigerian brethren, my Yoruba cousins to be exact – AT WHAT POINT DO WE ADMIT THAT WE NEED TO START ERADICATING THE OPPRESSIVE AND HEAVILY SEXIST PARTS OF OUR CULTURE? Just look at this: Here you have a clearly unstable, mannerless, rude, man-centered senior citizen bullying and denigrating the supposed love of her son’s life …