{"id":2058,"date":"2018-04-22T17:09:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T22:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2018-04-22T17:09:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T22:09:52","slug":"it-really-pains-me-a-lot-to-experience-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/it-really-pains-me-a-lot-to-experience-that\/","title":{"rendered":"It really pains me a lot to experience that"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cGrowing up in Jos I had this Ethiopian neighbor. She didn\u2019t want her children to play or relate with us. I don\u2019t know what happened to her or the Nigerian she encountered that gave her a bad image of us.
\nIt seemed to me that the sight of us irritated her, from the way she behaved. Her kids still played with us; they liked us, and didn\u2019t care what their mom thought of us. We were children and we loved playing games like PS or card games, you know. We still played with her kids when she goes to work. When she returns from work, we\u2019d be running helta-skelta and running through the back door so she doesn\u2019t catch us and scold or beat her kids.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to some years later, after graduating I came back to Jos from Kaduna. To our greatest surprise, this woman\u2019s attitude towards us completely changed. She would then even invite us to her house. I don\u2019t know what changed her mind, maybe she thought we would amount to much, or be graduates like her kids. I really believe that it was a life lesson for her, and even for me too in some way.<\/p>\n

As Africans, when we travel out of the continent we complain of encountering racism, but then we come back to Africa, we\u2019d still find that we\u2019re still doing the same to ourselves. So why is it like that? It really pains me a lot to really experience that. I am happy for that Ethiopian lady, that she came to realize her wrongs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cGrowing up in Jos I had this Ethiopian neighbor. She didn\u2019t want her children to play or relate with us. I don\u2019t know what happened…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"sgb\/featured_image_src":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/It-really-pains-me-a-lot-to-experience-that-819x1024.jpg","sgb\/author_data":{"display_name":"HONG","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5b92e4f13268bd91985eaf98fff88211?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_link":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/author\/hong\/"},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humansofnigeria.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}