The Blessings Of Racism By Pius Adesanmi

If you can get beyond her extremely heavy, funny, and distracting Britico accent (if u have lived too long in North America, they sound so funny to you in Britain), that white British Airways Flight Attendant in the racist video about Nigerian men is so fixated on a certain geo-political region of the black male anatomy.


She goes on and on and on about the size of that member of the body of the Nigerian male. If you are not well read in history, literature, philosophy, and allied zones of knowledge, you wouldn’t understand how many centuries of the production of that particular member of the black male body in white imagination went into that moment of one silly white woman’s racist exuberance.

You wouldn’t understand where she is coming from. You wouldn’t understand that there are some 5 centuries of consistency in that racist video by a silly English flight attendant.

You wouldn’t understand that your black male member – just by existing as a biological fact – put you in mortal danger from slavery through colonialism and after. It was imagined for you, desired, lusted after, mythologized as bigger than a donkey’s, then framed as dangerous to white women, lacking control, always desiring white women, always ready to rape.

This exercise of power over his black member by a white woman who fixates and desires the said member kills Toundi in Ferdinand Oyono’s Houseboy. That black member is also always there, dangerous, untamed, wild in Coetzee’s novel, Disgrace. The black member eventually rapes a white woman. Of course. Coetzee is continuing a tradition of imagination and representation.

And in 2017, a white female flight attendant on the London-Lagos route cannot see beyond the intimidating black dicks of Nigerian men which she describes as getting in the way and blocking the path of her service trolley in the cabin.

And she returns again and again and again to these black dicks. She is a continuator of history and tradition.

And such a self-damning video – British Airways says they are investigating. They are looking into it. They too are continuators of history and tradition.

Fortunately, racism has its blessings. In her woolly-headed racist stereotyping, the English girl says that all Nigerian men are abundantly blessed.

So many Nigerian men have been abusing her since the video went viral.

However, none has rejected her claim in the size department. That is one racism they could live with.

My advice to our men: if you are claiming that racism and you know it is not true, pamper your wife or girlfriend. The day you mess up, she will take you out of the illusion of the English girl and tell you the truth about your size. Do not say I did not warn you.