How racist are you?
I was born into a racist society (North Carolina in the 1940’s and 50’s). My parents were racists. My Dad believed negroes were a lesser species. I attended segregated schools. I heard that song in Sunday School that Jesus loves the little children: “Red and yellow black and white, they are precious in his sight.” I suspected this racism thing might not be what Jesus had in mind. As I progressed through high school I had more contact with more liberal sentiments. It was the 60’s and the Civil Rights movement was in flower. I went off to college in 1964. I was in the first class in my school with black students - two of them.

At this point I believed black people were my equal. I believed it in my head but not in my heart. I could not talk to a black person without being patronizing. Touching a black person felt like an electric shock. I could not perceive a black woman as beautiful. I knew how I ought to behave, but I could not be authentic about it. People pick up on this stuff.

After college I went to seminary. An important part of the training of a minister is practical work in a parish. This is called field work. One of my field jobs was at Grace-Hope Presbyterian Church in Louisville Kentucky. This congregation was 100% black. I started in June. I did not see a white person for three months. At the end of this period my perceptions had changed. I could shake hands with black people without feeling a shock. I had black friends. I started seeing black women as beautiful. When I watched TV I began to identify personal care products that were for whites only. My heart had changed. And people could tell it.

I have a number of black friends and a black son-in-law. I have attached a picture of my grandson, who makes me as proud as I can be.

Now and then I ask my black friends if they pick up any racist vibe from me. They've always told me no. I have come to believe there is one human race. We are all one color: some shade of brown. And I am certain that Jesus loves all the little children.

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This is Oluwatoyin Olajide; she is the second-most powerful person in Air Peace after Allen Onyema, who is the Chairman of Air Peace.

She runs and is in charge of the daily day-to-day activities of Air Peace as COO of the airline, and then reports to the owner and chairman of the airline, Allen Onyema.

She holds a First Class Honours degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos, and she is the only female COO of a Nigerian airline at the moment.

When Airpeace was still a small airline in 2014, she joined as the head of safety, and her boss promoted her to the CEO/COO position in the same year.

She has been in charge of the airline's double-digit growth and has scaled Air Peace from where she met it as a small airline to the biggest airline in West Africa today.

Toyin does not speak the same language as her boss, but it does not matter.

What matters is that she is competent, merits the job she is doing, and qualified; picking a lady who does not speak the same language as him to run his business is who Allen Onyema is.

A quintessential businessman who is a detribalized Nigerian in every sense of the word

His wife is even an Igala woman from Kogi State, and he married her in the 90's, when inter-tribal marriage was not this cool.

Toyin actually came up with the Isiagu attire because Air Peace is not an Igbo airline, and her boss endorsed the idea.

This is why I don't understand the fuss.

Air Peace is a Nigerian airline, and Isiagu is a representation and embodiment of our culture and a representation of who we are to the outside world.

Before Air Peace started flying to London, Arik and Medview had done the same, but they no longer do the same today.

For me, understanding the banana peel that made Arik fail is more important to Toyin-led Air Peace than discussing Isiagu.

Toyin is doing an incredible job as a corporate Amazon who inspires our daughters that it is possible to be a mother and still succeed in a male-dominated industry on her own terms and due to her sheer brilliance.

And this is why the work she is doing is important for our culture.

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Why going cashless has turned Sweden from one of the safest countries into a high-crime nation

https://fortune.com/europe/202....4/06/21/why-going-ca

The inability of the NFF to retain the services of Peserio after the recent AFCON was ill-advised. The NFF should have retained Peseiro. He surpassed the semi-final target set for him for the AFCON. He should have been retained for the sake of continuity, and the World Cup qualifying campaign, where it had already drawn its first two matches with Lesotho and Zimbabwe.

We believe that with his impressive AFCON results, Peseiro would have posted better results than George. It is difficult to reconcile how a team that paraded the best defence at the AFCON suddenly became the team with one of the worst defensive records in its World Cup qualifying group with teams far below it in FIFA ranking.

The players at the disposal of George were too accomplished for the Super Eagles to languish in the 5th position behind South Africa, Rwanda, Benin and Lesotho. Many of the Super Eagles players had a remarkable 2023/24 European season, winning trophies and personal glories. Their struggle to win matches cannot be justified.

Let the NFF appoint a world-class coach for the Super Eagles. Nigeria should not miss the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The situation of the Super Eagles is precarious. But it is not beyond redemption. Let the NFF employ a new foreign coach to replace George. However, he must be a coach with pedigree.
https://sunnewsonline.com/a-wo....rld-class-coach-for-

Mexican Football Match disrupted by dog chasing player

This is awe inspiring - Pastor Kumuyi Advise Believers to be more Open to other believers. #Kumuyi

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