There seem to be profiling everywhere.

People can sniff disdain, elitism and opportunism a mile off and will turn destructively opportunistic because they have no trust in either oppressors or liberators.

There’s need to engage the “thugs”.

#endsars
The protests will need to grow into community generated and supported entities

There are profession/religion/trade/gender/age/ethnicity groups in each community with leadership people respond to. Area boys have leaders.

If the protests doesn’t engage them, the status quo will
There is an underlying class war brewing.

The middle class is too small and cloistered, the elite too entrenched and the poor too numerous and disconnected.

The precarious middle class has to build bridges to those too poor to care so as to joist those too rich to scare.
A class war serves no one’s interests.

The key is in an understanding that the status quo really benefits no one whatever the appearances so crossing the class divide by whatever means other than national progress is a fallacy.

That is the job of a badly needed “reason class”
The reason class are the hard grafters of every society. Often unseen, unsinging and sometimes unsung, for theirs is not a popularity endeavour.

The global political leadership crisis is both a dearth of the reason class and a rise of popular intolerance to “reasoners”.

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The two political movement Nigeria needs now.

Youth Party of Nigeria.

Women of Nigeria party.

These movements would ideally recruits and have cells on campuses, secondary schools, places of religion and work.

It will not discriminate on basis of ethnicity, religion, class.
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They would need to be built on ideologies of inclusive economic growth, poverty elimination, liberal human freedom.

A determination to free the majority of Nigerians from the consequences of current feudal socio-politics
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My cook’s 4 year old is spoilt as her mother had her late. We all spoil her cos she was born with a resting bitch face so she scares us.

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She shakes her head vigorously

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