Thread by @demigodgeous

Tariq said Kola you high class Nigerians are fvcking with our eco system, stay back in Africa 😭 #SecureTheTribe

Arin brought up colonialism, Tariq responded with slavery, Arin responded with “this isn’t suffering olympics” #SecureTheTribe

Do the FBAs sound like white supremacists? Yes.

Do Africans with antiblack sentiment who refer to them as “Akatas” also sound like white supremacists? Yes.

I can’t argue with Tariq on the different attitudes between Africans and AAs on white supremacy. #SecureTheTribe

Errol: You’re deflecting
Tariq: You deflected from Jamaica over here 😭
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Errol: *Trying to sell his Republican masters
Tariq: You can vote in Jamaica right, why don’t you go home there and vote for it to be better 😭

#SecureTheTribe

@dounardbondo: Trying to speak sense to Tariq.

Tariq: You think this is a place for sense?! You think this is a space for objectivity? 😂 #SecureTheTribe

Tariq said “Fuck the research. Fuck the facts. I am the law.” #SecureTheTribe

Tariq: Was ur Silicon Valley popping?

Doyin: Yes.

Tariq: So why are u here?

Doyin: cos I want better for myself

Tariq: Ok, so it wasn’t popping.

Doyin: It was, it just wasn’t popping like the US.

Tariq: So why didn’t u stay home & build it?

Doyin: Why didn’t you stay 16?

Niggas: get that nigga out of there #SecureTheTribe

Odera: U said u were caring for ur people, why are ur people on drugs? U were fighting for immigrants, instead of stopping ur pple from doing drugs?

Tariq: You people brought the drugs & guns to us. #SecureTheTribe

Odera: I’m foundational

Tariq: nah I smell the Oxtail in you

After Sulaimon is done talking. Tariq’s still going to ask him when he’s going home #SecureTheTribe

Lila said you guys don’t have “African American Appreciation Day” and that’s a shame too because I could do with a new public holiday. #SecureTheTribe

Who sent Blaqbonez message? And whose uncle keeps interrupting? #SecureTheTribe

Dipo: How do you want us to help you?

Tariq: We brought you here to fight white supremacy, but all you Africans want to do is hug white people, make money and go to Disneyland.

#SecureTheTribe

Dipo: How did you trace your ancestry to the foundation?

Tariq: That’s easy. I’m the architect.

Dipo: What about the African ancestry?

Tariq: We don’t deny we have African ancestry but guess what everyone has African ancestry because life started in Africa. #SecureTheTribe

Oluwamandara:. You need to find out where you’re really from, maybe Badagry or Lome. Speaks Yoruba. Ori e o pe.

Tariq: Are you singing? Are you choking on Jollof rice? #SecureTheTribe

African Aristotle: You can’t get a solution in division.

Tariq: Bars. Bars.

African Aristotle: We need to come together and get organised. That’s what Malcolm Hex said.

Tariq: ok, can you go home and organise yourselves into one tribe?

#SecureTheTribe

Lola: I understand if you don’t have a connection with Africa.

Tariq: What are you talking about connection to Africa? I’m an American mayn.

Adjoa: I want us all to be successful.

Tariq: Yeah but you successful, we not successful. And when you’re successful, you differentiate yourselves from us. You don’t claim our set. Then when you niggas rob a liquor store then they tag you as African American, meanwhile u Ugandan

Abimbola: you don’t know about our experiences, you’re making assumptions about Africa. Do you realise your privilege as Americans, do you know the worth of your currency in Africa?

Tariq: You want rational discussion?

Abimbola: Yes.

Tariq: We nuh have that. #SecureTheTribe

Funmi: Insults in Yoruba. Who raised you?

Tariq: Sigh. They rambling again. Next caller. #SecureTheTribe

Omotara: insults in Yoruba

Tariq: Ma’am

Omotara: Don’t ma’am me

Tariq: Sigh #SecureTheTribe

K-pop girl: *Opens mouth

Tariq: Where you from?

K-pop: LA

Tariq: nah where’s your family house? Where your people rest at?

K-pop: West Africa

Tariq: Cool

K-pop: Can you end this room, it’s embarrassing for us

Tariq: Embarrassing for who? Next caller.

Cookie: Do you think you benefit when the economy is doing good?

Tariq: Girl, we invented the economy? We are the economy? There was no economy before us. We were the stocks and bonds. #SecureTheTribe

Oshomah: Why can’t American companies go back home to America and make money?

Tariq: Why did you leave Africa? You couldn’t make it there?

Oshomah: Do you know what your people did in Sierra Leone and Liberia? Do you even know your history? #SecureTheTribe

Yaba left: You need to come to Lagos and check yourself into Yaba left mental facilities.

Tariq: I’m disappointed man. That’s so corny. I’m judging your intelligence. Yabadabadoo yourself out of here. #savingthetribe

Gimba: If someone is a high school dropout, how can they say someone with WAEC certificate is taking their jobs.

Tariq: I guess I can’t.

Gimba:

Gimba: We deserve reparations, we were exploited by America too. They took our resources. They took our people.

Tariq: How? We built it all. We were the resources. Not you. You weren’t there. You sold ur people. In fact maybe we deserve some reparations from u. #securethetribe