White Supremacy ..

Im not aware of any superiority I have as a white male over blacks. I am however aware that blacks have a distinct physical advantage over me. They have thicker skin heavier bones ,more muscle and are just physically more competant. If intelectually we are equal, physically we are not.

Are you aware of any studies done on the intellectual and physical differences in the races of mankind, particularly between caucasoids and negroids?

I would be fascinated to see physical comparisons of IQ, strength, etc

J.T.

Black Man on Campus

Hello, Mr. philip,

My name is Julius Fanegan am a Nigerian born in Germany. I reside here in cincinnati ohio.I'm a computer engineering student in the college of engineering, university of cincinnati.Engineering, I define as the beast of science. I' m not finding it easy with my classes.It takes a lot of my time and hardly do I have a spare time for recreation.How did you make it to become a computer wizard?it is a self -flattery on my part to assume I would be computer wizard in a few years time.I assume it was suffering and smiling before you became so good. I wouldn't mind if you can share some of your talents with me. I' ve always wanted to be a computer engineer and invents several new computers.There is big gap between dreams and reality,which am trying to cross. I would be very happy if you reply my little story.

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Hello, Mr. Emeagwali,

I would be very happy if you could send me a book list of books about self and inner peace. I think this matieral will help me open my mind on a higher level.

Thank you
A.C.

Good Feeling Within Me

Dear Philip,

I am glad that the government and people of Nigeria did not hear about you early enough to discourage your development through monstrous hegemony. To some of us, including you, the good Lord has been very gracious.

No doubt you are aware of the rot that prevails in our university system. I graduated from UNN with less than 10 hours of computer time in all of my four years in the school. You are not yet very rich, I understand, but you can speak up for us. Your voice definitely should be loud enough.

Keep the good work going on and remember that Jesus is Lord.

Cheers,

Ikemba Isaiah Eze.

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My Brother:

Clinton

If your so hot ...

Phillip Emeagwalli i believe you are a very smart nigerian and you have been greatly recognised world wide for your achievements.If you are so "hot" why haven't you done anything positive to help your crumbling nation e.g.computer awareness for nigerian youngsters

I am 15yrs old and patriotic nigerian living in Paris with my mum who works in the nigerian delegation to UNESCO I heard about you when i was back home in nigeria and i am highly impressed when i heard of your achievements

I would be grateful if my note is replied,with possibilities of further conversations.

My name is Martin

Very glad to meet you

Hello my name is louise I think a husband and wife team in science is wonderful i was wonderful reading all the wonderful things you two are doing to help mankind and you'll being black makes me double proud keep up the good work God bless you both' Louise

mommy and pappa got a brand new toy

Read about you today

I read an inspirational profile of you today, and I could not help but drop you a few lines. While I am over-joyed by your accomplishments and the talents that God has given you, I am also sad you and thousands of other accomplished Nigerians are being forced to deploy your talent in furtherance of interests of a people that care not for our people well beings.

I have to go now as I am attending a conference here in Florida, but I hope we can continue to dialogue in the future.

Fellow Nigerian

Dear Mr Emeagwali, My name is Ezinne and I am a premedical student at The City University of New York. My major is Biology and my minors are psychology and computers. I heard about you from a friend that just came from Nigeria and I was pretty much impressed and decided to say hi. Indeed you are the Bill Gates of Africa and I am proud of fellow Nigerians like you. I really don't have much to say but just to encourage you to keep on going on this good path. I am so honored to write to you. A lot of Nigerians in my school are also into Computer Science and Engineering which is very impressive. I'm gonna tell them about you once the school reopens. It will be an utmost priviledge to read from you. Thanks.

Greetings;

I was searching the web for Nigeria resources earlier today and ran across your website. I was delighted to learn about your interests and achievements.

I too am a software developer, and am just a few years younger than you. I was a computer systems manager for Shell in Port Harcourt 1990-92. Since returning, I've continued as a self-employed IT consultant. I also have a masters degree in International Affairs and Intl. Technology Management.

I remain involved in a number of Africa causes. During the past several years, I've been in contact with a gentleman based in DC who's very influential in Pan-African affairs. I put together a $300,000 website proposal for their organization, last year. It's objective is to promote political and economic developments on the continent.

While I was positively impressed by many of your comments, there were other remarks, from your website, which I found disturbing or inaccurate.

I am white, not racist. Ethnic discrimination is a fundamental feature of human nature. Having travelled all major regions of the world, studied their history, and lived in a number of them, I have a surprising report for you. There is no nation on the face of this earth in which ethnic discrimination is less pronounced, than in the United States. I would, at the same time, join you in lamenting the fact that this is the best we've done so far.

It is true that blacks, around the world, have been the "most discriminated against" category. This is lamentable. Well before my experience in Nigeria, and certainly afterwards, I have always had deep affection and regard for people of African descent. But then, I consider people absolutely independent of their skin or physical features.

I am not unique.

I think it is somewhat unfair for you to harp upon "white supremecists," who are a competely discredited and rejected, small minority of our current population.

When I walked down the street in Nigeria, kids ran behind me screaming oyinbo, onyeacha, or mbakara, but would invariably turn, scream, and run if I tried to greet them (except the neighborhood kids, who eventually got to know me). My Nigerian girlfriend was unfaithful to me. Her cousin finally explained to me that this was because I was an oyinbo and Ada had just been interested in me for money. I finally realized that Ada's perception of me was so influenced by my skin color and background that she couldn't see my humanity and feelings. She just viewed me, prejudicially, as "a white man."

When the head of our department at Shell, who was European, left, the Nigerians in the department groaned. He was replaced by a Yoruba man, who proceeded to systematically fire or marginalize the Igbo contractors who, previously, had dominated relationships with our department. Hardly anyone complained heavily though, as this was accepted as the reality of life in Nigeria.

So much for your implication that the US, or white folks, or whatever, invented racism. You would know, from your own experience in Biafra, that this is not true, yet your comments reflect nothing of the sort, in your interviews with Guardian.

The Egyptians, who you refer to repeatedly as "Africans," and as the inventors of math and technology, were not Bantu or SS-African racial types. They were Asiatic people who migrated through the Sinai and back into the northeast quadrant of the continent. They subjugated the native peoples, the pyramids having been built by "hamitic" peoples, like the Ethiopians. DNA tests have confirmed the Asian origin of the Egyptians, but you need do no more than look at King Tut's death mask to see that these rulers were not ethnic Africans, per se.

I say these things, not to take the wind out of your sails, or to reinforce negative stereotypes about prejudices. I, myself, believe Africans are capable of any achievement. Instead, I make these observations because Nigeria already has a stout reputation for disinformation. Build your house on rock rather than sand, Philip. Egypt's history holds little relevance to Nigeria. And it isn't necessary to reference it, to prove your point. Rome's experience with Britain is much more relevant for the point you seem to be groping towards, in these passages. I'll leave it up to you to research it for yourself.

You experienced racial discrimination in America, which is sad, but certainly believable. If it makes you feel any better, it would have been worse for you in Latin America, Asia, or Europe, in general. Having lived in both east and west Africa, the discrimination I've seen there, is some of the most brutal of all. All you have to do is look at the tribal decimations of Liberia or Rwanda, to see its expression. You lived thru Biafra. Where's your sense of balance as you avoid these topics in your Lagos speech, and yet mention far lesser examples from your personal experience here?

Meanwhile, discrimination against blacks in America is a legacy of slavery. How did these blacks come into our society in the first place? Coastal chiefs in places like Calabar and Lagos sold them to European middlemen. One of the last chapters in the worldwide institution of slavery, which pervaded every society throughout history. Greek and Rome had more slaves than freemen (these weren't black). The word, slave, is the same as the word "Slav," because the slavic peoples of Europe were slaves for millenia.

Back in Nigeria, my highborn Igbo friends discriminate against lowborn Igbos, the northerners against the southerners, the city-bred Efik against the bush tribes. Where is mention of this type of thing in your lambasting of American society, and your willingness to attach "racism" to whites? We have a share, so do you.

The past is past.

African leaders, for four decades, have blamed every problem on the West and you, being African, would know how unrepresentative this has been of true analysis.

In Nigeria, I was always harassed for money and detained simply because of my skin color. But, since I've returned, I have said only positive things about Nigeria among my friends and family and have given countless hours of time towards helping my friends in Nigeria, and Uganda.

You live in the United States, have benefitted from our educational system and achieved a beautiful career that would have been impossible in your home nation, and yet, all you talk about is racial discrimination against you and the unfair economic benefit the US derives from African exiles. Maybe the reason you guys have closed forums is because you don't want reality or broadminded opinions to interpose themselves on a orchestrated blamefixing agenda.

Hopefully, this is not too harsh. I'm sure that most of your points are well-justified and, for that matter, I wish you great success in your effort to help Nigerian economic development. My email address is [deleted for privacy]

Yours sincerely, J. W., University of California, San Diego 01/24/97

I was searching for an article on Mathew Henson and I discovered your page by mistake.

I have read your autobiography and I am very impressed with your accomplishments.

As an African American 38yrs old I can relate with you on the lack of being exposed to Black heroes as a child. My heroes were tarzan( I just loved watching him make fools of the africans in africa) and john wayne(everytime he killed an indian that was one less for us to worry about). I have come to understand the depthness of my brainwashing and have worked to overcome it. My question to you is this. Do you think a people can ever rise up to their full potential if they do not see god in their image?.......

The missionaries knew that in order to to control one's thinking a person must first see the here-after in the image of the dominant race. This goes down to our basic core of existance. I am told that god and heaven is colorblind. But the images that surrounds us are all of european desent. Every race has the right to perceive god in whatever way shape or form it pleases. But I think that when one race see's its creator in the image of another it perceives that race as being closer to god and therefore superior. This is just an observation.......from one person.

I will point some people in the direction of your page so they will also be enlightened further...

peace.

doug brown

Mr Emeagwali -

My daughter is writing a research paper on you and your accomplishments for her 7th grade science class. We have both perused your web site and she has obtained a great amount of material in order to write her paper.

I am amazed at how you have progressed from being a dropout out to a man of many college degrees. I do find it disappointing, however, that you had to interject self-pity and, the way I read it, an "almost" racist comment.

You said,

"However, being a black African scientist, I never received the opportunities that white scientists receive. Black scientists have to be twice as good to get half the credit they deserve."

I can't believe for one minute that your color would have held you back. In this country, it's the other way around. As a black man, you would have more opportunities to succeed, more opportunities for scholarships, etc...

And the letter from the University of Alabama student in which he or she says, "With poor role models ... no inspiration and a hostile academic environment... I have thought about everything from leaving America to committing suicide. The struggles of African and African-American youth is a story that is never told" makes it seem that America is one big racist/bigoted country.

The student from U of A needs some serious professional help if he/she thinks things are really that bad in America. Everything is what you make of it. If you make it depressing, hostile, uninspiring, it's going to be that way. But only because you want it to. If you make it positive, if you work hard, if you pull yourself up by the bootstraps into a bright future, it's because you made it that way.

If you really want to advance your work and inspire young students (you might want to include ALL students, not just African or African-Americans) then leave out the negative, almost racist comments.

J.D. Reese

It is ludicrous and unfair to write off Thomas Jefferson as a "white supremacist". His contributions to our nation are virtually immeasureable; THE MAN INVENTED DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF MONARCHIES AND DIVINE RIGHTS! When King George III said "Off with that man's head!", there were no Appeals Court and sitting on death row for 15-20 years; that man's head was chopped off at sunup the next day! Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers stepped into a direction that nobody had ever stepped before; they deserve our respect and praise, not our criticism. Indeed, one hundred years from now, some of our values will probably seem crude and insensitive to descending generations of Americans. Should you and I be prosecuted by them for being men of the late twentieth century? Absolutely not. Likewise, Thomas Jefferson should not be criticized for being a man of the late eighteenth century. In addition to the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson's contributions included the Louisiana Purchase from Napolean of France, which nearly tripled the geographical size of the United States. Thomas Jefferson is my favorite founding father; I believe he is the most intriguing person of all the founding fathers. Don't judge Mr. Jeffson, an eighteenth-century man, by late twentieth-century values.

Thank you for the opportunity to voice my opinion.

Thomas Cunningham Thomas.Cunningham@fpc.com

Thomas:

Thanks for sharing your insightful analysis with me.

Thomas Jefferson owned slaves at a time whites abolitionists believed that slavery is wrong. Also, his writings shows that he clearly believed that whites were superior to blacks. Jefferson wrote (Notes on Viriginia):

"Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous."

Jefferson's contemporaries, including Benjamin Banneker, considered him a white supremacist and criticized him for those views. The latter is my reason for calling him a white supremacist.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts.

Regards, Philip Emeagwali http://emeagwali.com