Shoe, meet foot
"I'm not sorry I'm a racist, I'm only sorry you found out about it."
The former CEO of African regional internet registry Afrinic has apologized for claiming that there was a race-related conspiracy to take over the organization. Adiel Akplogan responded to his original email noting that he had intended it to be a private message. He then apologized "to my many friends and colleagues globally …
>unless you are a white man.
Surreal moment in Paris, years ago...
Two young men - one black, one Arab - arguing, not in a friendly way. Arab guy goes for the kill with a supreme putdown:
"Wanker! My grandfather would have owned your grandfather."
Not to say that many of us whites ain't racists. But the general consensus, even among whites, is getting more and more that being white and racist is a bit of a douchebag move. That's a very good thing but it'd be nice if that attitude trickled down to other ethnic groups as well.
Looking at it closely, the email in question starts: "Hi Boubakar and all..."
The post before that one is from Boubakar, but clearly Akplogan is responding to the entire list and not just Boubakar. Then in his post following directly after his little 'booboo,' Akplogan begins: "I’m sorry that my private e-mail below ends up accidentally on this mailing list."
Say what? Then who was that "all" you were referring to? Methinks he doth protest too, too much.
The whiteman was created by a scientist named Yakub through selective breeding of the "original black man", which resulted in an evil creature given over to lying and murder. This scientific experiment came to fruition roughly six thousand years ago, on an island in the Aegean Sea called Patmos. This according to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Let me see....
Eben cybercity, Mauritius:
The majority of the population are Indo-Mauritians (people of Indian descent) who make up 68% of the population. Creoles (of African descent or mixed-race) are about a quarter of the population. There are approximately 30,000 Sino-Mauritians from the Hakka and other Chinese sub-ethnic/linguistic groups.
27 March 2015, Ébène: AFRINIC's Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Mr Alan Barrett as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mr Barrett replaces AFRINIC's founding CEO, Adiel A. Akplogan, and will assume the role on 20 April 2015 for an initial three-year term.
How is this a Black endeavor? It's as multi-cultural as all heck.