Grab your popcorn. I am about to play the Devil’s advocate here. Burna Boy is different. He is a Nigerian. We are different from every creature of God. Burna Boy is arrogant. It is the Nigerian in him. Show me a Nigerian you know who is very successful and has too much money that is not arrogant. Burna Boy talks bad about Nigeria and brings down the country. Talking about Nigeria. Talking down on Nigeria is the hobby horse of Nigerians. We are all as guilty of what we accuse Burna Boy of doing. We have to realize that we are a different breed of people. We are not ordinary. We are special. Even God who made us knows that. That is why He is having sleepless night trying to understand us.
Burna Boy has a problem. Don’t we all. He is not perfect. Show me one human being that is perfect. We all should expect that from the next person. If we love them. Without having a problem you do not have a future. Until David faced and defeated Goliath. He had no future. That Americans are now canceling Burna Boy does not give us Nigerians the chance to join in the lynching being done to our brother. He is different just like the other successful wealthy Nigerian. He is arrogant. Just like the next Nigerian that came from nowhere to make a name for himself. The American people should not be the ones making a decision for us on how to love or hate Burna Boy.
They do not understand us. Nobody does. The problem is we do not understand ourselves. We are different from other people. With this infinitesimal mistake. The Americans now want to destroy Burna Boy. The same way they try to destroy successful Nigerians living in their midst. You only have to rise to the pinnacle of your profession. And then you see how they will turn you into Burna Boy. They see the Nigerian in you. Suddenly you are different. Suddenly you are arrogant. Suddenly they cannot understand your accent. Now they want to bring you down.
Burna Boy is our boy. His problem is our problem. He has done well for the reputation of our country. He is not perfect. At least he is not P Diddy or R Kelly. He is just a Nigerian with the Nigerian demon. Successful and unapologetically arrogant. Let the Nigerian that is not, throw the first stone.
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