Are you a movie buff?
Have you seen the movie CONCUSSION?
If not, I suggest you do so.
In the movie, Super A-list actor, Will Smith plays a lead
role, where he depicts the character of a notable Nigerian Doctor, Bennet
Omalu, the first ever doctor to research and find out the link between banging
heads in American football and a disease called Chronic Traumatic
Encephalopathy, CTE and whose works have saved lives in the NFL in
the United States and worldwide.
Hummmmm, wouldn’t you expect that Nigerians would be happy
with Will Smith for portraying our brother in good light for his great work?
Instead, Naijas are beefing Will Smith for failing to capture the Nigerian
accent to the T. Haba!!!
Why can’t my people for once just focus on that which is
positive and good?
If Dr. Bennet Omalu has been in America as long as over
10yrs, do we expect him to still possess the igbotic accent some of us are born
with? Even on our own local radio station, I hear some presenters sounding more
Americanised than Americans. Should we insist they speak with their strong
Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa accent?
Without that movie, we wouldn’t have really known who Dr.
Bennet Omalu is. Isn’t it enough that he discovered how to save the lives of a
lot of football superstars? Even in our own country Nigeria, have we really
shown that we value our players, celebrities, entertainers, and generally, all
those that make us happy?
Please we should chill with all the silly, stupid and
uninformed comments. OMG!
The fact, for Christ’s sake is that Dr. Bennet
Omalu left Nigeria since 1993. How do we know if he even spoke with
a heavy accent before he left our shores? Nobody knows if he had an igbo accent
in the first place, so why do they expect Will Smith to speak like someone who
hasn’t crossed the Seme border?
Even me CharlyBoy, after 5yrs in America, most Americans
that I came across would have sworn that I was born and buttered in America.
Abegi.
Sometimes I can’t believe my people’s hypocrisy, just too
obnoxious, makes me sick.
For a long time now, the foreign press and television
stations have portrayed Africa and Nigerians in particular as jokers,
fraudsters, common criminals and everything bad; now that we have a movie that’s
flipping a positive side, must we find something negative to say, all because
of Will Smith’s accent?
For all those people out there yarning akpata, please shut
the fuckup, nobody wants to read or hear your useless comments on this matter.
If you can’t applaud a job well done, just keep forever mute
and stop all the unnecessary noise.
I don talk my own.
4 Comments
I think he's right.
ReplyDeleteNigerians don't like reading deeper meanings.
ReplyDeleteTrue talk!!!
ReplyDeleteHe is right!
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