Is "Oyinbo" A Derogatory Word?

[lonewolf]

Oyibo is an Igbo term not a Yoruba term.
It comes from the British mispronunciation of Onye Igbo.
Igbos started calling whites Oyibo to mock their way of pronouncing Onye Igbo.
Probably it became shared vocabulary between Igbo and Yoruba and filtered into pidgin

http://moacn.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/the-one-on-oyibos-nigerian-pride-and-the-national-inferiority-complex/

If I have this right the word started as a mockery of white peoples mis-prenouncing Onye Igbo.

It was this 'oyi ibo' that the Igbos later started referring to as 'white person' in a way of mocking the white man for his inability in saying "Onye Igbo". This would later be adopted by other Southern Nigerian tribes as the standard name for the white man and coupled with dialect variance one obtains different pronunciations such as "Oyinbo' in Yoruba and other western Nigerian tribes. Also, 'Oyibo' means English Language in Igbo. In general usage it may refer to individuals with various skin complaints such as vitiligo or genetic conditions such as albinism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyibo

[blugiant]

So you agree with oyinbo supremacee groups that the negro is not equal to the oyinbo?
You still thinking like negro slave?




Dis mak me laff. Negro playinn victimization card all the time raddar dan deal widd negro self inflicted wounds.
It easier to blame negro problems on oyinbo.

y wood annee senseable blakk parsan waan fe be equal widd oyinbo. to be equal to racist iss below da standards garvey set fe blalls

tink pon diss oyinbo woo wrote, woo passed ann woo ruled on discriminatoree laws can play da reverse racism victimization card butt cah itt oyinbo woo rulinn on racism blakks cyaan. realitee mii agree widd yuh bout sum aff da prablem blakks avinn iss self inflicted

[blugiant]

http://moacn.wordpress.com/2012/05/2...ority-complex/


If I have this right the word started as a mockery of white peoples mis-prenouncing Onye Igbo.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyibo

afrikkan seyinn itt natt wat dem cawl yu butt wat yuh anwsar to

[lonewolf]

tink pon diss oyinbo woo wrote, woo passed ann woo ruled on discriminatoree laws can play da reverse racism victimization card butt cah itt oyinbo woo rulinn on racism blakks cyaan

Dis mak me laff. No such thing as reverse racisim. Racism is racism. Regardless of application.

[lonewolf]

afrikkan seyinn itt natt wat dem cawl yu butt wat yuh anwsar to

Wolf say don't cawl anyone anything that yu not willing to answer to.

[blugiant]

Wolf say don't cawl anyone anything that yu not willing to answer to.

ar yuh denyinn oyinbo histaree aff racism ann oyinbo supremacee? yuh doan tink da victims aff oyinbo supremacee ave da rite fe cawl oyinbo racists?

[Wahalla]

Based on?

Experience....just like chidren who I grew up with use to shout Corruption when they saw the rare dry lan touris in our area in my youth,,,,

[lonewolf]

[QUOTE=blugiant;717758]ar yuh denyinn oyinbo histaree aff racism ann oyinbo supremacee? QUOTE]

Why would I confirm or deny history? It has nothing to do with what pertains to present.

yuh doan tink da victims aff oyinbo supremacee ave da rite fe cawl oyinbo racists?[/

And there you go again, pretending to be a victim...and I suppose you want me to pretend to be perpetrator because I'm white?

What Negro victims and what Oyinbo supremacy folks do you speak of? I'm speaking of present tense.

I say you are a victim of your own thinking.

[blugiant]

Why would I confirm or deny history? It has nothing to do with what pertains to present.



And there you go again, pretending to be a victim...and I suppose you want me to pretend to be perpetrator because I'm white?

What Negro victims and what Oyinbo supremacy folks do you speak of? I'm speaking of present tense.

I say you are a victim of your own thinking.

da term oyinbo git meaninn inn a kulcha dat xxploited blakks ann dat wat oyinbo didd to afrikkans.

yuh bring upp oyinbo a term rooted inn blakk afrikkan histaree but yuh natt canfirminn ar denyinn histaree. ar yuh seyinn da past doan pertain to histaree. guess yu ar woo yu ar cah aff da present ann yuh maddar, faddar, grandparents ave nuttinn fe do widd itt.

yuh ar a victim aff denial

[blugiant]

Experience....just like chidren who I grew up with use to shout Corruption when they saw the rare dry lan touris in our area in my youth,,,,

ar yuh seyinn dat dem wass natt corrupshan

[jah_yout]

(Someone) peeled by the honeybee,

hey a suh it guh...ethiopian means burnt face

[jah_yout]

******* is a derogatory word and increasingly so. It is a Swahili word for white people. It literally means a confused wandering person.

a really suh?
but words can have more than one definition

[jah_yout]

My take on the whole Oyinbo and Mzungu thing is this. Addressing someone by the color of their skin is found unacceptable in the societies that MOST of us live in. Addressing a white person as an OYINBO or a white female a MZUNGU is classifying and using a distinction that some how a person is different because of their skin color. It's segregating.

What do you think?

but isn't saying "a white person" also a reference to color?
by what you posted logic would say that "white" is segregating as well

[jah_yout]

So you agree with oyinbo supremacee groups that the negro is not equal to the oyinbo?
You still thinking like negro slave?




Dis mak me laff. Negro playinn victimization card all the time raddar dan deal widd negro self inflicted wounds.
It easier to blame negro problems on oyinbo.

dis chread maddd

[Peasie]

dis chread maddd

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