Hi friends,
Trust you are doing well since the last time you read from me.
It’s been a good week for me though not without hitches.
I recently remembered a movie I had watched first in secondary school then I went on a hunt for it in my service year in 2007 (I actually remember going from one movie shop to another, looking for the DVD 🫢🫢), because I enjoyed every bit of it when I first watched it. The movie is called THUNDERBOLT ‘MAGUN’ Deadlier than Aids by the famous Tunde Kelani. The story is about a couple who had a cross-cultural marriage and the husband seemed to be a very suspicious man and put this traditional medicine, magun on his corper wife, who he suspected for been unfaithful to him while she was at her work station. The medicine was to set a trap for the man sleeping with a woman whose husband suspected her and it would kill him in one of these ways. He could vomit blood immediately after sleeping with her and die, or he will keep somersaulting till he dies or he will drink water until he drowned in his own fluid (I don’t want to go into the mysteries of this myth 🚶🏽♀️🚶🏽♀️🚶🏾♀️). At some point in this drama, when the truth that Yinka is the one who inflicted his wife Ngozi with Magun is revealed, her Vice Principal at the school she taught said “an evil man gives a bad name to his race, even when that race has a host of angels, but a race is a race, a man, a man.”
That last phrase for me is what I remembered in the course of the week, the fact that it is easy to make generalizations about a people, it is easy to be biased or prejudiced about a people. Meanwhile, we basically have two tribes when it comes to the subject matter of character, GOOD and BAD people. Whatever a person has done to you, find it somewhere in your heart to separate the person from his race, I know this is difficult, but it is possible. I am currently learning to do so, to try not to generalize.
I hope you have a great weekend.
