Who Do "Justice" Oprah or "Biased" Brian Ross think they are?

Ok so the other day, actually on Friday April 13th, My friend Jojo called me up and asked me turn on my tv and watch the "Court of Public Opinion" also known as the Oprah Show. "Justice" Oprah decided to dedicate an entire show on scam artists and how they con "poor sympathetic" Americans out of thousands of dollars. Ok, normally I wouldn't have a problem with this, but then the mugu-licious Mr. Brian Ross appeared...the ABC News Chief Correspondent and 20/20 host who did a piece on Scam Artists in Nigeria a couple of months ago.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am "Miss Don't Diss My Continent" and even worse, "Don't Dare Diss My Country"or you'll get bitch-slapped..well, I bitch slap ppl by schooling their ignant asses. Anyway, on friday the mugu focused on Nigeria as the kingdom of Scammers. If he just reported the news "As-Is", and informed people to be aware of emails they get from Nigeria, then that's fine. But no that would have been too fair, of course there is no way in hell you expect an elite "Oyibo" American journalist to report events in Africa in a fair and unbiased way; That would simply be asking for too much. They need to use the "brush of doom" to paint it, or else it won't be scintillating enough for their audience.....Ok, I got off track a little.

So anyway, Justice Oprah and her news correspondent began talking. Mr. Ross said he decided to travel around the world and go undercover to catch online con-men. The problem with this is that the man only visited Nigeria. He visited "the slum" of Lagos which he described as a "ghetto" at best. Ok, I thot he was talking about scamming, why delve into the depraved economic conditions? that was my first beef with him. He travelledd "half-way around the world" to Nigeria, home to more than 13 million people". First of, since when is Nigeria half-way accross the world from the United States, and 13 million people? uhm someone needs to school this man...Nigeria is home to over 140 million people. Abi did he go to Ojuelegba and think that was the entire country?....He then proceeded to talk about to how Nigerians are taught at an early age how to scam and there are even courses on scamming in Nigerian schools, right down to Nigerian primary schools. Ok, maybe I am an ajebota and did not attend Onigbongbo community school, but can anyone please tell me what school in Nigeria teaches students how to scam. This is the false information that the media panders to naive and ignorant Americans, who as far as they are now concerned have learned that All Nigerians are scammers.

Mr Ross goes on to say that Americans are the primary targets of these scams because scammers see them as "mugus"—which means "big, gullible fools."(For the record, I definitely see him as a mugu for misleading the American audience).

Meanwhile all this time, the Judge (Oprah) is just sitting down there like a mugu shaking her head and taking it all in while unintentinally misleading her audience. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying Nigerians are not scammers; I am sure everyone with an email address has received an email from a Nigerian claiming to be the brother of the late Igwe who had over 150million dollars sitting in his back account and wants to transfer the money to you. We've all gotten those emails. But we know better than to fall for them. Actually come to think of it, people who fall for these scams really are mugus. The way the news piece was presented made it seem as though all Nigerians - Young and Old- are scammers. They presented it as if all Nigerians have a DNA strand called "Scamonucleic whatever" Mr. mugu (Ross) showed one little kwe kwe kwe house like this and called it a mansion by Nigerian standard, I mean what da hell, If he wants to see state of the art houses, he should come to naija...we build houses with bricks and blocks, unlike America we do not build with plank and plywood. Besides what do the size of houses have to do with scam artists in Nigeria?..again, the news media will squeeze in anything negative so as to console their audience that things in America are not as bad as they seem, look! In Nigeria they have it worse.

At the end of the rather redundant show, Oprah gave a clichéd disclaimer of some sort; She said "Save ur letters, I am not saying all Nigerians are bad, just the scammers"...I was like fucking moron, didn't you just imply that all Nigerians are scammers? so how the hell would your middle aged housewives or to be politically correct "Stay-At-Home Moms" who watch ur show, know the difference between a scammer and regular hard-working Nigerian?...hissssssss

I am just angry Jare, ignore me..hope ya'll have a happy Sunday..

O.I.U