YOU BLAME SAWYER, I BLAME THE SYSTEM

I remember back in the days when parents, teachers, pastors, alfas etc declared war against black rubber wristband A K A 'Black Power'. Those who witnessed this era will know what i am talking about. It was really bad!

Some 20 years after, in a country where
the Presi is a zoologist, Vice, an Architect, and several Special Assts within the corridor of power are PhD holders, the cure or let say, the containment of the deadly Ebola virus was left in the hands of the 'anti-black power' movement who at their best can only come up with a solution like: "Use a mixture of salt, alum, palm-oil and hot water to bath at 12midnight".

While the political leaders and those who should know better are busy scoring cheap political points by publicly bathing in anti-bacterial hand sanitizer, the satanic bloggers who will do anything to drive traffic to their sites took advantage of the silence of information to further spread the confusion.

The religious charlatans capitalised on the fear created by the whole situation to sell their wares: anointing oil, hankie, body cream etc, and to also initiate programmes and conventions to further fleece their members.

You can blame Sawyer. I blame the system.

Na my food; Allow me abeg

So because somebody with influence can't stand the sight of 'wet bread' he/she then used that same influence to say it is wrong to dip bread inside tea when eating, and it became widely accepted as one of the many sins of table manners.

Which kain thing be dis? Why must somebody tell me how to chop my chop?

So make i dey chop dry bread like that....una want make i choke?
The tea and the bread...no be inside the same belle dem dey go? Dem no go still mix? The bread no go still wet?

Una no dey dunk bread inside stew/soup?

Infact dem even say it is RUDE make i dey drink tea with while the spoon is still left inside my cup!
I ask why? Dem say because i fit mistakenly swallow my spoon or use am comot my eyes?!
Dem even tell me how to properly stir my tea: ' Place your tea spoon at the six o'clock position and softly fold the liquid towards the twelve o'clock position two or three times'. WHO GET TIME FOR DIS KAIN RUBBECH?!

It is even a sin to use spoon drink my tea! So make i no use sense test wether the thing don cool down or not abi? Make i just use faith drink am come burn all my mouth?!

Mschew.......

Please allow me to address this issue of class status, dinning etiquette, social protocols, morals etc.

In the Victorian Era, the upper class represented a status of birthright. It was not a social state one could achieve by economic or financial rights. One has to be born into it. These are the Abisades, Abisinuolas, Abisoyes etc. People within this class are educated differently. They have standards as to how one behaved and was received within their social circle.

What we have today is what i call adultrated upper class. This consist of people who has transformed themselves into the upper class through thier economic or financial status by hook or by crook. These are the Olowolagbas, Olowookeres, Ajirobas, Fiwagboye etc.
Permit me to say at this junction that these are not the true upper class for which the social protocols and etiquette of the Victorian era apply to. Wahala lasan ni won ko ara won si. No level of adherence to these rules can even turn them into the real upper class.

Let me also say it loud and clear here that social protocols and ettiqutte are not synonymous with morals or ethics.
Someone who is well-mannered may not have any morals, whilst a highly ethical person may not have the command of any social graces.
So i ask which is more important? Learning the correct manner of how to stir your cup of tea or well-mannered to treat others with dignity and respect?

I would hope that true class transcends one's economic or financial status, race, creed and color.


(Dipping things continue mi o r'aye osi).