We all have our crosses to bear...
"Racism" is like pornography: hard to define but everyone knows it when they see it! Problem is, what you see, I might not see and vice-versa.
I often had people pull out the "race card" during my time in Nigeria. It's just something one has to put up with, I guess. Once in a while I had to admit my accuser was probably right, come to that. You really cannot sort out your thoughts and feelings to the degree that your average idealist might like you to. It would be like watching the video replay versus being in the game; sometimes we get it wrong in the heat of the action.
There's a real problem in Nigeria with people seeing things just the way they are presented to them. There used to be a fellow who was operating "the largest airline in Africa" with a scandalous number of ex-pat engineers going unpaid who was noted for disbursing local funds out the window of his car to the joy of the general populace in his town.
It used to be so that one could steal millions and then hand out hundreds of thousands to be greeted as some sort of philanthropist. Well, desperate people just learn not to ask too many questions, I think.
I'm up in North Africa now. There are the locals and the South Africans as the African contingent and a broad swathe of Europeans, the odd Canadian and me as the token Yankee. I think I am just the same as I used to be in Nigeria but the funny thing is, no one seems to think that I am any sort of racist! Perhaps getting that JAR licence made a better person out of me.
When you look at the problems in Nigeria I think you can exercise a lot of tolerance when the odd post here pops up with some weird combination of threats and boasts. CJ750 probably could have been more diplomatic in his request for information about Lagos, but look what he got in return! A neutral observer might well think that, yes, there are some problems there when he can read something along the lines of, "My country is great and I will make big trouble for anyone who says different!"
You don't see the South Africans threatening trouble in that way. I wonder why that is? (Just a rhetorical question there: please, please, do not bother to tell me why!)
Perhaps if and when Nigerian airlines start operating more flights outside the country then the indigenous pilots will calm down a bit with all this shouting about how good their standards are compared to everyone else's. Too, they might take some of what they learn abroad home. We all have something to learn from other cultures, even one you might think of as flawed by "racism," just for one.