Kobi Patricks Blog

Every time I see a white Nissan Altima, my palms go sweaty, and my knees get weak. It’s an involuntary reaction born of so many nights being driven around Asokoro pinned to the floor of Tunji’s white Nissan Altima, barely able to breathe, the stench of weed stinging my eyes while I choked on the penis of whomever it pleased Mustapha to force me to pleasure that day. I can’t have music playing while driving around in a car either. Or just sitting around at home. I can’t have music playing period. Especially not Maroon5. If I get into your car, please drive in fucking silence or you will make it hard for me to breathe.   Right now there are thousands of people running wild with their “opinions”, talking authoritatively about what Mustapha, Abdul, Tunji, and their band of friends and brothers did to me, as if they were there. As if they hovered around us unseen like evil spirits, listening to everything that was said, seeing everything that happened, as if they know. ...

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari and the Queen of England at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting today. The Queen hosted a reception for new Common Heads of government as San Anton Palace.

Did You Know Way back in The early 20th Century...the game of chess was actually played by real human figures depicting the pieces used in the game .

Adopted by the Nazi Party in the 1930s, Hitler's infamous "sieg heil" (meaning "hail victory") salute was mandatory for all German citizens as a demonstration of loyalty to the Führer, his party, and his nation. August Landmesser , the lone German refusing to raise a stiff right arm amid Hitler's presence at a 1936 rally, had been a loyal Nazi. Landmesser joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and began to work his way up the ranks of what would become the  only legal political affiliation  in the country. Unknown Irma Eckler. Two years later, Landmesser fell madly in love with  Irma Eckler , a Jewish woman, and proposed marriage to her in 1935. After his engagement to a Jewish woman was discovered, Landmesser was expelled from the Nazi Party. Landmesser and Eckler decided to file a marriage application in Hamburg, but the union was denied under the newly enacted  Nuremberg Laws . The couple welcomed their first daughter, Ingrid, in Oc...

Getty Images     Millennials are moving away from organized religion, but the observant remain devout While the U.S. as a whole remains overwhelmingly religious, overall the country has become less so in recent years due largely to a growing group of Americans who say they have no particular religious affiliation , according to a Pew Research survey released Tuesday.  The number of Americans who say they are religiously unaffiliated climbed from 16% in 2007 to 23% in 2014, a trend primarily driven by the widespread shift away from organized religion among younger Americans. Fewer than half (44%) of older Millennials—people born between 1981 and 1989—say religion is very important to them, a stark difference from older generations. That decline in religiosity is even more pronounced among younger Millennials, but part of that effect may be due to people growing more religious over time, Pew cautions. The unaffiliated are unsurprisingly ...