While Nigeria may struggle with tribalism and nepotism, on the other side of the Atlantic, the nagging issue is racism, whether benign, covert or in your face.

Is Love Racist? is a new show in the UK that tries to dig beneath the surface of interracial relationships to show biases that whites have against blacks. Many call the UK’s brand of racism quiet and sophisticated. According to Charlie Cuff, this show comes with a shock factor that ought to make white people realise how deeply racism is embedded in the society.

Kelechi Okafor has a vastly different opinion about it. She thinks the show will change nothing. White people know they are racist and simply don’t care, she says. By the end of the thread, you’ll find out that a deeper issue lurks, one which has an affinity with all men, regardless of race. They call it misogyny or patriarchy.

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I think that's the same for white English men. The tradeoff in spending your days thanklessly teaching them, is accessing their power.

— Kelechi Okafor (@kelechnekoff) July 18, 2017

I just wonder if people consider that when dating or whether they pretend love has got everything to do with it.

— Kelechi Okafor (@kelechnekoff) July 18, 2017

So in answer to #IsLoveRacist no love isn't racist, but white people are. x

— Kelechi Okafor (@kelechnekoff) July 18, 2017

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Whenever I see my Asian students with a white bf I wonder about if she's being exoticised and can only hope her humanity is being recognised

— Ms T (@Nubikitty) July 18, 2017

I lived in Colombia for 7 months and it was the SAME thing… The undesirables came looking for wives in Latin America pic.twitter.com/7LwMpnXqxT

— Baby Girl (@Shar1_says) July 18, 2017

YOU NOT LYING!!!!! Eastern European men never ever do this like European colonisers…even to some extent Italians too pic.twitter.com/q5FMG90pGM

— Baby Girl (@Shar1_says) July 18, 2017

Western European men make me more afraid. They were the main culprits behind colonialism so are the ones with the dominance issues

— Baby Girl (@Shar1_says) July 18, 2017

Come to Colombia mate. I have never been to a country where there so many men…looking for women to trap pic.twitter.com/F9xUKIQbgw

— Baby Girl (@Shar1_says) July 18, 2017

What they do instead is call you bitter and say "That's why I came to Colombia because the women know their place" pic.twitter.com/UQ8H6Lq3W8

— Baby Girl (@Shar1_says) July 18, 2017

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Wow.