Nigerians in the News...

I am an avid reader of The Temporary Attorney Blog and what I often find most entertaining is the comments. There is the "Lisa Needs Braces" chant, which reads like this:

DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!

DENTAL PLAN! LISA NEEDS BRACES!

I don't really understand the point. I guess it's about temp attorneys needing benefits.

The other comments that are often quite funny (although extremely racist) are those about Nigerians. Apparently, there's a feeling that they are infiltrating our temp job markets and accepting less pay. I worked with a lovely Nigerian Lady and she wasn't at all like that. Those comments read like the following:

I remember when I got sworn in in a court with a marble bust of Bejamin Cardozo the judge told the drivers license like crowd of how proud they and their families should be of their achievement. It's been downhill from there. Being a prostitute is more noble than being a lawyer. The Nigerians were smiling taking photo-ops that day. Maybe happy that they outsmarted the system while everyone else was drowning in $200k of debt and three years wasted so that they could have the privilege of campus life. Like the Touro professor test driving every hot body on campus. Then throwing them away for the next slutty looking airhead.

and...

Ruthless? I mean they are just letting the Irish and the Nigerians take over all of the big and shit law firms in NY in addition to all of the recruiting agencies. Seem like every time I look I see another Jew firm taking on Nigerian and Polish names on their letterheads. They are such pussycats that a jew can't even get a job in law anymore. They only thing left to them is lox distribution.

and...

What do u have against everybody? Send the Nigerians back and be done with it. There is no need to be so offensive. Drop Dead Spoiled Brad with Oversized Ego!

Wow! Aren't they horrid? Well, if any of those anonymous posters read my blog, I found this article about Nigerians. It is sure to push some Temp Attorneys over the edge. Apparently, a Nigerian State Government has sponsored 45 indigenes of the state for a programme at the Nigerian Law School, Abuja at the cost of N15 million."

Yippy! More Nigerians! We should welcome them to our abysmal job market with open arms!