Tears of Ethiopia
Posted: 16 Nov 2020, 13:14
One government giving way to the next, each one worse than its predecessor. At each turn, we take to the streets and demand justice only to be ignored by the world and the only rewards for our toils are corns on our feet from marching and horsed voices from shouting. We have turned into a nation of individual grievances who refuse to listen to others who hurt. This is not to diminish the suffering of Ethiopians and the pains we express, but we’ve taken on the identity politics of the west and we are shattering a county that existed for three thousand years in the process.
It is so tragic, people who have a multitude of ethnicities in their blood are forced to pick sides. We throw stones at each other based on tribe not realizing those rocks land on our own ancestors. The legacy of solidarity that empowered our forefathers to accomplish the impossible at Adwa being erased daily and replaced by a doctrine of racism that is “ethnic federalism”. Our diversity, which has been the source of our strength, has been turned into a liability; ethnocentrism bleeding us of our commonalities and convincing us to act like a nation of Cains caning each other to death.
The agony of Ethiopians is deep and complex; those who left to escape repression always have their minds on the grind of living in a new country while their hearts are still parked back home. As if being an immigrant is not hard enough, being an immigrant from a war torn country triples the grief. Those who are back in Ethiopia have to negotiate between inflation and tribal politics that is tearing society at the seams. Layered on top of these difficulties are the intricacies of historical injustices that all ethnic groups have felt which live to this day. But instead of listening to each other, despair has turned us against each other...continued...
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It is so tragic, people who have a multitude of ethnicities in their blood are forced to pick sides. We throw stones at each other based on tribe not realizing those rocks land on our own ancestors. The legacy of solidarity that empowered our forefathers to accomplish the impossible at Adwa being erased daily and replaced by a doctrine of racism that is “ethnic federalism”. Our diversity, which has been the source of our strength, has been turned into a liability; ethnocentrism bleeding us of our commonalities and convincing us to act like a nation of Cains caning each other to death.
The agony of Ethiopians is deep and complex; those who left to escape repression always have their minds on the grind of living in a new country while their hearts are still parked back home. As if being an immigrant is not hard enough, being an immigrant from a war torn country triples the grief. Those who are back in Ethiopia have to negotiate between inflation and tribal politics that is tearing society at the seams. Layered on top of these difficulties are the intricacies of historical injustices that all ethnic groups have felt which live to this day. But instead of listening to each other, despair has turned us against each other...continued...
READ FULL ARTICLE AT: https://ghionjournal.com/tears-of-ethiopia/