Tough Love for My Fellow Ethiopians: Time to Put Away Childish Things and Grow Up
Posted: 06 Sep 2021, 23:41
Doctors who don’t heal, professors who don’t teach, leaders who don’t lead, Ethiopia is cursed with too many who covet titles while doing none of the work befitting the roles they pretend to fill. It’s sad, I know of hundreds of young Ethiopians who decided to help their community only for their community to chew them up and spit them out. Meanwhile, the Derg generation continues to be lavished with praise and given accolades as they lead Ethiopia right into the abyss as they continue to divide us and turn us against one another through tribalism.
My aim is not to paint with a broad brush, collective judgment is immoral so this article should not be taken as a condemnation of all who were students or older when the Derg rose to power the year I was born. To the contrary, the vast majority of people 60 and above contribute greatly to their communities and are a bedrock of their families. The people I’m referring to are those who waste the precious gifts God gave them to be divisive and seek attention more than they care about helping Ethiopia...continued...
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My aim is not to paint with a broad brush, collective judgment is immoral so this article should not be taken as a condemnation of all who were students or older when the Derg rose to power the year I was born. To the contrary, the vast majority of people 60 and above contribute greatly to their communities and are a bedrock of their families. The people I’m referring to are those who waste the precious gifts God gave them to be divisive and seek attention more than they care about helping Ethiopia...continued...
READ FULL ARTICLE AT: https://ghionjournal.com/tough-medanit- ... thiopians/