Before I stop singing this country song that has become my new normal ever since my wife and I took a road trip throughout the South, I would be remiss if I do not make an observation about the sad state of the Ethiopian community here in America. I don’t know what has become of us; if we were back in Ethiopia, when a marriage is on the rocks, the immediate family and the church would step into the breach in order to preserve a union that was taken before God with both family and church swearing to support the couple in times of hardship.
This is especially true when a young child is involved, but I guess people are too busy watching Rachel Maddow and gossiping about others to care about the truly vulnerable.
Sadly, the MedhaniAlem church in America is nothing like the MedhaniAlem Orthodox Church that I was baptized into in Ethiopia. It seems that we lost this deeply spiritual part of our culture somewhere over the Atlantic because the lack of urgency and concern by some family members and the abdication of responsibility by elders in church who made a vow to be there in times of crisis is mindboggling to me. We immigrated to America and left our traditions at Bole Air Port I guess yet we want to march and protest against the “white man” or TPLF attacking Ethiopia when all along the biggest enemy of Ethiopia are her children. Only in “Africa” do the children (citizenry) abort their own mother (nation) using indifference and outright malice as aspirators...continued...
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