I don’t think that there is any Eritrean in this forum that I haven’t tried to understand by engaging him or her directly on this forum in order to learn their ideology and identity, perceived or real.
I tried it keeping in mind the tragedy of external colonization that separated people of the same motherland and their subsequent long struggle for independence.
Prudence dictates amending the tragedy instead of worsening it.
In my view, their identity as part of the cradle is unmistakable.
Grievance of the tragedy of the external colonization is understandable.
However, I don’t think that grievance can translate into an ideology. This is why I tried hard to understand their ideology, in the cradle no less.
The ancient Pharaohs had an ideology.
The onset of monotheism was divine.
ቀዳማዊ ምኒልክ was a ancient heuristic ideology.
A Solomonic Dynasty was a meditated ideology.
ዳግማዊ ምኒልክ was a continuation of the ancient heuristic ideology.
The same goes for the effort to restore the meditated Solomonic Dynasty.
A close observation of history suggests that there is a clear continuity of polity in Ethiopia from the times of the Pharaohs to this era.
Wisdom dictates coalescing around this continuity of polity, sorting out the ancient perceptions from contemporary realities, and developing it instead of disenfranchising it along linguistic groups.
A community of a single linguistic group is ideal.
A diversity of linguistic groups in about every country of the world, including Eritrea, is real.
So, I don’t think that linguistic diversity is a terminal problem against coalescing around one of the longest continuous polities of the world.
U.S. House Representative Joe Neguse cannot be mistaken for an Ethiopian in both physique and his last name.
I am not sure if English is his mother tongue. He can use it as a legislator in the U.S. Congress.
So, who is a Joe Neguse as a U.S. legislator who can’t look up the statue of the Pharaoh par excellence in the hall of the U.S. Congress and go to Ethiopia’s legislature hall to lecture about the history behind the statue he frequently sees where he works?
He doesn’t have to take my words about the Pharaoh par excellence. Sigmund Freud, Ahmed Osman, and the late Ethiopian Laureate Tsegaye Ghebremedhin have written about it.
I have yet to encounter an Eritrean in this forum whose thinking processes are along these short commentary.
Prove me wrong.
Their unenlightened argument: በእነሱ ቤት ገብረ ክርስቶስ ማለት ጽድቅ ነዉ፣ በኣፄ የኩኖ ኣምላክ ዘመን የተወለደ አማርኛን መናገር ባርነት ነዉ።
