Consider this some tough love from someone who loves Ethiopia dearly and respects our elders and our heritage. However, it is time for some truths to be spoken. You can take my words as harm of you can take them for what they are, bitter medanit (medicine). For the longest time, elders in Ethiopia kept our country together, upheld our heritage and were the glue that kept communities from destroying one another. Not anymore, elders have become Ethiopia’s crucible.
When the Derg deposed Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, they targeted the elders as they murdered tens of thousands of community leaders in order to destabilize my birth land. Centuries of passed down stories and aspects of our culture that were preserved for thousands of years were buried in the same unmarked graves where countless professors, lawyers, doctors and civic leaders were entombed. They did this for a reason, a household without parents enables criminals to easily manipulate orphans.
The same students who were agitating against Haile Selassie stepped into the vacuum and became leaders before they were wise enough to lead. Instead of learning at the feet of scholars, philosophers and profound thinkers, men and women in their teens, twenties and thirties took over the helm. Though some demanded that Ethiopians stay true to their heritage and honor our traditions, the vast majority were quick to throw away the very essence of our culture in order to adopt foreign ideologies and identities.
The Derg personified this bastardization of Ethiopia as they imposed the broken ideology of Marxism and started to erase Ethiopiawinet. Where the Derg left of, TPLF picked up and wiped away all elements of our nearly 3,000-year history as they placed ethnicity above nationality and our common humanity while stitching a demonic pentagram on our flag. Malicious snakes like Herman Cohen and Zbigniew Brzezinski preferred TPLF for one reason, they knew they could count on Meles Zenawi and his ilk to demolish Ethiopia through the auspices of “ethnic federalism” which is really apartheid 2.0.
As much as I blame leaders like Mengistu, Meles and now Abiy for cracking the foundation of Ethiopia, the truth is that I blame the Derg generation more than anyone else. The students who rebelled against Haile Selassie never grew up; instead of aging gracefully and taking on the role of elders whom Mengistu abolished with bullets in the 1970s, many remained petulant thanks to their arrested development. Over the years, they picked up grey hairs and lost follicles yet few were able to gain wisdom. Men and women in the 60s and 70s acting the part of children, they are leading Ethiopia right over the cliff.
I witness their petulance daily on social media and observe their pettiness in person too often for my liking. Instead of guiding the youth and empowering them, “elders” insist on competing with them. Like Moses using Joshua to get credit for guiding Jews to the promised land, sexagenarian and septuagenarians actively get in the way of a younger generation who have an abundance of talent but few mentors to lead them.
Yesterday, I was at the Ethiopian Day Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland. Before I attended the celebration, I stopped by an Ethiopian cafe to get coffee for myself and cookies for my son. When I entered, I saw an older business owner whom I have helped plenty of times in the past and have maintained a pretty cordial relationship with. I approached him to say hello and the first thing he asked me was if I got “vaccinated”.
What @MordechaiSones is getting at is a deadly risk of Antibody-Dependent Enhancement #ADE that’s “specific & significant” for people who get “vaccinated”. @RWMaloneMD warned about this; so did @NIH on their website! Get jabbed at your peril! #LotsWarning https://t.co/xhwhLerERv
— Teodrose Fikremariam (@Teodrose_Fikre) September 6, 2021
He was being antagonistic of course; he reads my articles, he knows perfectly well that I would rather eat razor blades wrapped with injera before I inject myself with experimental “vaccines” that are ineffective and have claimed the lives of over 13,000 Americans to date. Despite his best attempts to get a rise out of me, I told him that I have no intention of getting jabbed. He then decides to “educate” me only to get flustered when I debunked everything he was saying. Realizing that he was on the losing end of the debate, he tried to lecture me about my parenting skills in the most insulting way possible.
I let him have a piece of my mind in ways he will never forget, I respect elders but I will not tolerate fools. The entire episode reminded me of the sad state of Ethiopia. Pride on pride, too many would rather argue like they know it all instead of admitting that they have limited knowledge. Later on that day, I attended the Ethiopian Day festival only to see politicians of all stripes being treated like gods by the organizers and attendees alike while the people who are actually doing the hard work of lifting our community are used and discarded like N-95 masks.
Congratulations on a successful and inspirational Ethiopian Day Festival in Silver Spring! pic.twitter.com/rzSAgAQNwk
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) September 2, 2019
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 that come with the honorifics. 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.
While I point a finger at the Derg generation for the sad state of Ethiopia and the disarray of the diaspora who have been scattered to the four corners of the world, I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the three fingers that are pointing at my generation and those who came after us. Too many of us have been infected with the germ of ego as we do everything we can to succeed as individuals while forgetting the collective whole.
Yet the more we achieve, the bigger the void in our hearts becomes. That is because we dishonor our ancestors and the very essence of what kept us free from colonization by refusing to collaborate and insist on a go-it-alone mentality only to get burned out and suffer for our refusal to believe in hebret. Even those of us who have the best intentions at heart rarely collaborate with others who are like-minded in our passions to help our community advance.
Unless change agents who want to build up the community build a community among ourselves, we will eventually burn out and our efforts will turn into dust to be talked about in the past tense.
Let me take a moment to admit my own foibles, as much as I blame some among the Derg generation for being divisive and displaying trollish behaviors, there was a time when I was as disruptive and trollish as they come. That was not my aim when I initially reentered the Ethiopian community in 2008, I was an idealist who wanted to unite Ethiopian-Americans to vote for Barack Obama so we can have our voices and desires elected. The more community events I did, the more the insults and thankless gestures multiplied. ‘
In due time, I went from preaching unity to flaming anyone who dared to come at me the wrong way. I returned fire with fire at all times until I got burned up by two years of homelessness. It took mind-bending hardship and suffering that was Jobian for me to check my ego at the door and embrace love above selfishness. As much as I have stopped flaming people with malicious intentions, I occasionally revert to my ego and sear people like the older gentleman in the cafe only to let the darkness of others dim my light.
This article is specifically intended for men, too many of whom have abandoned their responsibilities and instead let their women do most of the work while they hang out with their boys and have the time of their lives. I see it all too often—whether it’s at churches, social functions or beyond—where the women are slaving away while too many of us men sit down and talk politics and sports. It is time for us to do our part instead of putting all the onus on women who brought us into this world only to raise us as adults.
Ladies, until we act right, perhaps it is time to withhold love. After all, gursha that is taken for granted will be gursha that is begged for once it’s no longer there to be had.
A country that was never colonized by European powers has instead been colonized by her own people as we value outside acceptance and destroy ourselves from within. We call our Sendek Alema (flag) bandira, an Italian word that our forefathers fought against Adwa. We call ourselves Habesha, an insulting word that means etan lekami (frankincense picker) as we erase Ethiopia in the process. People who don’t know their history will soon enough perish, we are well on our way towards oblivion.
Ethiopians are deeply connected to God yet our actions belie our faiths on a regular basis. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all advise against turning to idols yet we can’t help ourselves as we worship personalities and bow before the rich and famous. Every leader throughout the world, including Abiy, Meles, Mengistu and Haile Selassie before them sold their souls to globalist serpents to gain power and yet we prostrate ourselves before them as if they are the second coming of Eyesus. In the process, we have ingested the poison of grievance politics as we protest about tribal causes while ignoring the plight of our brothers and sisters who belong to different clans.
Listen carefully, that is wrath coming for Ethiopia because we refuse to turn to God and instead have accepted the apple of Satan. Except God will not be the one punishing us, just like Adam and Eve went on an exodus from Eden due to shame and guilt, we too are about to lose our garden of Ethiopia because we would rather bite from the tree of ignorance to stroke our egos instead of eating humble pie for the sake of our children. The same leaders we adore are conspiring to give billions around the world free injections of experimental boosters, read Zecharias 13:8 to see what will come to pass.
We can continue trying the same tactics of tribalism, selfishness and indifference that lead to insanity or we can pivot and seek unity. For the sake of our children, I pray #Ethiopia|ns choose love. #AderaEthiopia Click To TweetWe have a choice before us, we can either stand by impotently and watch as Ethiopia implodes or we can work across all divides to reclaim our country from the jaws of demise. I truly believe in my heart that Ethiopia can lead the world away from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah but we can only do so if we quickly turn away from the devil’s offerings of division, jealousy and anger and instead quickly turn our hand back to God. I am looking for 100 Ethiopians of all ages who are willing to check their egos at the door and work collaboratively to become the change we want to see for our homeland and beyond.
If you are interested in joining this band arbegnoch who are willing to stand for what is right instead of sitting in apathy and grievance, email us at [email protected] with the subject header “hebret” and let us attempt something truly audacious. If we fail, we can look back and be proud that we tried. But if we succeed, we can start a revolution not of the gun like the Derg and TPLF’s but one of the heart and mind that can turn Ethiopia from a beggar country into a better nation. I hope to hear from you, may God bless Ethiopia and all of humanity::
“Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.” ~ Psalm 68:31
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