Teodrose Fikre
Founder at Ghion Journal
Teodrose Fikre is the co-founder and editor of the Ghion Journal. A published author and prolific writer, a once defense consultant was profoundly changed by a two year journey of hardship and struggle. Going from a life of upper-middle class privilege to a time spent with the huddled masses taught Teodrose a valuable lesson in the essence of togetherness and the need to speak against injustice.
Originally from Ethiopia with roots to Atse Tewodros II, Teodrose is a former community organizer whose writing was incorporated into Barack Obama's South Carolina primary victory speech in 2008. He pivoted away from politics and decided to stand for collective justice after experiencing the reality of the forgotten masses. His writing defies conventional wisdom and challenges readers to look outside the constraints of labels and ideologies that serve to splinter the people. Teodrose uses his pen to give a voice to the voiceless and to speak truth to power.
Originally from Ethiopia with roots to Atse Tewodros II, Teodrose is a former community organizer whose writing was incorporated into Barack Obama's South Carolina primary victory speech in 2008. He pivoted away from politics and decided to stand for collective justice after experiencing the reality of the forgotten masses. His writing defies conventional wisdom and challenges readers to look outside the constraints of labels and ideologies that serve to splinter the people. Teodrose uses his pen to give a voice to the voiceless and to speak truth to power.
Latest posts by Teodrose Fikre (see all)
- #MeToo to #WeToo: Stop Politicizing Women’s Pains and Let’s Address Sexual Assaults - April 3, 2019
- The Age of Public Serpents - March 31, 2019
- Letter to Prime Minister Ahmed: Disavow Globalism and Lead an Adwa Awakening - March 28, 2019
A public lynching was as much a campaign of mass-terror as it was an act of murder. Slaves, who I rightly refer to as capital prisoners, were brutally and systematically coerced into subjugation by despicable racists who saw nothing wrong with trading humans as chattel as they profited from America’s holocaust. Each time a man, woman or a child was lynched, it was a message to their community to stay in their lanes or end…