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”.
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.
Nearly fifty years after they led a movement that gave rise to a violent revolution, the Derg generation continues to lead #Ethiopia right into the gutters of nihilism and selfishness. #NewDay4Ethiopia Click To TweetI 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 admiting 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 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.
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::
“Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.” ~ Psalm 68:31
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