STOP THE BLAME
GAME & CONTRIBUTE TO THE CHANGE
“Hate is too great a burden to bear.” –Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., from his speech, “Where Do We Go From Here”
Again, like most
of my commentaries to refresh our thoughts, our pursuit of peace, happiness and
freedom appropriate with the current situations at Home and in the diaspora
communities, I can’t help but make some opinions on the constant backstabbing
of the popularly elected president who is serving our people without taking racially
motivated bickering sides. It’s become customary that every time someone is
jailed, we tend to blame the leader if he is not from the same racial
background.
Prime Minister
Abiy repeatedly announced that if anyone from any ethnic group causes any havoc
to the public and seem to be committing crime out of the ordinary, he or she
will be punished legally.
What we see at
the moment is untenable scenario repeating itself, accusing the Prime Minister
for jailing trouble makers from different racial background than his. We may
not use to complying with this sort of laws because of the long existed
favoritism by the governing racial groups. This sort of injustice is no longer
serving our people and now it’s affirmed that everyone is equal under the law. So,
let’s give the prime minister to do his job unconditionally, serving everyone
equally.
Because of all
the ethnic based disturbances and making unnecessary comments to disqualify the
prime minister for his wonderful work being nominated by foreign presses like
the Time Magazine’s “100 most influential people of 2022”. If we recall, in
2019, the current Ethiopian president, H.E. Ms. Sahle-Work Zewde, was also one
of the “100 most influential African womenof 2019”. So was Abiy Ahmed being
included in the 2019 listings as well.
The recent
reelection of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as the World Health Organization
(WHO) Director-General in 2022, again, for the second time after being elected
in May of 2017, is also commendable and we should be proud for the one in a
million foreign press acknowledgements that usually don’t favor to praise Afrikans.
Regardless of Tedros’s racial leanings toward his ethnic background, like all
other racially motivated insurgents who try to support their ethnic groups to
prevail, without racial profiling, he is still listed as an Ethiopian, Afrikan
and should be honored and congratulated.
“The secret of
change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building
the new.”–Socrates.
How ironic is
that, we tend to take our own illustrious leaders for granted, others tend to
appreciate them wholeheartedly. We must try to change by thinking in an innovative
approach.
We seem to throw
stones at each other from far away physically hitting no one but emotionally
bruising everyone, in doing so with no clear evidences or offering solutions to
criticisms to any comments being made by those contributing an alternative
opinion to solve the ongoing problem.
This is just my
observation of our academics’ explanations online, instead of rebutting with
evidences in a respectable manner customary to our culture on any remarks,
throwing condemnations based on emotions leaving the subject matter unresolved.
I don’t want to give examples of those articles or issues as it serves no
purpose but create divisions. You will know next time you read some of the
begetting of these commentaries online.
We’ve tried everything to transform our country and
nothing seemed to work. You know what, the ‘time is up’ and the only way is
U-N-I-T-Y without complaining pointlessly, competing recklessly, comparing
enviously, criticizing unreasonably by name calling and shaming hatefully for
mistakes of the past.
It seems our ego (sense of self) has taken over our
conscience. It’s shame that we simply don’t acknowledge or appreciate anything
because that seemed threatening to our intellectual territory. This shame can
lead us to deny or reject the simplest act of sharing, gratitude and validation
of somebody else’s thoughtful concepts.
When we let our ego convince us that we have done no
wrong and instead of repent begin to justify our actions, then we have chosen a
state of denial over truth, flesh over Spirit. If we consciously war against
our conscience, refuse to repent, ask for forgiveness and doing the right
thing, choosing rather to justify our actions by whatever theory we can come up
with allowing our ego defeat our conscience.
We might choose to go to war with our morality and
reassure ourselves with our ego by saying… it was not my fault, I was born this
way, it is genetic, my father or mother was this way, I was abused as a child,
God made me to act this way…, it is a way of life – all men or women do this –everybody
is doing it and so forth.
The list of excuses we might come up with abounds,
every time we justify our sinful actions for self-glorification, it seems our
ruthless ego (opinion of ourselves) has defeated our humane conscience to value
somebody else’s good thoughts.
Don’t get me wrong, you probably have seen it or
sensed this action was taking place and there is nothing negative about telling
the truth, “nothing but the truth”, rather than pretend and act as everything
is hunky-dory.
We have all changed in some way or another and seen
some of those changes either for good or otherwise, helping us or affecting our
interactions since the opening of information exchanges in a multitude of
social media outlets.
I,
for one, certainly, have noticed how the interactions motivated some of my
friends and the social media users to reinvent themselves unlike others who
have been overwhelmed by the wave of changes in methodological networking or
communications and apparently withdrew indefinitely or coyly remaining as a
silent passenger or unable to make their comments.
Remember, we may not have the prestige of
celebrities, the power of Pope or all other academic luminaries, but our
differences of opinion and stories are unique and equally valued, effective and
say something no one has expressed before and will reinforce others talents.
Thumbs up and hats off to those of you for being
resilient to care and share to disseminate what will be pivotal information for
everyone and also send my hearty message to those coyly pals to absorb all as
much as they can and put out their valued side of story. All we need is to
improvise our thoughts to change.
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