Murax wrote:Voltage,
Sxb for awhile I've been hearing this passive type talk from You saying theres no reason for Marexaan to take an inititive, sooner or later it will be in the hands of a Gov anyway etc. This logic is wrong and makes no sense. 1st of all, Somalia hasn't had a Gov for 20 years and nobody is trying to wait another 20 without basic Gov instiutions. This Gov may work out, or it May not but right is on the side of Xoogsade on this one in not waiting for the calvalry to save the day. You need to change that passive thinking.
It comes out as "passive" simply because I don't feel comfortable rooting for war in some godforsaken faraway land from my comfortable American surroundings.
Sxb, I went that hellhole. I saw it with my own eyes. I saw how our people live from Kenya to Somalia to Uganda. I have seen the despair in the streets, the uncertainty in people's eyes, the hopelessness, and the fact people were planning crossing on rickety boats through tumultous waters just to escape that hell or trek all those lands and conceive of all sorts of hopeless plans to get to where I live today.
Whether Marehan is all powerful or not, I feel as affected by the Ogaden or Gaaljecel or Raxanweyn they have to trample over to reach retarded form of power in the biggest hellhole on earth. What makes me immune to Ogaden suffering when I condone my Marehan to collect money and weapon to rule over them?
For the last three years I have been slowly moving away from thinking in the single prism I used to thinking in to accepting all Somalis as close to me as any Marehan is and being affected by any and all suffering by any Somali in that wretched land called Somalia.
That is why I wanted to go to Africa and see for myself and it reinforced the opinion I had already been forming. The fact of the matter is Marehanimo is NOT greater than Somalinimo and being Marehan does not give me the right to ignore all suffering and despair of Somalis especially when it could potentially come at the hands of my own Marehan people.
I want peace, security, prosperity, happiness, ingenuity, development for Marehan and Gedo/Caabudwaaq.
But the thing is I want it for all other Somalis as well.
To be honest, when I look at Qansa go and read something such as Mareexaan > Somalinimo I just shake my head and realize why we still don't have a government. That is such a sad and ignorant opinion it's even beyond believable. He lives in the U.S in a country where his Americaness is validated on account of being just a citizen, went to college, had all that chance as not even white but also not even an original American Black. What brought him and what gave him the opportunity to restart a new life here? But when it comes to his country of birth and tribalism politics his thinking is 100% primitive and jaahil. I hope he can open his eyes.