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Anger and Bitterness Do Not Redress Injustice

Post by teodroseIII » 26 Aug 2019, 13:46

There is a reason why the wisest teacher once advise his disciples and all who would listen to love your neighbors as we love yourself. As we give to others, we give to ourselves. Kindness displayed is returned with joys. Hatred we impart manifests itself in our souls. Forgiveness and compassion in this sense is not so much for the receiver but for the person who is giving it.

This lesson is lost on many these days as more and more people have made the naïve decision to stand against injustice by wallowing in anger and vengeance. Animosity has become a cancer upon our land, whereas our forefathers believed in collective wellness and communal advancement, too many Ethiopians these days are running into their defensive corners and viewing the world through tribal lenses and seeking retribution through ethnic blinders.

Zeregnenet is a fever that is spreading throughout Ethiopia; like a virus that has no cure, it is festering and eating away at the fabric of our nation. In the race to monopolize pains, collective judgment has become the norm. Oromos blaming Amharas for persecution, Amharas blaming Tigrays for oppression, Tigrays blaming Amharas of chauvinism as the list of tribes vilifying other tribes is growing by the minute. What colonizers could not accomplish through cannons, we are doing to Ethiopia with our tongues. While some try to destroy Ethiopia outright, others who pretend to be about Ethiopiawinet do so through the narrow prism of ethno-nationalism.

I do not dismiss for a minute that various communities have been otherized and mistreated in the past and even in the present. But to blame the whole of a group for the sins of a few is not only myopic, it is immoral. All Ethiopians irrespective of the shades of our skin or the...continued...

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