To be honest, if I hadn’t been a member of this generation and had been reading a history book, I would have been surprised to find that my forefathers poisoned their own water and vegetation while desperately illegally mining for gold.
I would have wondered if there had been any intelligent people among them. To the extent that they were all encouraged to join in and support this illegal conduct against humanity. This educates and reaffirms for me that the black guy still has a long way to go before he can govern himself.
There is insufficient pushback against this idiocy.
Is it because the majority of us eat from the bloodied hands of politicians that we are terrified, or because we are complicit in the crime?
What about our countrymen in the diaspora?
Are they deceived ? or are they blinded by tribalism, ethnocentrism, partisanship, and so on, to the point where they mindlessly support all that their own do?
The more I think about it, the more I recognise that we are all participants in this tragedy since our opposition is far from powerful enough. Consider that children as young as 11 years old in North Africa may go on a hunger strike, shut down their capital city, and force a change in their government’s policies.
The fact that our country’s educated elites remain mute suggests that we are all complicit or are cowards. We have no choice but to prostrate ourselves in shame and take the necessary steps immediately, or we will have to accept that the next generation will see our acts as dumb and lacked courage or worse than caveman era.
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