.@nimaelbagir
#BlackPawns vs. #ProudBlacks
1/ Taking the conflict in N. Ethiopia as an opportunity, #African and #Ethiopian elites who despise #Ethiopia and #panafricanism have come out of the woodwork in droves.
#BlackPawns vs. #ProudBlacks
1/ Taking the conflict in N. Ethiopia as an opportunity, #African and #Ethiopian elites who despise #Ethiopia and #panafricanism have come out of the woodwork in droves.
2/ These are people who grew up convinced that it was a great miscarriage of justice that they were born black. Deep inside they keep thinking they should have been born white. The injustice of it all!
2/ They spend their whole lives chasing after the illusory dream of being as light skinned as possible. They work hard, they cajole and beg and suck up to their bosses. They even pray! And yet, they wake up every day bound in that black skin.
In their eyes, a proud black nation is an abomination! When they see proud black people, they rub their eyes, shake their heads and mutter "How dare they?!"
3/ @nimaelbagir, is a case point. If you were mystified by her attitude towards Ethiopia, the answer lies in these passages. Born in Sudan, she spent only a fraction of her adult life in Sudan. Her father is "very pan-Arab and horrified by any kind of African identity." 
@nimaelbagir does not identify as black African as well. She rather identifies as Arab and English!
4/ If you ever wonder where @nimaelbagir get the lens she looks out of with regard to the conflict in Ethiopia, you don't need to look very far. It is from the conflict in Darfur which she covered as a journalist with @Reuters.
The passage below reflects the inner turmoil of a black skinned woman who identifies as Arab, covering alleged atrocities of an Arab Sudanese government against the dark skinned Darfurians.
5/ But this is absolutely the wrong lens to look at the Ethiopian conflict with. Ethiopia is not Sudan and Tigray is not Darfur and we are not @nimaelbagir!
Unlike Nima and Co., we Ethiopians have no illusions about who we are. We are very comfortable in our black skin and our identity as #Ethiopians and #Africans.
Identity is a terrible thing to run away from, wherever you go there it is!
Identity is a terrible thing to run away from, wherever you go there it is!
These thread is dedicated to Ethiopian and African John and Jane Blacks, analysts and politicans who dream of the next Darfur that would catapult their career at the expense of a proud black nation. Sorry to disappoint you, but it ain't gonna happen!
#ProudBlacks
#NoMore
#ProudBlacks
#NoMore
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