The N... word

When speaking about this issue, the word Nigger and its perplexing menaing always comes to mind. Blacks, especially lower class blacks have decided not to let go off the word while the NAACP (the strongest black association in the US) has actually, literarly, buried the word, as if some one will burry a dead person in Ethiopia or any part of the world. They are dividded over the issue. The lower class sticking to the word eventhough the so called American whites has called balks the word for over 300 years. And the upper class society has decied not even to mention the word, even amongest themselves. The upper class soceiety, who are actually the enlightened ones should be the ones holding the banner of Choice for the majority, and I beleieve they shlould be heard and repsected. They have buried the word for reasons, the primary one being, that noting good/poistitive comes otu of a negative word so why still use it when you have the choice not to. Back in the days you have no choice to be called a nigger or a negro now a days blacks call them elves Nigga (with out the r at the end) as if it will bring some kind of positive outcome. But I truly belive if blacks decide to use it then they should not be mindful other use it also....because after all language is a universal and also individual property, no body should or will have sole power to own it. If you say it then everybody have the right to use it when or wherever they want. Some say the word balck is the new Nigger!....I do not know.

The word Habesha/ Abesha

Recently I have been dumbfounded by the speech I received from a person I admired who lives in the neighborhood. He questioned my belief and told me what you see or hear specially regarding names has far more meaning than we think it does. He spoke to me about the word Habesha or Abesha and its meaning we and others have for it.

The word habesha is widely used every where in the US and around in the world. I am not so sure how much usage it has in Ethiopia. It basically stands for the word Ethiopian. My friends basic question was why use the word habesha when we have a far greater, more beautiful word lik Ethiopian? If somebody is going to call you by the word habesha or Ethiopian for the rest of your life, instead of your name, which do you prefer?

As I heard from some, Telke sawoch talk, the word habesha is actually Arabic in origin and it means Kiyete, or mix of white and black? Are Ethiopians mix of what and black? I know that all Ethiopians know that, they are not a mix of some sort, however after long time of using dealing with Arabs and living along side we have taken the word as our own, with out even fully understanding the meaning.

So now you know what it means does it has any negative connotation with you? It does with me. Before I know what it means i cared less what it meant, now if an Arab person called me habesha, I wont be offended but I will ask him politely what it means and once he tells me what it means I will tell him the meaning doesn't represent who I am....because I pure bloooooded Ethiopian.....you could count back my generation. And politely request to be called Ethiopian.

I have been wondering a lot of times about the different ethnic groups that live in Ethiopia, how they have been coexisting with each other or in some cases spying on each others back. The tigres are the most interesting because they have been, in my personal opinion from what I read and heard so far, they have been disloyal to the whole Ethiopian establishment.

some Actually say Menlik II would have been able to chase away the Italian little men off the whole Ethiopia if he wanted to. However a very strategic and wise man he is that has no parallel in the Ethiopian history, he decided to cut off part of the tigre region. This is not hundred percent true, it something next to afe-tarek, no body wrote down what his plan was, because he never spoke about it. Lot of Ethiopians and the whole world believe that he decided to stop where stopped because of his fear his army will be heavily injured if he continues, because the Italians are being forced to the edge of the world, Red sea.

However, if we say his decision was heavily impacted by the dis-loyal Tigras or todays eritreans, my next question will be was that wise decision? for whom? This question has been eating me away because I alway wonder what Ethiopia would have been able to do with red sea. But at the same time, i always wonder if we are having problem containing the Tigres we have at home, how hard would have been to contain 3 million more people on top of what we have today.

People it is my sincerity hope that you wont be offended by what i wrote or implies in my writing, if you do, fuck you, because you cant do what I do.