Ewnetim anchi lij yelibe tirita litihogni minim
alkereshem. Its like I keep a checklist of things to
vent about especially for you, dear friend. Mitish,
this past week has been ... umm ... interesting, for
lack of a better word. I saw a documentary 'Black
Gold' , amazing work by the way, about Ethiopian
coffee and the world market. Mitish woyneeeeeeeee the
film did such a good job of contrasting the average
farmer in Ethiopia, dirt poor, and the starbucks
tetekamioch here in the U.S. Wey mitish ... beka inja
you'd simply be amazed by human being and our ability
to exist in an 'alayehum alsemahum' state ... the
companies were not even willing to give interviews ...
ende ... min lilu? Bicha that got me thinking about a
lot of things we talked about earlier as well ... you
know on development. Sometimes you feel like you'd
just end up another drop in the ocean, an idealist
trying to combat the horrific problems of this world.
But then sometimes, you sort of gaze into the future,
and you see yourself in your mundane existence and
you're jolted right back to where you are; an idealist
but a content one at least. I was talking to your
uncle today ina mitish he also said the same thing ...
he was saying how he looks at his students who come to
him and cry about the ONE requirement they REALLY
REALLY don't want to take for graduation and how
unfair the world is because of that blah blah blah ...
and he was just like "I compare this to REAL problems
back home and sometimes I wish I had involved myself
in a career" and these were his exact words "which I
can actually bring a change in someone's life". Beka,
very simply put and yet so profound mitisha. ...
wouuouuuuuuuuuuu yibkagn mitish I could literally go
on forever ...
Darling, I recently read this article which was
talking about how in a thousand years humanity will be
divided into two races, one which will be beautiful,
tall, thin and intelligent while the others will
evolve into short, ugly and mentally slow species
whose sole existence will be to serve the superior
race. And then there was this scientist who by the way
had won the Nobel Prize in the past, declared that the
reason policies are not working in Africa was because
the western world considered the Black race its equal.
In his opinion, Blacks are less intelligent and by
considering them our equals, we were actually hurting
them. He also said if we wanted proof of this to ask
people who had black employees. And so there was a
huge uproar and he was banned from giving a talk in
London blah blah ... Mitish, when I read this beka I
can't even begin to explain how I felt. This is a
scientist eko for goodness sake and he he's a
PROFESSOR at some big shot university in New York,
Columbia or NYU ... dunno ... gin beka inja ... the
world yasferal mitish ... betam betam ... Can you
imagine how many impressionable minds he can actually
convince of his theory ... who was it that said the
only sure thing is that history will keep on repeating
itself? ay mitisha ... ahun ahunish I'm starting to
believe that ....
[ discussion of interracial marriage too place here – chose to exclude it for the privacy of others ]
... like you
said yegnanis man awekew gin isn't it just amazingly,
freakishly sad and weird? Degmo miyasikew inezih
lijoch ... how do you say it, "cream of the crop
mehonachew" ... mitiye ... inja I'm feeling really
weird ... yiyyyyyyyyyyyy i wish you were here. There
days when things just don't make sense ... at all ...
... good luck on
work ... read you soon. wedishalew.
--- Rihana Nesrudin
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