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Sunday, August 25, 2019
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Meet commissioner Abere Adamu, most likely a non-Amhara stooge or the rare greedy Amhara.
The video checks whether or not he had said something offensive with regards to Amhara. Whether or not he harshly claimed to eradicate every one who says "amhara" "amhara". Though he doesnt have the balls to make such a statement what he said is no less repulsive. Not only his dishonesty but also his intention.
In the video he speaks about those who say "Amhara" "Amhara" as being thieves and against the federal government who hope to create quarrels with the federal government. And brags about how he is eradicating them.
Let's see, a year ago while arguing on r/Ethiopia, I was the only person who screamed for the unity of Ethiopia and how tribalism is not the way to go pointing out the many dangers while all pro government Oromo, Tigray, etc... and even foreigners argued with me for tribalism.
Now forward one year, here we are after so many massacres, displacements, and "conflict", one that especially targeted Amharas. And so me speaking for Amharas, and criticizing the government's failure to arrest true political criminals who still cause havoc or even the failure to protect citizens, according to Abere Adamu makes me a thief, and anti federal government, etc... and that I and almost all Amharas, aside from cadres like him, should be some how eradicated.
This reminds me of a recent time where I walked in Bole. Aside from the time I partially recorded some cadre hooligans making threats by saying "if we touch her ,they will say she is vulnerable/female... and blame us" is another time where I walked across some regular building guard, one of the buildings that belong to beneficiaries I used to live in the same old neighborhood with in my teens, a regular middle class teacher just more than a decade ago who could barely afford to regularly eat at a restaurant. So this guard stood along side a couple of police officers and as I crossed them I heard him talking about wiping us out of the city. So this guard and police officers who did not live in addis ababa nor probably even heard of Bole by name a few years ago without any clue to the fact that I was born in Bole (lived there at the time of my birth) and moved back there later on to move out again in recent years, or that I shopped in the building he guards every week says this and with the police who seemed delighted. So I moved back to recorded them and immediately these pests dispersed. These are cadres and so easy to point out if you are keen enough to be acquainted with their traits and patterns.
Now who is a thief and anti Ethiopia? Abere Adamu the sudden "ethiopianist" or the people like who screams at wrongs being done, the failure to restore justice, and criticizing the federal government for being incompetent and repulsive for its actions and inactions, so people like me.
Abere Adamu in Ethiopian caladender 1994 seems to have worked with some now stopped unionist party and is known to have swindled funds as per the organization's very own released documents and due to this was fired. More over his fickle statements that shift with the tides and time shows what kind of person he is. He later joined another existing unionist party that I once respected as a teen but now am hesitant about. Why? Because it seems to have an ideology that Ethiopia should come at the expense of Amhara. It is also packed with non Amharas and very few Amahars who have been guilt tripped by the fabrications of Tplf and incultrated with its general anti Amhara ideology (the ideology that Ethiopia cant survive with the existence of Amhara). When the truth is infact the reverse. Even now in an ethnic federalist government these people want Amharas to abandon their ethnic identity and to be toyed with others who have ethnically organized themselves have been massacring Amharas through out the year in addition to the things that have been done for 27 years which I was too young too take keen notice of though the corruption and subversive tactics were an open public secret even I had some idea of which I would openly criticize and discuss with my friends even back then.
It is because of people like Abere Adamu, those I frequently refer to as slimes, that people like professor Asrat are exposed to danger and ultimately death. Or that people like Demise and others who speak up about wrongs are murdered. Or that others even me are targeted for gradual detoriarating subversive tactics both by beneficiaries of ex regime I have been vehemently criticizing and others with most likely government connections which I'm watching and studying keenly.
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Hello, hello
A few years ago I had an idea for a gift for my mom. On New Years/other holidays she enjoys preparing/sharing foods that are considered lucky - i.e. black eyed peas, grapes at midnight, longevity noodles etc. I was surprised that no cookbook existed specifically toward compiling "lucky foods" from different cultures/cuisines either associated with specific holidays or just in general. I've flirted with the idea of collecting a few recipes myself and printing them in a book for her, but have balked at the project until now. So - do any recipes come to mind? What foodstuffs bring you guys luck?
Thanks!
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Alright, so I was born and raised in the US, my dad's side I discovered is Nigerian (they all live in New York, whereas I live in Ohio, and my dad never told me much of them) and my family on my mom's side is from somewhere east Africa but idk any family history. I also have a lot of extended family from Eritrea, who I grew up with.
I also work with a lot of people from all over the world, of which many of them are mainly Somali, Ethiopian or Eritrean, Algerian and Moroccan, and some from the West, as far as African people go.
But to the point, I grew up around this and I've learned way more culturally and historically starting back during my freshman year of hs over 7 years ago now. At work for a while, in restaurants and festivals, international stores, etc., I feel like I always get these odd looks like I'm just some usual "Tyrone", bc I am light skinned and people always have to "discover" my background.
My grandma on my dad's side, iirc, is afro-latina, and his dad was lighter skinned too, and ok my mom's side my grandma is lightskinned as well, but we have no whites in our family. I actually got my DNA studied from 23andme to learn some things and discovered, to no surprise, I have a British ancestor some time around 300-400 years ago. So basically, I don't look "mixed" but I'm high yellow for sure.
But anyway, for instance there was one day I had just started this job recently and my trainer is Ethiopian, she was super surprised when she saw me eating injera at lunch and then next thing I know, literally an entire table of Ethiopian women are staring at me and saying things, giggling, some giving odd looks.
Before this type of stuff, everyone assumes I'm a mixed African-American, and subconsciously probably think I know very little of Africa. I feel like for a long time I've had to justify myself or try to prove something to make conversation or be looked at the same. It also does not help that, for example, I can't speak Amharic or Tigrinya either, even tho I grew up around native speakers.
And I've experienced, let's say attitudes, that show this. Like I walk into a spot to get some jollof and these mfs look at me like I'm an alien, or a white man in a dashiki. I have a lot of Somali friends at my job but a few of the others often looked confused at me if I'm sitting here eating sambusas and halwa with them lol.
So what I'm trying to say is, embarassingly I'm kind of discouraged to visit Africa once I get the time and money to do so bc if I've been treated all these weird and sometimes rude ways in America bc I don't really "look the part". I'd probably look like a colonizer the moment I step foot on African soil. Like I just imagine walking around Lagos speaking English like a pure American tourist.
I never thought deeply about this as a kid bc, for one I was just an ignorant child, and two bc it was a matter of family and I never really stepped out into a social environment before where I wasn't "familiar" to people. I can't say it's stopping me from traveling but it kind of works my nerves and makes me anxious.
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I was looking at the map of pollution on this website:
There you can see the usual culprits, China and Brazil, being the two major focal points on the globe. But there is a third huge concentration of carbon monoxide around what seems to be DRC. Anyone knows what is going on in there? Is this just from the industry or is something unusual going on?
EDIT: satellite image seems to indicate it's from a massive wildfire https://zoom.earth/#view=-10.772,19.486,6z/date=2019-08-22,pm
EDIT2: looking back at the historical data it has been going on since 4th of June
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