- Title: [SW Column] [dehai-news] WHITE MAN'S WORLD!
- From:[]
- Date :[29 May 2000]
BORN BLACK IN THIS WHITE MAN’S WORLD!
Dear Mr. US, Mrs. UN and family,
That was my first and initial mistake in life. Ironically, I
did not
have a choice. I was born of proud black origin in a fucking racist
world
designed for the white man. All the experience and the constitutions
reflect
the thinking of our fathers – THAT THIS WAS TO BE A WORLD BY
WHITE PEOPLE AND
FOR WHITE PEOPLE. BLACKS AND ALL OTHER NON-WHITE PEOPLE WERE TO BE THE
BURDEN
BEARERS FOR THE REAL CITIZENS OF THIS EARTH.
This is the conclusion
that I have gathered at my tender age of 22. This is not such a healthy
thought
for someone so young, is it Mr. US and Mrs. UN??? Especially to people
like
yourselves who are trying to promote harmony and peace in this world.
But I
don’t give a damn because YOU ALL made this happen and I wish I
could make you
pay. You want to know what I am about. Of course not, but I will state
it nonetheless.
I am a proud Eritrean living outside my beloved country of
Eritrea;
watching, hoping and waiting to exhale at the news of PEACE. Has that struck a fucking
bell yet, Mr
& Mrs Peace Negotiators?? Why would it, right? After all, what is
Eritrea??
I cannot stand back and just wait anymore. It is tearing me up
inside….They say “Don’t let this cruel world get to
you” but you know what… it
has hit too close to home this time. And something has to give…
Is this going
to solve the problem? Of course not, but it will lighten the heartache
and pain
I feel and which is reflected in every Eritrean alive today. You are
fucking
pigs and I hate you!
Staring at walls of silence, trapped inside this fucking cage,
my
country and its people cried out to you – “Help us FREE our
black nation”. In
return, you ignorant bastards, you did nothing. Eritrea is not big, and
being
born with less in May 1991, had already been through 30 years of
bloodshed and
horrifying memories for the sake of FREEDOM and PEACE for its people.
As a
result, it wanted nothing more than the silence of peace and dreams of
prosperity. Seven years later, gunshots can be heard once again in my
homeland.
At this point you might like to
read up on
the endless documentation that is almost certainly stacked on your
desks
regarding this event if you don’t know what I am talking
about.
This time though, unlike the last, Eritrea is not willing to go
to war.
It feels that it cannot cope with the misery and the stress anymore.
There is
no room for choice though, because our silly foes are prepared for war.
The
enemy disguised this war with a border dispute, but if you had been
doing your
homework, it would be obvious to see that this senseless war has
surpassed that
scope of reasoning. Ethiopia has plunged into civilian territories very
far
away from the disputed border areas. As a member of the fucking UN (not
that it
has made any difference), are we not protected by the guidelines which refer to our invasion by
neighbouring
countries??? Meanwhile, family members back home (young and old), those
so
close to my heart, are performing the honourable deed of defending the
homeland,
which belongs equally to all Eritreans. While you fuck around to decide
on the
next steps of talks, some of those will perish senselessly…
Eritrea obliged to
every peace proposal allocated and even deported troops out of disputed
areas.
As for Ethiopia, what does it want??? We all know it’s not just a
border
dispute anymore, but you turn a blind eye! Let me spell it out to
you…. If
Ethiopia, with the help of the rest of the world could have their way,
it would
accomplish a genocide of the Eritrean race. While you buy more time,
Ethiopia
is acquiring more hi-tech weapons and strategically deciding which
civilian
town to attack next.
Eritreans have never knelt down before and we never will, but
this time
we asked for your intervention, because we wanted to have a peaceful
end to
this, the most senseless of all wars. What has been your response and
efforts
thus far? What have you to show?? Absolutely nothing! You have been
engaged in
bullshit peace proposals the whole of the past 2 years and you are
still
carrying on. The last two weeks, hundreds of thousands of innocent
people have
been dying and still you stand and watch. What the fuck are you waiting
for???
Have you fucking placed a bet on the final outcome that you are waiting
to see
the result?? What is wrong with you all?? I can understand the white
majority,
because I’m sure you’re loving the scenery at the moment.
From a distance, you
see two poor black nations in the African continent fighting each
other,
killing one another, and destroying one another. It is not worth your
bother.
And we are sorry we asked you – you fucking pigs! But what about
the black
people involved in this fucked up, rigged, peace process. Can you not
take some
kind of reaction? Surely, there is enough going on, enough evidence to
intervene you corrupt bastards! You are all waiting to see our nation
left
bleeding to perish for its family to see, right?? Thereafter, we can
all ask
questions “Why?” and shed tears. This will never happen. It
doesn’t work like
that. You have chosen the wrong set of people for that scenario, and
time will
prove that only too clearly.
I can’t help but feel that my people, my country have
been surrounded,
stranded, left to the mercy of the tragedy that is written to befall
them. Two
nations , Pakistan and Libya alone spoke out in support, but
unfortunately were
not heard. The rest of the world, as they have done to us all through
our
history, are playing the bystander roles.
You did not stand by and watch when Kuwait asked for help, you
did not
stand by and watch when Kosovo asked for help, and you did not stand by
and
watch when East Timor asked for help. What about Eritrea?? Did we ask
in the
wrong manner?? Are we missing something here? The answer is NO! Put
simply, you
don’t give a fucking rat’s ass about us and what happens to
us!
Well, that’s alright! We will fight on and we will
prevail you
heartless pigs! I’ll wait for the day when the roles reverse and
all the black
nations rise above the white and we become supreme rulers. I cannot
wait to be
so heartless and inflict so much misery unto you that you have stood by
and
watch done to us. This is my dream but at least I am still entitled to
that! “Through every black night,
there’s a bright day after
that”.
We hope to raise our young nation in this world of greed
because you
see, currency means nothing if you still aren’t free. So in
conclusion, thanks
for nothing you fucking pigs!
Temesgen Zerighaber.
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