From: biyyaoromo@gmail.com (ona)
Subject: The purpose of critism
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:38:20 -0600
We criticize an organization or an individual to help them improve what they are doing wrong. To do that we need to carefully analyze what had been done or said and determine how we are going to give them positive feedback. So far, the things we say about someone or about a group of individuals is based on assumptions that anyone who made a mistake is bad, and those who speak in the name of the TRUTH are good, even when the story teller can be wrong. For example, I have listed to a PALTALK audio Qaasim Sheimo that has posted for us and all it is trash talking. The man kept says that he trusts Jafar and doesn’t trust those whom he called “Warra Wallagga.”
Over whole, the underling argument this man was making is similar to what the TPLF had been saying about the OLF for years now. So, I wonder why Qasim Sheimo decided to overlook the enemy like argument the man had been engaged in for a long time. This is not the first time Qasim posted this man’s talk. Shouldn’t Qssim draw what implications such outright hate might have on the Oromo liberation struggle?
If Qasim’s objective is to help the OLF improve its mistakes, why doesn’t he write about the weakness he had observed and recommend what step need to be taken to improve the error? What needs to be understood is that the OLF is a system put together long time ago and it will remain to exist as long as the Oromo people exist.
Questioning whether or not this system is functioning properly as intended is one thing, but it is another matter to defame the men who took the responsibility of doing what they can. Simply put, condemning this system at any cost is something that freedom loving Oromo should support. Any system, big or small need to be supported be it is set up by Gen. Galchu or by Dawud Ibsa. We have no morale ground to talk about any organization if we contribute nothing to any of them.
For example, we’ve heard everyone claiming to have a role in the recent revolution that engulfed the Tigre colonialism in Oromia and yet, we’ve witnessed that the same men collecting funds in the name of the wounded kids of Oromia and used it or kept it in their personal bank accounts. It is such a rotten and stinky political culture what made us refugees, beggars, prostitutes and worth less than the Arab Dogs. Unless the so called educated speak up against these weird loud speaking ignorant cow herders who end up in western countries by using the Oromo liberation movement as a tool, we will remain in our current worthless social positions.
In the past, I have read on this forum someone writing that Kamal Galchu has multiple wives. My response to such criticism was that it is none of our business because we are not Saudi Arabian sex police men. What we need to be concerned with is whether the system Galchu was in charge is working for all of us. If we feel it isn’t, we can criticize the system so that Gen. Galchu will improve it for the sake of all of us.
So, let’s ask ourselves: What is the nature of the story the man in the Paltalk audio was trying to tell and why? What are this man’s qualifications to even analyze the issue he was talking about? What are the significance of the matter he was addressing? What are this man’s objectives? How is going to achieve his goal? By finding ways to destroy the OLF or by helping them improve their mistakes? After all, he doesn’t sound as an expert on anything for that matter!
For me, I see a huge lack of knowledge, lack of honesty and lack of integrity in what the man in the audio has been saying. All I kept hearing is a pure assumption based on hate. For example, the man keeps saying “Warra Wallagga” … “Warra Horroo“, etc. and I see evil in such thinking because such assumptions are full of biases that affect the validity of his argument.
One thing is clear here. People say things for different reasons. For example, there are those whose brain works based on the programming done to it when they were young. Such men and women call themselves and the rest of us, Ethiopians, warra Shawaa, warraa Wallagga, etc. They just can’t refrain from saying these words because their brains are conditioned. These habitual and cowardly animals who are afraid that something will happen to them if they don’t echo the words their masters programmed their brains with. Shawaa, Wallagga, east, west, south, north east, words are used by the colonizing forces of Oromia so do their subjects. The same thing is true about those who had to wear what their master wear, look exactly the way their masters look like, sit or stand just like who molded their inferior souls. Anyway, let’s evaluate the background facts or issues that led this man speak in such manner before we take a position saying everything this man had been venting is correct!
The Amhara protest
I also read some people exaggerating the success of the Amhara protest by comparing what the Oromians have done during the protest. To begin with, the Oromo movement had been world-wide and there is no spot the protest didn’t reach in Oromia. In Amhara case, it is one Warada that made news and there were no world-wide protests. Regarding the gun shooting we’ve seen on our Facebooks, etc., we should not forget the fact that Gondar is bordering with Sudan as opposed to land locked Oromia. This is to say that physical geography has a major impact on limiting gun inflow. Qimanti (Humara) or north has always been the site of conflict because of its geographic location and the Habasha culture that promoted conflict. In addition to that, the TPLF has given the Walqaayit and Xagadee people semi autonomy advantage and they never disarmed the north as opposed to what they did in Jalduu, Gindabarat or Caliyaa.
Of course, Oromia has many meandering rivers and high hills from where we can fight our enemy but several factors that are weakening our ability to be organized need to be solved first. Among these challenges found our tribalism, envy, jealousy and ignorance. More than the TPLF guns, it is ignorance what is destroying our fabric as a society.