If I had a Say...
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Safi Abdi
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Rated "G" by the Author.
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After Darkness comes the light
Ugliness versus splendor
Somalis as opposed to Somalia;
A land over which the stars multiply.
By contrast,
The scarcity is felt in the human population.
O Lord! I refuse not my fate
But I ask that you give me the patience
To endure this devaluation of the Somali breed.
(c) Safi Abdi, 2008, all rights reserved.
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| Reviewed by Amira van Kerk |
4/5/2008 |
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| Excellent ! |
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| Reviewed by Somali Community Access Network SomaliCAN |
3/9/2008 |
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Safi,
This hurts the feelings of all healthy Somalis, if any. The Somali breed is suffering from self-inflicted injuries of devaluation, depreciation, underestimation, and descrimination. Here in the US, we face stigma as blacks, immigrants, poor, and undereducated. We face language barriers, cultural shocks, religious differences, and lowly social class status. Yet all of this does not give us strength to come together and work in our collective interests and advocate for Somali rights. Instead, we're busy marginalizing each other through non-exisitent lines of descrimination.
I feel sad. sorry. hopeless. but this is my fate, not choice.
Thanks for this great wisdom, Ukht Safi
Abdullahi |
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| Reviewed by Randall Barfield |
3/6/2008 |
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| Brave and noble words. "I refuse not my fate". I love that. Cheers |
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| Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader) |
3/5/2008 |
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Oh F*** how easy it is for us just to see Somali as a thing on the newscast. Though through CSW their plight is not forgotten and my MP is not only aware but has hit the relevant offices in our govt.
I think Mogadishu. I think it was about the catastrophe with some 80,000 people fleeing Mogadishu in awful fighting and lack of food and other necessities. Sorry if I'm wrong. I do have a weird way of looking at this planet... This late at night the only way my brain can put it to paper is that if I were blind folded and shown England, I may say, WOW my England how special and beautiful you are, only then to be told I was in Iraq or Burma.
It is my programming that would make me say that. As I grow older I can see that it is not religion, other than 500 years ago that causes trouble, but governments. Yet to go to any country where the man on the street is not just like me...Bar France, lol.
Mans selfishness and labels ruins and run our lives. Just europe has enough wealth to wipe out poverty tomorrow, but the bigger picture is the govts that rule a piece of land that will be hear long after mankind has said adieu. Outside of labels, governments, greed and propaganda, there is no reason why we can't act like a mature civilisation, helping eachother. Every person has a lot to give and a right to live. |
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| Reviewed by bashir mohamed (Reader) |
3/5/2008 |
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Very touching, welldone again
Depressing truth about Somalia, Truth be told....
Still I am trying hard to figure out the answers of your questions:
Do we ( Somalis ) cry ? Do we have emotions like the other people?
Where is our common sense ? Will it ever prevail?
B.A.Mohamed in London (UK) |
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| Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado |
3/4/2008 |
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Excellent observations, Safi; brava!
(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in America, Karen Lynn in Texas. :( |
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