A Black Man Like Me (Part Two)

Archeological data with lucid fossils and stone – tools are abundant at people’s fingertips. While facts can cater to anyone who has a thirst for a true history. But nobody wants to buy the truth, when it is sour and against him. All men created equal. He born naked, he grows old and then he dies. Who controls the present, claims the past, and the future fame and glory. An Egyptian archeologist and philologist at Cairo University Dr. Farouk classify the word Gabooye as a lineal descendant of a noble blood and a ruling junta. While Pharaoh is the title name of a king in a specific period of time. We have to stand up and speak good of our minds. Face to face with the gap between the egalitarian ideals and biased ethnic prejudice and segregation. If you ask my divorcee widow about me. She would shower me with million dirty names; but few are true. We must stop the scourge of oppression and discrimination, not only in marriage but in all aspects of life. As a Somali man, I am a born loser desperate for help and attention. A Methodist with a God complex but had grown up insane. We need a yard – stick for the color – blind in our injustices and ethnic humiliation with no apparent reason. Everybody must pay the price for his moral – lapse in judgment. Because justices gives no one a second chance. Mr. Malcolm. X said, my mother used to say when I was a teenager. ” If you burn your ass, you sit on the blister. History has been whitened and blacks has been left out. The lie that has been told to generations of blacks and whites. Little innocent black children born of parents who believed that their race had no history, while they own a civilization as the pyramids. Little black children seeing before they could talk, that their parents considered themselves inferior. Mr. Malcolm continued saying, innocent little black children grown up, living their lives, dying old age and all their lives ashamed of being black.” debating is like being on a battlefield with intellectual and philosophical bullets. There is no place for moderation or disinterested objectivity when one’s freedom is at stake. You can’t negotiate upon freedom. You either fight for it, or shut up.
The culmination and ethnic cleansing, and segregation of the Gabooye community that had resulted a loss of millions of genius generations, is the most crossly shame in our social, political, and cultural upheaval in the modern history. It is a piercing thorn in our hearts that reflects our injustices and inhumanity. The ugly, heavy, and big lie that has been passed from one generation to another. Which proves that we are our own worst enemy. Reciting verses of our dark and bleak pages in front of the international community without feeling shame of ourselves. Even our colonial masters from Mogadishu are less severe and more moderate than we do. Regarding the practice of ethnic segregation and discrimination of the Gabooye Community. There is an old saying. ” It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubts. Our minds are playing tricks on us. A nigger claiming that he is more whiter than another Nigger. That is disgusting and a pitiful situation. What you do expect from a white judge and a black man in court? Say guilty ! Truth is God, Mr.Ghandi said. We must tell our kids, our neighbors, our relatives, our students, and ourselves. That we had lied up to the teeth. destroyed the evidences and twisted the paths of history with dressings of hate, oppression, and dreadful tangle of life. We must recognize the repugnant segregation that we did, must feel regret, and remorse; for committing an awful crime against humanity.
Islam is not a religion that needs publicity, nor commercial ads for advertisement, and promotion on televisions and Newspapers. It is a religion of equality and social justices. It is the cradle of peace and forgiveness, as it cleared on the verses of the Quran and the prophet’s teachings and sayings. But it has been polluted and associated with Arab’s Culture, which is full of contradictions, bigotry, injustices, and discriminations. After the 16th century the Somali people had been dominated by the Arab Culture; and regarded it as a Godfather since then. What is good for the goose, good for the gander. In the old days, we used to say that: South Africa teaches one thing and practices what it teaches. America teaches one thing, and practices another. So let me ask the Moslem scholars who does not believe that segregation and discrimination of the Gabooye Community is not a sin; and not a heavy crime in Allah’s legislation.
Does that mean that Islam teaches one thing and practice another? If you dare to say yes. Then, I tip you with an option of a striptease as a part – time job, after the Isha – prayers, and good bye with a kiss and a ring. If your answer is a plain ( No ). Then why you don’t condemn the teachings and practices of segregation and discrimination of this silent majority ? Our Imams and Scholars must be taken to a legal court. Charged with seduction of ethnic cleansing, kidnapping, and distorting religion’s teachings and concepts. Plus manipulation of illiterate minds, and polluting culture and ethics, for the purpose of the extermination of a certain ethnic group of the society. Charges of cover – up and corruption of conduct. Besides the serious mischief of aggravated assault and genocide. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every good word that proceed out of the mouth of the good God. I have grown up in Hargeisa where ignorance and ethnic segregation, injustices, humiliation, and contempt are practiced on daily bases. I was raised like most of you, among ignorant society that segregation, and discrimination of the Gabooye Community was taken for granted. Recalling and rewarding those old tapes of the past is a mind – numbing. There are some people who would say; let us debate until we are dead. Instead of starting forward the right thing and redressing the old cut – wounds of the moral – sapping neglect. Some people may feel uncomfortable with this cause and issue; others may see it as a fruitless publicity – hound. It is not too late yet, and the time is mature enough to introduce stabilization of good god’s teachings. Things need to move faster with more lofty – vision. It is a cleanup time. That Imam that sentences my girl friend to death by stone – throwing; when she wears a transparent bra for her boobies, and a tight sweater to charge my sexual desire. Or condemning the Lab – dancing of my cute girl next door. Had never said a word to condemn the ethnic cleansing and the humiliation of a genius generations of the Gabooye Community. That is a sharp truth that cuts and causes a great pain. But if you take the truth, it will cure you and save you from an otherwise certain death. The Gabooye Community are walking dead people who had been cut off from all their rights. They have been robbed deaf, dumb, and blind to the true knowledge of themselves. Accepting a society and a religion it’s Imam teaches that being a Gabooye is a curse. That is a bitter pill, hard to swallow. A resurrect upright people will be able to stand up and do something for healing the old wounds of the Gabooye Community. This racist nation that buried them alive. While there is no color, no religon, no culture, no language is dividing them. But an immoral conduct and abuse of human dignity separates us from one another, for centuries. Our budget of human dignity is in red ink. Let us cross our fingers and take a deep breath and remember Allah. Dear reader, a good heart can’t unite bananas with scattered leaves. They are very peaceful and law – abiding people. But to fight back in self- defence whenever, and wherever is a holy task and an ought duty for every Serious Somalilander. Remember that, nobody will respect the system or the law that excludes him. I disregard that idea that teaches, to love your enemy. When the Imam of the Mosque, the Traditional Leaders, and the Government bodies condemns the segregation, and discrimination of the Gabooye Community. Then we will hear out of those mountains of despair, a stone of hope transform the jangling of discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. Then we will pray together with good will, and stand up together for our freedom. John . F Kennedy said, this Nation was founded by men and women of many nations. It was founded on the principles that all human are equal, and that the rights of every person are diminished when the rights of one person are threatened. This Nation is a place of cheap political leaders who build their careers on immoral compromises and ally themselves with open forms of political, economical, and social exploitation. This is the same here nowadays in Somaliland especially in this new regime of Mr.Silanyo. Sweltering with the heat of injustices and with the heat of oppression. Judging people by the muscle of his tribe, not by the qualities of his character and noble ideas. But me, I will remain faithful and a new darling for this holy assignment of emancipating free – born – babies of my neighbor next door.
Part three will be continued next week.
Yusuf Deyr, Hargeisa