May 30, 2012 (QOL) I like the quotes that states (the Middle East is the home of civilization, more specifically Egypt) and I strongly support that. When you look at the civilians and how they value their customs, norms and their culture, you definitely feel the gaps between our people and them. If you look at the productivity of the entire world you will be able to see the role of the patriotic Arabs and how strictly they put their country before anything. And we've been able to witness the winds of freedom currently blowing across the Arab world.

It's obvious that when you encounter problems, our mental tries to carry out activities to tackle the problems. It's very true that if we say, self-denial have relation with existed problem via pro-claiming or searching an alternative to claim an identity that you don’t belong to.
Such claims are mainly caused by: fear, lack of confidence, weakness and unable to endure the difficulties.

It is for that reason, when you ask a pro-Meles Somali Ogaden man about his identity, he will call himself "ethiopian". Why is this man in self-denial? If you read about the civil rights struggle in America, you can find significant similarities. Many black americans hated their african characteristics. They detested their hair, detested the shape of their nose and wanted one of those long, dog-like noses, they hated the color of their skin and would rather bleach their skin. The black color became a chain, and a prison and felt that all of these restrictions were based solely upon their skin color.

And the psychological reaction to that would have to be that as long as the black people felt imprisoned or chained or trapped by their skin, and only because that was holding them back, he automatically hated himself and the mental control was wide-spread.

In the same way, is the Somali Ogaden man denying his history, his people and his blood. And when someone is denying where he comes from in order to not feel "left out", you know that he is facing the worst form oppression.
Today we have "leaders" who sell out our people for just a few crumbs of token recognition and token gains and they are pleased with token victories and token progress because they themselves are nothing but token leaders.

Because of the profitable game of misleading and exploiting the people, if you say to Somali Ogaden man that he is Ogaden,it makes him feel inferior; it makes him feel inadequate. And when he fells like a victim, to this feeling of inadequacy or inferiority or helplessness, he turns to somebody else to show him the way. The black man, back in the in the days, who hated himself, portrayed the white man as his master, the same thing is the Somali Ogaden man doing putting Zenawi in that position.


He don't have confidence in another Ogaden man to show him the way.
This dangerous mental control, is a result of why he is being thought that Ogaden people cant't rule their own country. And it is the same reason why the so called " intellectuals'" say Ogaden people can't unite. Since it will be a "clash" between X tribe and Y tribe. Truth be told, they say Ogadeni people can't unite because they don't want Somali Ogadeni people to unite. Ethiopia is ruled by propaganda, painting democracy that doesn't exist. Political awareness, which until very recently was latent, is now becoming manifest and assuming outward expression, and it will assert itself even more forcefully in the years to come.
We have to destroy the system, that sucks blood and that makes the Ogaden man think he is inferior. The mind is everything. What you think you become. When we become freedom, we will have the ability to break coercive persuasion, and mental control.

Written by

Sharezad F Gaas
Abdullahi Ahmed