I realized this weekend that I am fighting a losing battle, I am fighting a people who eat Miqegnenet Layer Cake. Thus I am writing a separation letter to my community, a sort of a final farewell, because it hit me last night that I was fighting a Tsunami of self-colonization and self-loathing that I cannot undo in my lifetime. Miqegnenet means envy and self-loathing, it is a pernicious trait of Habesha where they NEVER give credit or help another person out for fear of being a lesser person for it. Miqegnenet is a virus more lethal than Ebola and deadlier than HIV, now you understand why Ethiopian issues of concern will NEVER go viral—it is because we are infected with a germ called Miqegnenet and we are dying because of it. I say this at the risk of sounding manic or egotistical, but I am a DOPE writer, yet I only have 498 followers on twitter… [read more]