What Degree of Polarization?
In the old days, the Amharas of Ethiopia thought that they were the trustees of Ethiopian nationhood and patriotism and that the rest of the ‘riff-raff’ were there just to follow their (the Amharas) good example in caring for the Nation as a whole. The Amharas were The Ethiopians. The rest of the people were “ethnic” entities under the grip of tribal, confessional and other primordial afflictions, which had to be managed and guided by the guardians of the Nation. In regard to Eritrea, and in spite of the presence of manipulative and powerful bad leaders and teachers amidst us, we still wish to believe that our people have not descended to that low level. However, the authors of statements like rotten ethnic and confessional factions and the like are widely understood, or perceived by their followers, to be sending these descriptive messages clearly directed to certain segments of our people so that the we and they compartmentalization could have its own life. For sure we are not a uniq
