Two can play the ‘ndoti-ndoti’ game. But it’s not a national day of bigotry so I abstain. Still, we need to overstand that system change is not a rap battle. In fact, initiating the process is one thing - having to deal with nerves, especially of those who are emotionally attached to what was is another thing.
We cannot attain the change we desire if we keep cheering each other into foolishness, irresponsibility, insolence, and the use of very blinkered, condemnatory, and generalising comments like the following among others that I pieced from an awfully bigoted Facebook thread:
One said to the other: "...for them it’s like a Mandinka is ruling, so we have to make sure that we defend him at all cost, because they're the rightful rulers of this country." The other said: "I am utterly disgusted and knowing how we all defended them last year when Jammeh said the same thing to them..." then the sheep rudely stuck his oar in: “the green youths are far better than these people." Now, do you have to be a Shakespeare to infer reference of the pronouns? Egg-zact-ly!
All who is genuine must endeavour to dead these reckless appraisals by calling them what they are: condescending, narcissistic, not realistic... sheer emotions excited by frustrated senses of entitlement, that’s what they are. I was so disappointed that the above comments were made by people I once respected; little did I know they were just pretending to be against the valuation of people according to preconceptions.
It’s fucked up how a good number of us who claim to be politically open-minded are just a bunch of pseudo-liberals, evidenced by illiberal thoughts and tendencies like the excerpts above. If you think I’m lying, just resist their resistance, even if teasingly so, and see how their inclinations, prejudices and preferences in the closet will come all up on you like bees. But that’s it; patronage is a thing of the heart; you can’t hide it for long - it must out.
Before I finish, here’s free advice: it’s natural that when change occurs, some thoughts are overwhelmed by emotions of what was, some minds woken up, and some hearts broken. But because events in life are not recordings that you can playback, fast-forward or rewind anytime you want, it is best to press the play and savour every minute of the moment, of course not losing grip on the degree of focus required for the future.
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