I think a lack of dignity in adversity does not help our case. It causes us to lose credibility.I am not saying that noble abnegation and a quite acceptance of suffering are the right attitude. I do not aspire to sainthood, especially on behalf of other people. But we need to get out of this whining routine.
Things were done to us, true. We should remember them so that
1)We can recognise and fight them if any attempt is made to repeat them,
2)We will know why we are the world’s unwashed armpit, and
3)We can assess honestly where we went wrong.
Yes, we did do wrong. Though we did not invite the evils, and our own faults do not necessarily justify the evils being committed, our inability to counter these evils is also based on failures on our part. Did our chiefs not sell rivals and prisoners of war into slavery? Did we ourselves not own slaves? Do we not treat our women in much the same way as more powerful nations treat us?
via Global Voices
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