Comments by "Sareeye Ma Nusqaame" (@sareeyemanusqaame8723) on "Additional footage being reviewed in fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery" video.
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Cherie Cullum it has been hard to stay away from the community just not to attract unwanted attention and seen different kind of being. It has been between two different difficulty options, 1, stay within the community, stand out and deal with whatever negative label and reputation the community is given wether justified or unjustified and on top of that deal with the shortcomings of the community within or 2, go different part of the country where you are not known to belong in different community and you don’t have to deal whatever label or reputation was given to the community as a whole and live your life like the general population peacefully, quietly and without being pre-labeled and risk loneliness and being an outsider. I chose the later but it has been very very difficult. I been in the US 20 years and 5 days (since April 5, 2000) because of the Western culture, outlook on life, people to people relations aren’t genuinely welcoming life hasn’t been easy. I believe the Western culture is not to trust people and to always be suspicious of the next man where the rest of the world is automatically you are trusted and welcomed without reservations even though many times it backfires but that’s the common and mainstream culture, if one or two tricks and betrayals your trust there are 30s 50s and 100s of who will not betray you and will heal you to trust again but in the West is different everyone is selfish it’s me me and suspicion is the first opinion (this is at least my experience and believe) and it’s easily demonstrated even when you have the least interactions with people or even when you have no interactions at all like say you are walking on the side walk distracted by your own thoughts compenplating whatever that’s on your mind maybe fantasizing good things you’ll do in the future or how you want to improve your life and others and white lady happens to appear from the direction you are walking on the same sidewalk and she hastily crosses the road (as though you are chasing her and sometimes look back at you in case you might follow her) to the opposite side walk in order to avoid you. Or even worse you might be walking on the side walking and she happens walking ahead of you in the same direction and she becomes alarmed at the sight of you walking behind her, she keeps looking back at frightened and now you are uncomfortable and become frightened yourself by how frightened she got! Now what would supposed to do? Go back on your trails to avoid the situation and appease her, pray that you disappear in magical way? Or continue on your original route and maybe “prove” her suspicion?
Or maybe another scenario you are walking on the side walk on a quiet street enjoying the solitude and peace but as you walk you hear lock clicks of the car ahead of you and as you pass it you take a glance to see what it was and there’s some being baricated inside that’s not as bad as you and women walking on the side walk but still you are alerted and the message is unmistakable. You’ll asked yourself wtf did I do? I’m not mad at anyone but but that is not the best of welcoming.
I went to Kenya last year and stayed there for 8 months just to refuel and heal my soul, now that I’m back I want to prepare moving back to Somalia next 2, 3 or 5 years however long it needs to take hopefully by then “the war on terror” will fade away US will stop meddling and undermining Somalia, will stop hiring mercenaries to keep it in ruins in the name of “peacekeeping” and under the cover of “African Union peace keeping mission” hopefully US will stop carrying out drone attacks, remove its military bases inside Somalia and all around its neighboring countries, hopefully we can live in peace and hopefully, hopefully China will replace US as a global power and become economic power and US destructive policies would fade away to the distant and condemned history.
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