“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is a progress and working together is success
Henry Ford.
Yesterday I talked about division as our first reason to why black people are not becoming Successful, today is a continuation to that reason which brings us to reason number 2
Valuing Tribes more than Humanity.
“Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we’re divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
Haile Selassie
Yesterday I talked about whites coming to our nation and destroying us by first dividing us. It became easy for them to divide us then conquer us because we were already divided as tribes. We allowed tribal lines to be thick and visible between us and they saw it and used it against us.
The wars against them came, Zimbabweans, not tribes, fought them united and defeated them but soon after, I don’t know if it was hunger for power or selfishness, tribal lines were drawn again. The same mistake that had us enslaved has been repeated again. Haile says, above all we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. This is true. Tribalism is a pitfall that opens doors to foreign intervention that leads to harmful consequences.
Tribes are important because they bear our cultures which are the most meaningful things about who we are and where we’re coming from, it bears our roots. However it’s not more important than Humanity, unity, tranquillity, love and oneness. What’s a tribe without humanity? Tribalism is emphasised but not well taught no wonder western culture has taken over and tribal hurt is the only cultural practice left because we emphasise the wrong thing. This make the foreign intervention a way more easier, just like what’s happening now, Trump making us dance to his sanctions tune.
The most important thing is humanity and unity over tribal emphasis. If only we could use the name Zimbabwean for anyone who’s from this nation then we’ll see how successful we become together.
When I began today I used the above quote from Henry Ford and that makes a lot of sense. When a nation is one and they stay together without emphasising tribal differences there’s progress. That same progress then leads to working together. Working together makes people see how powerful they’re as the team, no one will have to leave the nation to get help and strength from other nations. Together we can. Together we become successful. The nation has the talent and strength it needs to become noticeable, all that’s needed is unity and working together, start initiatives that emphasises togetherness.
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